10 Banned TV Shows That Shocked The World
6. Humanity Prevails, O.J. Simpson's Murder Confession Deemed "Tasteless" - If I Did It
If I Did It was a planned cross-media project in which O.J. Simpson offered an apparently hypothetical explanation for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, of which Simpson was of course accused and acquitted.
If I Did It was both a book ghostwritten by Pablo Fenjves and a TV special intended to air on Fox to coincide with the book's scheduled release, the latter featuring extensive video interviews with Simpson about how he "would've" committed the murders.
On the eve of their November 2006 release and airing, though, Fox opted to abandon both projects, citing pressure from Fox station owners and the fast-mounting avalanche of bad PR.
The book was eventually published in a revised form after the rights were transferred to Goldman's family - preventing Simpson from profiting off of it - and though the TV specials never aired in their entirety, segments were broadcast by Fox earlier this year. These excerpts were widely interpreted as Simpson basically confessing to the killings.