Delayed BBC Ozzy Osbourne ‘Coming Home’ Documentary on Final Years Rescheduled

The BBC has announced the caller broadcast day for an Ozzy Osbourne documentary that was pulled from its schedule astatine the past infinitesimal successful August owed to the family’s request. According to an update posted connected Wednesday (Sept. 17), the one-hour movie Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home — originally slated to aerial connected Aug. 18 — will present surface connected BBC One and iPlayer connected Oct. 2.

The movie covering the last fewer years of the stone icon’s beingness was pulled from the network’s docket conscionable hours earlier it was slated to screen, with the web saying that the determination came successful an effort astatine “respecting the family’s wishes to hold a spot longer earlier airing this precise peculiar film.”

The archetypal aerial day would person been little than a period aft Osbourne died astatine property 76 connected July 22, conscionable 2 weeks aft performing his last amusement astatine his location shot stadium, Villa Park, successful Birmingham, England arsenic portion of the all-star Back to the Beginning tribute show.

The movie volition screen the last 3 years of the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s beingness arsenic helium and wife/manager Sharon Osbourne moved backmost to their autochthonal U.K. aft years of surviving successful Los Angeles, arsenic good arsenic his “heroic” combat to flooded a bid of aesculapian issues to instrumentality to the signifier for the July 5 amusement successful Ozzy’s autochthonal Birmingham.

An updated statement of the “intimate” doc says it volition supply a “candid and moving representation of 1 of Birmingham’s favourite songs, and the singular narration with Sharon arsenic the mates faced a “monumental battle, some connected a nonrecreational and idiosyncratic level” to flooded the effects of Parkinson’s illness connected the dense metallic icon, arsenic good arsenic the aftermath of a hard spinal surgery.

“Pulling disconnected either the determination oregon the gig volition beryllium a phenomenal achievement, and lad Jack is disquieted astir the toll of relocating to a state that his parents person hardly spent clip successful implicit the past 2 decades, arsenic good arsenic the interaction connected specified close-knit household dynamics,” reads the description. “But Ozzy has ne'er been a antheral to instrumentality nary for an answer, and with Sharon’s enactment helium sets astir achieving his goals with the determination, blistering honesty and razor-sharp consciousness of wit that person endeared him to millions for implicit 50 years. He volition halt astatine thing to marque his assemblage enactment arsenic good arsenic it utilized to, with the movie capturing singular levels of resolve.”

The BBC doc volition deed surface conscionable 5 days earlier different affectional doc covering Ozzy’s last years, Ozzy: No Escape From Now, which volition travel the rocker successful the six years earlier his death. That movie, directed by BAFTA Award-winner Tania Alexander volition premiere on  Read Entire Article