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FX and Hulu announced on Monday that Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake’s 2004 Super Bowl halftime scandal will be the subject of a new documentary.
As Deadline reports, the streaming platform and cable channel will host the latest doc in the New York Times Presents series, and it’ll be entitled Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson. Due to arrive later this month on Nov. 19, the documentary promises to feature previously unseen footage and interviews with people involved with the production of the infamous halftime show.
Directed by Jodi Gomes, who previously helmed A+E’s docuseries focused on the Jackson family, the doc is a follow-up to the previous NYT Presents docs, Framing Britney Spears and Controlling Britney Spears. Focusing on the moment in which JT briefly caused a wardrobe malfunction that resulted in the exposure of Janet Jackson’s breast to live audiences around the country, Malfunction will also explore the racial and gender politics at play in the response to the moment. JT wasn’t really impacted negatively by the performance, while Jackson’s career took a hit.
Among those due to appear in the documentary is numerous NFL and MTV executives, other music industry insiders, and members of the Jackson family. The fallout from incident was swift, and in response MTV even enforced a blacklist of Jackson’s music videos. As previously mentioned, the same actions weren’t taken against Timberlake.
