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Fox even tried to counterprogram with a hastily scheduled O.J.

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Simpson confession special, which tanked, drawing a meager 4.4 million viewers.

These are not the kinds of numbers that signal the newIdolwill be any sort of pop-culture phenom.

Now, the hard part: getting them to stick around.