O.J. ‘CONFESSION’ TO FINALLY AIR:
A CONTROVERSIAL interview with O.J. Simpson is set to air next week — a dozen years after Fox pulled it.
“O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession” — airing March 11 at 8 p.m. on Fox — will focus on a 2006 interview the former NFL running back had with publisher Judith Regan to promote the book “If I Did It.”
It was canceled after backlash over the book, which took a “hypothetical” look at the murders of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, which Simpson was acquitted of committing in 1995.
The upcoming special, hosted by Soledad O’Brien, will be “no-holds-barred,” according to Fox. And Simpson, “in his own words, offers a detailed — and disturbing — description of what might have happened on that fateful night of June 12, 1994,” according to the network.
Five days later, on June 17, after first agreeing to turn himself in to police, then fleeing in a Ford Bronco which led to a wild police chase, he eventually surrendered at his Brentwood, Calif., home.
After the so-called “Trial of the Century,” Simpson was found not guilty.
The Regan interview was axed at the time by Fox boss Rupert Murdoch after criticism from the families of Brown and Goldman, who are apparently now on board, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The special will air with domestic-violence awareness public service announcements during its limited commercial breaks, according to Variety.