Five has commissioned Twofour to produce The Spice Girls On Trial, an hour-long documentary that discovers what the world really thinks about the much hyped Spice Girls reunion.

The Spice Girls On Trial will attempt to answer this burning question in a groundbreaking interactive documentary that will culminate in a live vote timed to coincide with the UK leg of their comeback tour in December 2007.

The programme uses interviews with important figures in the history of The Spice Girls and has contributions from a diverse range of commentators including Germaine Greer and Peaches Geldof who analyse the girls’ contribution to popular culture and ask how much impact their music and personalities had on the world.

The programme culminates in a viewers’ vote where the audience decides what they think of the Spice Girls. Were they basically a good thing, creating some of the best pop music of the 90s and also giving young girls great role models? Or were they the starting point for our inane obsession with celebrity culture and plastic pop?

And what about Girl Power. Was there any substance to it or was it just marketing froth to sell a silly pop group? Did it actually do the girls a massive disservice by creating the abomination that was the ladette?

And last, but not least, the comeback tour, is it a welcome return for the pop culture phenomenon of the 90s or just a chance for the famous five to rake in some much needed cash?

The Spice Girls on Trial is a Twofour production for Five. The executive producer is Joe Houlihan and the producer/director is Lucy Reese.