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BBC drops Ozzy Osbourne documentary, new date to be announced

The BBC has said the documentary features "unique and intimate access to the whole Osbourne family", including Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne (pictured) and their children Kelly and Jack Photo: Ruaridh Connellan/Expectation/BBC
The BBC has said the documentary features "unique and intimate access to the whole Osbourne family", including Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne (pictured) and their children Kelly and Jack Photo: Ruaridh Connellan/Expectation/BBC

The BBC has dropped its Ozzy Osbourne documentary from Monday's schedule with a new air date to be announced.

Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home was due to be shown on BBC One at 9pm but has now been replaced with an episode of Fake or Fortune?, with no reason given for the change in schedule.

A BBC spokesperson said: "The film has moved in the schedules and we'll confirm new TX (transmission) details in due course."

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The hour-long documentary will show the late Black Sabbath frontman reuniting with the band on stage as part of the Back to the Beginning farewell concert in Birmingham on Saturday 5 July.

The legendary singer died on 22 July from a reported heart attack. He was 76.

The film was originally conceived as a series, announced in 2022, and called Home to Roost.

It was intended to document Osbourne and his wife Sharon's move back from the US, where they had lived for more than two decades, to rural Buckinghamshire.

But the project "evolved as Ozzy's health deteriorated" into the one-hour film, according to the BBC.

The BBC has said the documentary sees the story of the concert told through "unique and intimate access to the whole Osbourne family", including Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne and their children Kelly and Jack.

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It was filmed over three years and "captures the extraordinary rollercoaster of their lives" as the famous couple "attempt to complete their long-held dream of moving back to the UK", the BBC has said.


Watch: Ozzy Osbourne at Black Sabbath's farewell show at Villa Park in Birmingham on 5 July

Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home also captures the musician as he "heroically battles to get fit enough to perform" and the family dealing with "the dramatic consequences of his ill health".

The rocker had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2019.

Last month, fans gathered alongside Osbourne's family to pay tribute to the star as his funeral cortège travelled through Birmingham.

Sharon Osbourne and the couple's children could be seen wiping away tears when they arrived at the Black Sabbath bench, where thousands of tributes, balloons, and flowers were left.

Musicians from Bostin Brass played Black Sabbath songs to accompany the cortège, and fans threw flowers at the hearse as it passed slowly through the city.

Source: Press Association

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