--- description: O.J. Simpson will not be watching his legal drama unfold in FX’s miniseries on his case because his prison doesn’t get the TV channel. title: O.J. Simpson Won’t Be Watching 'The People v. O.J. Simpson' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt478854d0cb89137b/69887bdee20a875adfa8f572/oj-simpson.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # O.J. Simpson Won’t Be Watching _The People v. O.J. Simpson_  by [Melissa Chan](/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 2, 2016 11:43 PM CUT  O.J. Simpson watches his former defense attorney Yale Galanter testify during an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court on May 17, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. O.J. Simpson watches his former defense attorney Yale Galanter testify during an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court on May 17, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Ethan Miller-Getty Images  by [Melissa Chan](/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 2, 2016 11:43 PM CUT O.J. Simpson will [not be watching his legal drama unfold](http://www.thewrap.com/why-o-j-simpson-wont-be-watching-people-v-o-j-simpson/ "undefined") Tuesday in FX’s miniseries on his high-profile case because his prison doesn’t get the TV channel. The Lovelock Correction Institution in Nevada, where Simpson is serving a sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping, has cable but doesn’t have FX, a facility spokesperson told TheWrap. FX is premiering [_The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story_](http://time.com/4202124/oj-simpson-fx-people-v-oj-simpon/ "undefined"), which follows Simpson’s 1994-5 murder trial, on Tuesday. The program, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as Simpson, is based on _New Yorker_ writer Jeffrey Toobin’s 1996 book _The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson_. In 1995, Simpson was [found not guilty of murder](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,985929-2,00.html "undefined") in the first degree and second degree. However, he was found guilty of 10 charges related to a gunpoint robbery at a Las Vegas hotel in 2008. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4205318/people-vs-oj-simpson-fx-prison/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4205318/people-vs-oj-simpson-fx-prison/"},"headline":"O.J. Simpson Won’t Be Watching The People v. O.J. Simpson","datePublished":"2016-02-02T23:43:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T09:10:52.539Z","description":"His prison doesn't get FX","url":"https://time.com/4205318/people-vs-oj-simpson-fx-prison/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt478854d0cb89137b/69887bdee20a875adfa8f572/oj-simpson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt478854d0cb89137b/69887bdee20a875adfa8f572/oj-simpson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"O.J. Simpson Seeks Retrial In Las Vegas Court - Day 5","caption":"O.J. Simpson watches his former defense attorney Yale Galanter testify during an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court on May 17, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.","creditText":"Ethan Miller-Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4205318/people-vs-oj-simpson-fx-prison/","name":"O.J. Simpson Won’t Be Watching The People v. O.J. Simpson"}}]}] ```