Five judge the Spice Girls!

From Broadcast:

Five will attempt to gauge the public's reaction to the Spice Girls' reunion in a one-off documentary from Twofour, The Spice Girls on Trial .

The 60-minute show will feature interviews with important figures in the group's past including former manager, Chris Herbert. The show is timed to coincide with the UK leg of their comeback tour in December this year.

There will also be contributions from a range of commentators including Germaine Greer and Peaches Geldof who will look at the Spice Girls' contribution to popular culture and ask how much impact their music and personalities had on the world.

The programme will culminate in a live viewers' vote in which they will give their verdict on the Spice Girls phenomenon and the recent reinvention.

Questions answered will include "Was there any substance to girl power or was it just marketing froth?" and "Is the comeback tour a welcome return or a chance for [The Spice Girls] to cash in on the pop group revival trend?".

The show was commissioned by Five head of factual entertainment Steven Gowans and will air later this year on Five and Five Life.

Joe Houlihan will executive produce for Twofour with Lucy Reese producing and directing.

(Source: Broadcast, 16 November 2007 © Broadcast)

Sounds like fun! Wonder if Twofour will produce any of the following:

Take That on Trial
Boyzone on Trial
East 17 on Trial (whatever happened to their 'comeback'?)

Sounds interesting, imo The Spice Girls reunion is a complete farse so far anyway. The only successful reunion is Take That thanks be to the fact that Gary Barlow is a talented songwriter.

I would hardly call a sell out UK tour a farse!

All the people who are slaging off the spice girls, are the one's who I bet bought their album in 1996 and are now too embarrassed to admit to it! So Sad!

Err..no pal. Obviously to the fans their tour isn't a farse, I'm just saying something seems very odd about their reunion. It's as if its all forced.

I didn't have their album incidently, my sister did. Not that this is relevent.

Does not seen that odd to me?? The spice girls are just jumping on the money making bandwagon, just like Take That, just like Boyzone, Just like 911, All saints, The police, and just like everyother group who is coming out of the woodwork all of a sudden?

British people just love nostalgia, so bands are cashing in on it?

Boyzone's reunion looks more forced to me! You can tell Ronan does not give 2 sh**s, and is just in it for the money, and because Boyzone would NOT work without him!

Weren't the Spice Girls the people that promoted five during it's launch?

Ironic much?

And thats exactly what I'm saying about The Spice Girls....i.e lets say, Victoria Beckham.

I think that's why people are saying it's forced, the SG just seem to jumping on that bandwagon, I think their new single is half-hearted to say the least.

Take That were the first to start of this current craze; so they couldn't jump on the bandwagon in the first place, because they started it in a way! Besides TT lads were quietly busy with their own stuff, so it was not like they 'needed' to reform.

No I didn't buy any SG material