Seven Days That Shook the Spice Girls
Directed byChris Wilson[1]
StarringSpice Girls (archival footage)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production companyYorkshire Television[1]
Original release
NetworkChannel 4
Release
  • 10 September 2002 (2002-09-10) (UK)

Seven Days That Shook the Spice Girls is a 2002 unofficial British documentary film about British girl group the Spice Girls. The film looks at seven key moments in the band's history, including their formation, Top of the Pops magazine giving them their nicknames, firing their manager Simon Fuller and Geri Halliwell's departure.[2][3]

Release

The film premiered on Channel 4 on 10 September 2002,[4] and was watched by an audience of 2.08 million.[5]

Critical response

Writing for The Guardian, Gareth McLean thought the film was "lightweight and disposable", and did not do the "bona fide pop culture phenomenon" of the Spice Girls justice.[3] Joe Joseph of The Times agreed that the film was insubstantial, calling it a "speedy, cost-efficient way to interleave stock library footage with quotes from DJs and showbiz journalists in order to fill gaps in the late summer schedules."[6] The Independent's Thomas Sutcliffe felt the airing of the film on the same week as the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks was ill-timed, and described the film as "a scrappy collage of warmed-over gossip and underpowered revelation."[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Seven Days That Shook the Spice Girls (2002)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on July 16, 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Last Night's TV: Seven Days That Shook The Spice Girls (C4)". The Northern Echo. 11 September 2002. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  3. ^ a b McLean, Gareth (11 September 2002). "Who do you think you are?". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  4. ^ "TV review: All the spicy details". Liverpool Echo. 10 September 2002. p. 21. Retrieved 24 February 2021 – via ProQuest.
  5. ^ "Weekly top 30 programmes on TV sets: Channel 4 (SD+HD): SEVEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE SPICE GIRLS (TUE 2100). Select Year 2002; Month September; Week 9 Sept–15 Sept". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  6. ^ Joseph, Joe (11 September 2002). "Review". The Times. p. 27. Retrieved 24 February 2021 – via ProQuest.
  7. ^ Sutcliffe, Thomas (11 September 2002). "LAST NIGHT'S TELEVISION ; Seven Days That Shook the Spice Girls C4; Grand Designs Revisited C4". The Independent. p. 29. Retrieved 24 February 2021 – via ProQuest.

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