Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Oct 5, 2017

Broadcast, cable and video news:

Would you watch an interview with O-J SIMPSON now that he's out of jail?
The Hollywood Reportersays friends and associates of "The Juice" have been shopping his first post-prison interview around for weeks now --but so far, there's been no takers.
The reason, according to several TV sources, is that networks believe viewers would boycott the interview instead of watching, and advertisers might refuse to have their spots run on the show because of the association.
Nevertheless, O-J needs the money he could make just to pass it along as part of the judgment against him in the 1997 wrongful death suit brought by the Brown and Goldman families. O-J was fined $33.5 million in that suit --which has reportedly gone up to nearly $70 million due to interest on the unpaid award.
So we'll see if there's any takers from the various TV networks.

Taking everything much too seriously:

A guy in England took McDonald's offer of free WiFi a little too far.
Video shows customer MAX CLAYTON setting up a full 32-inch television set inside the fast food restaurant, then hooking up his PlayStation 4. Then, he's seen enjoying burgers while playing video games. Clayton says he wanted to play Grand Theft Auto 5 but employees asked him to choose something more family-friendly. So, he's seen in the clip enjoying video Monopoly. (Still)

On, off and way-off-Broadway:

Ticketmaster has sued the re-sell company that bought close to 30-thousand tickets for "Hamilton." The New York Times says the lawsuit accuses Prestige Entertainment of using "ticket bot" software to purchase as much as 40-percent of all the available seats to the show, then re-sold them at upwards of twice the price. That means fraud, breach of contract and a violation of New York's anti-scalping law. Prestige paid $3.35-million dollars to settle another lawsuit that claimed the company used the same software buy 1,012 U2 concert tickets in one minute. (Marino)