Court TV to bring OJ Simpson trial back to TVs
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Michelle Clancy
| 29 July 2019

Court TV is planning a 37-part docuseries on the OJ Simpson trial, slated to air in 2020.

The series, OJ25, represents the network’s first original effort and will mark the 25th anniversary of the trial. The show will contextualise the main events of the trial, with each episode coinciding with the same week 25 years earlier, according to the network.

It will also have exclusive new interviews with the key players in the case will take people behind-the-scenes of the trial, providing fresh perspective and insight on legal strategies and maneuverings, missteps, lost opportunities and more, according to Court TV.

Hosting the series will be legal analyst Roger Cossack, who has appeared frequently on ESPN and truTV, will host the series.

Court TV is devoted to live coverage, in-depth legal reporting and expert analysis of the nation’s important and compelling trials. It recently returned to TV screens after a hiatus.

“Mining the vast Court TV library of more than a thousand trials provides the new opportunity to tell compelling true-crime stories and create captivating content supporting our live, gavel-to-gavel coverage of the country’s top current trials,” said Jonathan Katz, president and CEO of Katz Networks , which owns and operates Court TV.