O.J. headlines US obsession with docu-series crime

The first episode in the 10-part "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" premiered on FX, offering a dramatized behind-the-scenes look at how America's football hero was charged but acquitted of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman. With glowing reviews, the show is a guaranteed hit at a time when Americans are again debating race and the criminal justice system, and armchair detectives are cutting their teeth on a flood of slow-burn documentary series revisiting apparent miscarriages of justice. There was HBO's award-winning "The Jinx" which apparently trapped a New York real estate scion into confessing to murder, Netflix hit "Making a Murderer" which moved the White House to explain its inability to intervene and "Serial," a humble radio podcast that reopened the case of a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend.

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