Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain
Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain | |
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Genre | Documentary |
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Starring | Spice Girls (archival footage) |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 3 |
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Production company | 72 Films |
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Network | Channel 4 |
Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain is a three-part British television documentary produced and directed by Vari Innes, Alice McMahon-Major, and Jessica Ranja. The documentary examines modern feminism in the United Kingdom, particularly "girl power", through the lives and legacy of British girl group the Spice Girls.[1]
The production company 72 Films was commissioned to produce the series by Channel 4 in 2020, under the working title Girl Powered: The Spice Girls.[2] Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain premiered on Channel 4 from 14 to 28 September 2021.[3]
Episodes
[edit]No. | Title | Original air date [3] |
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1 | "Episode 1" | 14 September 2021 |
2 | "Episode 2" | 21 September 2021 |
3 | "Episode 3" | 28 September 2021 |
Critical response
[edit]The premiere received generally positive reviews. The Guardian's Rebecca Nicholson called it a "fabulous and intimate" documentary and gave it four out of five stars.[4] Elizabeth Aubrey of The Independent similarly gave the premiere four out of five stars, finding it to be a "damning" critique of the music industry in the 1990s.[5] James Jackson of The Times gave the episode three out of five stars and concluded that it was "an intelligent bit of back-to-the-1990s nostalgia layered with dismay at the era's laddism."[6] The Daily Telegraph's Kat Brown also gave it three stars, finding the lack of input from the Spice Girls themselves to be a notable omission.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain". 72 Films. Archived from the original on 4 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ "Channel 4 commissions Girl Powered: The Spice Girls (w/t)". Channel 4. 13 July 2020. Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ a b "Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain". Channel 4. Archived from the original on 4 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ Nicholson, Rebecca (14 September 2021). "Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain review – fabulous and intimate". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 4 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ Aubrey, Elizabeth (14 September 2021). "Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain – a damning look at the music industry 25 years on". The Independent. Archived from the original on 4 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ Jackson, James (15 September 2021). "Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed the World review — was it feminism or a novelty slogan?". The Times. Archived from the original on 4 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ Brown, Kat (14 September 2021). "The Spice Girls weren't the answer to the sexist Nineties - they were a product of it". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 4 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.