After a deluge of protests, the Discovery television network's re-enactment of Michael Jackson's autopsy is now in limbo.
"Michael Jackson's Autopsy: What Really Killed Michael Jackson" was slated to air in the U.K. next month, but now the special's been "postponed indefinitely," Discovery Networks International says, citing "the request of Michael Jackson's estate" and "the commencement of legal proceedings beginning next week." (A preliminary hearing for Dr. Conrad Murray, who's charged with involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death, is set for Jan. 4.)
Writing to Discovery on Wednesday, the co-executors of the Jackson estate said the show was "in shockingly bad taste" and asked that the program be yanked in the interest of "common sense and decency," the New York Times says. Earlier this month, many of the King of Pop's fans also started spreading around a petition that insisted the special be canceled.
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