THEY’RE making a run for it.

America’s Fox network is to dramatise the 1995 murder trial of former sports star OJ Simpson for TV.

A series will recreate the exhilarating chase, arrest, trial and subsequent controversial acquittal of the ex San Francisco 49er following the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

TV bosses are already boasting it will be a sure-fire hit as the Trial of the Century, as it was dubbed at the time, was a complete epic watched by tens of millions across the globe.

Yes, everybody remembers where they were when OJ Simpson’s distinctive white van led the police – and news helicopters – all over Los Angeles. The world was glued to the unfolding events.

And yes. I do believe this very story marked the start of 24 hour news coverage and possibly even reality TV – as I droned on about in my subsequent 10,000 word dissertation on the subject.

But the problem here is that the real life event made such compulsive viewing that most people just couldn’t look away.

And the news that it’s all going to be recreated nearly two decades later as a drama, does beg one question.

Could it ever be more thrilling than the real thing? I seriously doubt it.