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FX and Hulu are set to release a followup to their documentary Framing Britney Spears, titled Controlling Britney Spears, tonight at 10 p.m. ET. It will be available on both the cable channel and the streaming service.
Created by the same team behind Framing Britney Spears, the latest installment of the The New York Times Presents franchise features new allegations from insiders with intimate knowledge of Britney Spears‘ daily life under the conservatorship.
Here’s the synopsis: “In a confidential report obtained by, Ms. Spears told a court investigator in 2016 that her conservatorship had become ‘an oppressive and controlling tool against her.’ But how the conservatorship has controlled her life has never been revealed. Now, in this New York Times investigation, a portrait emerges of an intense surveillance apparatus that monitored every move she made.”
Controlling Britney Spears is directed by Samantha Stark. Liz Day is supervising producer and reporter.
According to the documentary’s team, once insiders came forward, they felt compelled to bring their reporting to the public as soon as possible.
“When Britney spoke publicly about her conservatorship in detail for the first time during a court hearing in June, she said a reason she hadn’t spoken up earlier is she didn’t think people would believe her,” Stark said in a statement. “Britney’s speech motivated the people in this film to seek us out to share their stories — at great risk to themselves — because they felt compelled to back up what Britney was saying.”
Day added: “Britney’s situation raises a lot of important questions about the conservatorship system at large and whether it is working properly. We felt it was in the public interest to examine that.”
News of Controlling Britney Spears‘ release comes just days after Netflix revealed that it will release its own documentary, Britney vs. Spears, on September 28, just a day before the next hearing in Spears’ conservatorship case. The judge is expected to hear the singer’s request to remove her father, Jamie Spears, from the conservatorship, as well as her father’s petition to terminate the conservatorship.
Controlling Britney Spears will premiere simultaneously tonight at 10 p.m. ET on FX and Hulu.
