OJ: Made in America: ABC Docu-Series Begins in June

ABC has announced its documentary series, OJ: Made in America, from Ezra Edelman, premieres Saturday, June 11, at 9:00pm. The series is executive produced by John Dahl, Libby Geist, and Connor Schell.

ABC says:

“O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA – PART 1” – PREMIERES SATURDAY, JUNE 11

It is the defining cultural tale of modern America – a saga of race, celebrity, media, violence, and the criminal justice system. And two decades after its unforgettable climax, it continues to fascinate, polarize, and even, yes, develop new chapters. Now, the producers of ESPN’s “30 for 30” have made it the subject of their most ambitious project yet. From Peabody and Emmy-award winning director Ezra Edelman, it’s “O.J.: Made in America,” a seven-hour, 45-minute documentary coming this summer to ABC and ESPN.

Here is more from IMDb:

It is the defining cultural tale of modern America – a saga of race, celebrity, media, violence, and the criminal justice system. And two decades after its unforgettable climax, it continues to fascinate, polarize, and even, yes, develop new chapters. Now, the producers of ESPN’s award-winning “30 for 30” have made it the subject of their first documentary-event and most ambitious project yet. From Peabody and Emmy-award winning director Ezra Edelman, it’s “O.J.: Made in America,” a 10-hour multi-part production coming summer of 2016. To most observers, it’s a story that began the night Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were brutally murdered outside her Brentwood apartment. But as “O.J.” lays bare, to truly grasp the significance of what happened not just that night, but the epic chronicle to follow, one has to travel back to a much different, much earlier origin point, at not the end, but the beginning of the 20th century, when African-Americans began migrating to California … [Written by ESPN Films].

More than twenty years after Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were killed, their murders are getting a lot of TV coverage. The first season of the FX crime anthology TV series, which recently concluded was American Crime Story: The People Vs. OJ Simpson.

Last month, Investigation Discovery ordered the Hard Evidence: OJ Is Innocent TV series, narrated by Martin Sheen. That series is expected to bow in 2017.

What do you think? Do you plan to watch ABC’s OJ: Made in America TV show? How many OJ-related shows will the audience accept, before changing the channel? Tell us.