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Maris

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 04:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- O.J. Simpson -- acquitted in 1995 in the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman -- is preparing for his debut as the star of his own "Osbournes"-esque reality show.

Fort Worth, Texas-based Urban America Television Network said it will distribute a 13-week series about the former football great to its 75 independent broadcast TV station affiliates starting in June, according to a story in The Hollywood Reporter.

The series will chronicle Simpson's daily life in Miami using footage collected over several months of filming in 2001 and 2002.

Simpson maintains he did not commit the crimes and has said he thinks the case eventually will be solved.

Following the criminal trial, Simpson was sued by both families of the victims in civil court. The families were awarded $33.5 million in damages in 1997.

Since the trials, Simpson and his children have been living near Miami on a $4 million pension earned with money from his careers in sports, acting and television pitchman. Such pensions are exempt from civil court judgments.

In December 2001, federal agents searched Simpson's house and nine other area homes as part of an investigation into a drug, theft and money-laundering ring.

Simpson was at home during the search and no large amounts of money or drugs were found, his attorney said at the time. Simpson was not involved in the ring, the attorney said.

In October 2001, Simpson was acquitted of charges stemming from an alleged road-rage argument. He was accused of grabbing eyeglasses from a driver's face and scratching him.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/23/simpson/index.html

Tabbyking

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 04:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
like i'm gonna be watching.......not!
they were discussing this on bob and tom this morning. doesn't sound like a nielsen rating topper at this point!

Max

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 04:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Who on earth would air this?! What companies would buy ad space during this?! (Maybe a knife company or someone who makes gloves? ) Who on earth would WATCH this?!

Oh my heck!

Seamonkey

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 05:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Really.. I wouldn't watch this if it was on all however many hundred channels I have.. too many good books in the world for that.

Maris

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 05:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I know its a little bizarre. I cant imagine anyone watching it.

Episode One, OJ on golf cart looking for killer, Episode Two, OJ and Paula wiping white powder from their noses
Episode three, OJ and Johnnie Cochran on golf cart looking for killer
Episode four, OJ and Barry Sheck on golf course yelling where is it Mr. Fung
Episode Five, OJ hires Rosa and she wears her famous blue dress
Episode Six, Kato Kaelin drives oj to burger king (nudge nudge wink wink)

Yankee_In_Ca

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 05:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I just looked up the Urban America TV Network. Here's a link to their affiliates:

http://www.urban-america-tv.com/affiliates/

Doesn't really look that widespread to me, but maybe it is...? While they have some big markets, the channel positions look very poor to me...

This smacks of a publicity ploy to me, to get people to go find out about their TV network (people like me who just went to their website having never heard of them). I lay 100 to 1 odds that within the week, they announce that they decided not to do the series. By then, their mission would be accomplished (getting people to know about their network).

Maybe I'm wrong, but my gut tells me I'm not.

Hippyt

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 05:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG,ROFL Maris!!!!!!

Tabbyking

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 05:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
maris, did they not go visit mark fuhrman in idaho for some great fishing on episode 7?! lol

Tabbyking

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 05:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
if they took the slow bronco blanco, they could stretch it to episode 8, too!

Maris

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 06:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
yes how could I forget

Episode 7, OJ goes to Idaho to visit mark furhman. Brings him a housewarming gift of one pair of extra large Isotoner Aris Light gloves. Mark is so pleased and following his great success of solving the murder in Greenwich, Mark agrees to help oj look for the killer.

They take out a rowboat with Detective Van Adder and Lange and dredge the lake to look for the knife.

Seamonkey

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 06:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yale Galanter, OJ's attorney told Catherine Crier on Court TV that OJ knew nothing about it, that these guys filmed while he was involved in some music tour?? Whatever, but supposedly it was announced but they haven't even tried to get permission from OJ and of course OJ would think he was "worth" much more than these guys can pay him..

Whatever..

Scorpiomoon

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 06:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This is just disgusting.

Tvjunkie

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 11:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL @ Maris!

Who would want to watch him? There's one show I don't have to worry about taping.

Twinkie

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 11:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I certainly will not watch this. I hope he doesn't ever see a dime from it and if he does it should go directly to the Goldmans and Browns.
Jerk. (and that's being polite)

Crazydog

Thursday, April 24, 2003 - 07:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Absolutely repulsive. Whatever happened to his vow to never stop hunting for the "real killer"? On CNN.com, around 100,000 people responded to the online poll and over 90% said they will not be watching. I've never seen a CNN poll that one-sided.

Everyone has to die eventually, and IMO O.J. has a reservation for eternity in a particularly warm destination.

Ryn

Thursday, April 24, 2003 - 12:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Was listening to the news on the radio, OJ has stated he will not be part of any "Reality" show.

Crazydog

Thursday, April 24, 2003 - 01:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
But it's not up to him, apparently this is all old footage. In re-reading the article this show will not be on a major network but rather it will be on independent stations which I read as UPN or worse. So there's not much of an audience there to begin with.

What studio executive ever thought people would want to watch him? I guess they looked at Anna Nicole and thought of another controversial person they could model a show after. The difference is that most people don't like Anna Nicole but think she's so pathetically hilarious they watch her. But the majority of people seem to have nothing but contempt for O.J.

Texannie

Thursday, April 24, 2003 - 02:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2972111.stm

A United States TV station is planning a 13-part reality series starring OJ Simpson - but the former sport and movie star himself knows nothing about it.
A Florida cable and satellite company wants to use footage of Simpson at hip-hop concerts.

But Simpson's lawyer Yale Galanter said they could not bill it as his show because his client was not involved.

"He's not in a show," Mr Galanter, said. "They can't have a reality TV show and call it the OJ Simpson TV show without our involvement."

The 13 hour-long episodes are expected to be shown by the Urban Television Network Corporation, which reaches 20 million homes.

On its website, the channel said it had "been approached by a group in Florida about the possibility of airing an OJ Simpson mini-documentary based upon footage taken in 2000 and 2001."

Show is 'coming'

The footage was filmed by Miami production company Spiderboy International.

"We've got everything done, the reality show is coming," Spiderboy founder Norman Pardo said.

Much of the footage will let viewers see Simpson, who starred in the Naked Gun comedies, interacting with the public, Mr Pardo said.

When OJ stepped on stage it was unbelievable, the crowd went crazy

Norman Pardo, Spiderboy, talking about 2001 concert
Mr Galanter said Simpson had signed no contract and received no money so he could take no action.

Spiderboy said it had "been placing OJ Simpson in various public locations around the US" to film him.

The company sponsored a string of concerts at which Simpson appeared alongside stars like Wyclef Jean, Lil' Mo, Noreaga and Foxy Brown.

After one show in 2001, Mr Pardo said: "When OJ stepped on stage it was unbelievable, the crowd went crazy chanting his name 'OJ OJ OJ'."

Simpson agreed to appear free as a favour to Spiderboy, Mr Pardo said.

Simpson has not worked since being cleared of murdering ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994.

A civil jury later held him liable, meaning any money he makes could be seized to pay the remainder of the $33.5m (£21m) compensation to the victims' survivors.

Texannie

Thursday, April 24, 2003 - 02:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/


OJ Simpson hasn't agreed to participate in reality TV show starring himself.
A small satellite TV network announced earlier this week that it had plans to produce a reality TV show that would follow OJ Simpson Osbournes-style. Marcia Clark even called it "macabre." There's one little problem: OJ hasn't agree to participate in the program, which apparently focuses on OJ "at hip-hop concerts." Then again, that may not be a problem, since the production company, Spiderboy, says it has "been placing OJ Simpson in various public locations around the US" and then filming the results, according to the BBC. And Entertainment Weekly reports that the company already has "13 weeks worth of episodes" finished. They were "shot during the last two years, [and] will premiere in June on the network's 75 independent broadcast outlets, which reach 22 million homes." OJ's lawyers tell the BBC that OJ is "not in a show," while The LA Times quotes his lawyer as saying, "If they think clips of O.J. have commercial value, more power to them. But we haven't been asked to narrate them or edit them or comment on them. Nor would we."

Maris

Thursday, April 24, 2003 - 02:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Simpson Has No Plans for Reality Show

O.J. Simpson Won't Star in Reality Show, Would 'Love to' Be a Commentator on Blake Murder Trial

The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES April 24 —
Contrary to widely circulated reports, O.J. Simpson said Thursday he won't be the star of a reality television show, but might consider becoming a news commentator for actor Robert Blake's murder trial.

"I have no plans in any way to do a reality show even though people have approached me about it," Simpson said in a telephone interview from his Miami home. "I'm not looking to do anything. I don't have agents out there looking for something for O.J."

Simpson said he's been contacted about a reality show that would chronicle his day-to-day life but he's not interested.

"There's no plans in the Simpson family to have any cameras coming in our house," he said.

But Simpson said he knows where the new reports came from: He's aware of video footage shot during his travels to a series of hip-hop concerts in 2001 and 2002.

"To be honest, this footage would get pretty boring," he said. "Maybe for a half-hour it would be interesting but not for a series."

He said the videos show him arriving at airports, signing autographs and talking at hip-hop concerts.

"I had a lot of fun," he said. "We were welcomed everywhere. But this was not meant to be shown anywhere except as rebuttal to those who say I'm a pariah."

Urban Television Network Corp., a Fort Worth, Texas, satellite and cable channel, and Miami production company Spiderboy International said they're planning to create 13 one-hour episodes of the show using archived footage of Simpson.

"We've got everything done, the reality show is coming," Spiderboy founder Norman Pardo said Wednesday. But Simpson's lawyer said he hadn't been contacted about it.

Urban America has about 70 affiliates and reaches 22 million households.

As for commenting on the Blake case, he said TV outlets have contacted him, but he declined to name them.

"I'd love to do it," he said. "I think I have a lot of insight. I don't know if he's guilty or not but I know there's no such thing anymore as innocent until proven guilty."

Blake is accused of murdering wife Bonny Lee Bakley in Los Angeles in 2001. He's free on $1.5 million bail and is scheduled for trial in October.

Simpson, a football Hall of Famer, was tried and acquitted of murder after the 1994 slayings of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, but a civil jury later held him liable and ordered him to pay the victims' survivors $33.5 million. He hasn't worked since then because any money he makes could be seized to satisfy that judgment, which remains largely unpaid.

"I'm well aware of my situation," he said Thursday. "I didn't commit the crime and I don't think these people deserve anything. I'm not putting myself in a position of having to give them anything."

Happymom

Friday, April 25, 2003 - 12:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
disgusting

Wcv63

Friday, April 25, 2003 - 07:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Quote:

He hasn't worked since then because any money he makes could be seized to satisfy that judgment, which remains largely unpaid.

"I'm well aware of my situation," he said Thursday. "I didn't commit the crime and I don't think these people deserve anything. I'm not putting myself in a position of having to give them anything."




Could this speak any louder about his character?

Dahli

Friday, April 25, 2003 - 10:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
or lack thereof...

Magikearth

Saturday, April 26, 2003 - 03:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Exactly,Dahli.
There's really no words to describe him.
Well,there are,but I think I'd be moderated.

Holly11

Sunday, April 27, 2003 - 04:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just happen to run across this and I can tell you that I will not be watching OJ. I really cannot believe this could happen. Let's just hope that many Americans will feel like us.