A brand new Ozzy Osbourne documentary set to air within the U.Ok. on Monday, August 18, and element the ultimate years of the star’s life has been pulled from the schedule, the BBC confirmed to Us Weekly.
“The movie has moved within the schedules, and we’ll verify new [transmission] particulars sooner or later,” a BBC spokesperson stated in a press release to Us.
Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Residence was set to air Monday night time on BBC One, simply weeks after the Black Sabbath frontman’s demise at age 76 on July 22.
In an announcement earlier in August, the BBC described the movie as a “transferring and inspirational account of the final chapter of Ozzy’s life, instructed via distinctive and intimate entry to the entire Osbourne household, together with [Ozzy’s wife] Sharon, [son] Jack and [daughter] Kelly.”
The venture was initially conceived in 2022 as a brand new docuseries following Ozzy and Sharon, 72, returning to the U.Ok. after many years of residing in Los Angeles. The present was envisioned as a non secular successor to the household’s hit MTV actuality present, The Osbournes, which aired from 2002 to 2005.
The movie follows the couple’s transfer again to their native U.Ok., Ozzy’s battle with Parkinson’s illness and his preparations for Black Sabbath’s closing live performance, which happened simply two weeks earlier than his demise.
“It was an unbelievable privilege to spend the previous few years with Ozzy, in addition to Sharon, Jack and Kelly. Ozzy needed to make it again to the U.Ok. and seem on stage one final time — our movie is an inspiring and poignant account of him fulfilling that dream,” government producers Ben Wicks and Colin Barr stated in a press release earlier in August.
The producers continued, “Ozzy was cherished by hundreds of thousands world wide not only for his music, however for his sense of mischief and his honesty, all of which we noticed loads of within the closing years of his life. However one factor shone via much more brightly to us, and that was Ozzy’s intense love for his distinctive household, who had been by his aspect via all of it.”
Ozzy Osbourne’s life on and off the stage was stuffed with numerous OMG moments. All through his profession, the Black Sabbath member stored followers guessing with what he was going to say — and do — subsequent. Over time, Osbourne made headlines for reportedly stripping in Germany, portray his nostril purple and by chance peeing on […]
Ozzy’s household introduced his demise in a press release to Us on July 22. “It’s with extra disappointment than mere phrases can convey that we now have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has handed away this morning,” the household stated. “He was along with his household and surrounded by love. We ask everybody to respect our household privateness presently.”
Ozzy was laid to relaxation following a funeral in his hometown of Birmingham on July 30.
