'Framing Britney Spears’ Filmmakers Talk Ethical Challenges of Portraying Complicated Star

Have you watched an amazing music documentary we've not mentioned? Share it in the comments below. This feature-length documentary looks back Britney Spears' 28-year-long career, and explores the decade-long conservatorship that she has been under.Produced by the New York Times, it travels from the pop star's early career all the way up to the present day.

“I understand that every story needs a villain, but people have it so wrong here,” Jamie Spears, though his lawyer, Vivian Thoreen, said during the Feb. 25 episode of Good Morning America, nearly three weeks after Framing Britney Spears aired.

Columbus Short — who worked as a backup dancer, choreographer and producer with Britney Spears — claimed that he once got “intimate” with the pop princess in 2003. The 38-year-old Scandal star made the claim in his 2020 autobiography Short Stories, alleging that a “wild party” led up to the hookup. “[Britney] sent us a jet, and just like that, we were in New York having a wild party for my 21st birthday,” Columbus wrote to begin his hookup story.

Britney Spears’ mother, Lynne Spears, denied Columbus Short’s claim that she once called him the N-word during a conversation with the pop star.

The future seemed to bright for Britney Spears and then men in her life as she celebrated her 18th birthday with those who loved her, in new photos that have emerged. Her boyfriend Justin Timberlake was by her side, and her dad Jamie Spears was also there at the New York bar Halo for her party on Dec.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVBritney Spears has been back in the news again, first because of FX’s latest installment of “The New York Times Presents,” which was entitled “Framing Britney Spears,” which made #FreeBritney trend on social media. Then, the pop star continued her legal battle to remove her father’s conservatorship over her estate.

Look, we know Britney Spears’s conservatorship is bad news, but it seems like we’re only just beginning to scratch the surface of how bad things really are…

Framing Britney Spears will be happy to know that the New York Times-led investigative film finally has a UK air date. Discussing Britney’s ongoing legal battle with her father Jamie Spears (not to be confused with the star’s sister, Jamie Lynn Spears), the documentary aims to piece together the timeline surrounding her conservatorship and will detail her battles with childhood stardom, music industry misogyny and insensitive global tabloids.

Britney Spears documentary is on Hulu and causing a second look at the pop star's conservatorship and media scrutiny during the 90s and 2000s.  provides a look into the pop star's ongoing conservatorship battle with her father, Jamie Spears, as well as looking back at the now-39-year-old singer's treatment by the media over the years, particularly during the height of her stardom .Spears is aware of the documentary, which premiered on FX and Hulu earlier this month, a source tells ET.

While the rumour mills have been buzzing new claims made in Britney Spears’s documentary, now the belle of the ball Britney herself is speaking out. The 39-year-old pop icon recently took to Twitter and shared her take on the New York Times documentary--Framing Britney Spears, which explored her experience in the industry and her conservatorship under her father, Jamie Spears.

Britney Spears’ ex-husband Kevin Federline has released a statement via his lawyer following the release of the “Framing Britney Spears” documentary.

Britney Spears has been the name on everyone’s lips over the last week as the release of the New York Times-produced documentary Framing Britney Spears came out on Friday.

Superstar Britney Spears has long lived a life in the limelight.  Shining an illuminating light on the pop star, "Framing Britney Spears," examines the singer’s career and the resulting conservatorship under father Jamie Spears following her public breakdown in 2008.