JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE BOOKS FOUR HOURS OF APPLE TV TO EXPLAIN HIMSELF

Variety reports that Justin Timberlake has a four-part "tell-all" docuseries arriving on Apple TV in December, sourced to three people and directed by Fisher Stevens, who made the Beckham series for Netflix. One source says Janet Jackson sat for an interview about the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show. Another says Timberlake responds to recent comments from Britney Spears. So that's four episodes about things Justin Timberlake did in the early 2000s, produced at a studio Justin Timberlake walked into voluntarily. Refresher for anyone who was in elementary school. During "Rock Your Body," Timberlake pulled part of Jackson's costume off on live television, the phrase "wardrobe malfunction" entered the English language, and Jackson got frozen out of radio and video rotation while his career kept moving. He headlined the halftime show himself in 2018 and invited her to join him. She declined, which is still the most efficient response anybody has given to this entire saga. He apologized publicly in 2021, after Framing Britney Spears put it all back in the feed, writing that he cared for and respected both women and knew he had failed them. Five years later the apology has a budget, a release window and an episode count. One wrinkle. Reps for Timberlake, Jackson and Apple had no comment or never responded. The tell-all currently tells nothing.

Why you should give a shit: The 2004 fallout cost Jackson years of airplay and cost Timberlake roughly nothing, so the only real question about this thing is whether a tell-all ever pays the person who got told on.