BBC enters the Britney battle with new doc The Battle For Britney

It seems likely, at this point, that Britney Spears may never escape her status as a pop culture battleground. Spears’ fame is so massive, and the circumstances surrounding her life—from the rampant sexualization of her early career, to the regular infusions of reality show energy, to the bizarre conservatorship she’s lived under for more than a decade—are so strange, that she’s probably doomed to exist forever less as a person whose life we discuss, and more a symbol through which the world is widely interpreted. The latest variant of that ongoing argument has, somewhat ironically, become the rising number of documentaries examining how we, as a society, have treated Spears herself, a movement led by FX and Hulu’s Framing Britney Spears, and which is now set to add BBC Select’s The Battle For Britney: Fans, Cash, And A Conservatorship to its ranks.