How to watch 'The People vs. OJ Simpson' on streaming: Catch up on drama about ex-NFL star's infamous trial

The People vs. OJ Simpson TV show first aired in 2017 - but it is getting fresh interest after the death of the football star. 

The American Crime Story series focuses on the 1995 murder trial of Simpson, played by Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. 

The verdict in the real-life trial on October 3 that year was watched by more than 150million in the US - 57 per cent of the country.

The ten-part show was made by Fox-owned FX - but was initially aired globally after its release in February 2017 by Netflix under a big rights deal at the time.

But it is now on Hulu and Disney+ after Disney completed the acquisition of Fox's TV shows and movies in 2017. 

The People V OJ Simpson: American Crime Story with Cuba Gooding Jr. as O.J. Simpson and Courtney B. Vance as Johnnie Cochran

David Schwimmer is Robert Kardashian and John Travolta is Robert Shapiro in the show

The People Vs OJ Simpson is free to subsribers of Hulu (above) and Disney Plus

Anyone with a subsctiption to those two services can watch it for free. Otherwise people need to buy it from servies like Apple TV. 

It features Friends star David Schwimmer as Simpson's friend and attorney Robert Kardashian.  It also stars John Travolta, Sarah Paulson, Courtney B. Vance, Sterling Brown, Nathan Lane, Kenneth Choi, Christian Clemenson and Bruce Greenwood. 

In the first episode, Kardashian figured prominently in the premiere as he advised Simpson legally and also talked him out of suicide in Kim Kardashian 's childhood bedroom.

Kris Jenner, played by Selma Blair, appears at the funeral of good friend Nicole Brown Simpson in that episode.

The funeral scene ended with Gooding Jr's Simpson kissing his slain ex-wife in her open casket.

FX, who made the show, desribe the show as: 'A limited series that takes you inside the O.J. Simpson trial with a riveting look at the legal teams battling to convict or acquit the football legend of double homicide. 

The show is based on the book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin.