If you are looking for those nightly Michael Jackson trial reenactments on TV, you're about a month early.

A spokesman for the U.S. cable broadcaster E! Entertainment Television confirmed that their proposed nightly, half-hour series -- which will use actors to re-create the preceding day's Jackson trial testimony -- will not start until after the jury for the trial has been selected.

Jury selection began yesterday and is expected to take three to four weeks.

Celebrity trial

In what has been hyped as one of the biggest celebrity trials ever, the 46-year-old "King of Pop" has been charged with multiple counts of child molestation.

E! Entertainment Television president and CEO Ted Harbert announced plans for the series last month at the annual network press tour in Los Angeles. CHUM Television, which purchases E! programming, is looking at picking up the series to air locally on their specialty channel Star!

Actor hired

Harbert said that care would be taken to transcribe testimony verbatim and to show no bias in the half-hour re-enactments. An actor who resembles Jackson has been hired (but has not been identified).

The judge in this case, unlike with the O.J. Simpson trial, has ruled there will be no TV cameras allowed inside the courtroom.

Besides the E! re-enactments, Jackson trial updates are expected to be a nightly obsession on Entertainment Tonight, Extra, Celebrity Justice and other entertainment magazines as well as on CNN, Court TV and nightly newscasts.