So the O.J. Simpson "If I Did It (nudge nudge, wink wink)" specials and book are cancelled. Not surprising. I am curious, of course, to know if the same kind of money is still going to him or his kids or wherever it was going. Also, is the book cancelled or is Harper-Collins merely washing its hands of it? One assumes that there'll be some publisher out there eager to publish…or that at the very least, copies of the text will leak onto Ye Olde Internet.
Assuming the money is still being paid, I don't know that this is "good news" or (at least) as good as it would have been for the shows and book to appear and then be shunned and ignored. But there is something nice in the fact that it'll be quite some time before any respectable company thinks of getting into business with Simpson.
And was there really a "confession" involved in any of this? Did Simpson confess or was that something Judith Regan and her associates exaggerated in order to hype an ambiguous, highly speculative account of the murders? You have to wonder if the reason they cancelled the whole, sordid ball of wax was that someone in Rupert Murdoch's office looked over the shows and read the book and said, "We're selling this as Simpson's confession. If it was that, we'd go ahead with it…but it isn't enough of a confession to get us off the moral hook."