BBC pulled their Ozzy documentary from the schedules on Monday night after “there were concerns about how the family felt about the end product”
Real reason BBC pulled Ozzy Osbourne documentary hours before airing
The real reason the Ozzy Osbourne documentary was pulled from the air hours before airing has been revealed – after intervention from the family.
The BBC pulled their Ozzy documentary from the schedules on Monday night after “there were concerns about how the family felt about the end product”, reports the Sun newspaper. A source said: “There have been conversations behind the scenes that maybe the BBC were rushing their show on Ozzy out – especially because Paramount+ also had a film in the offing.
“The BBC’s production had been originally planned to run as a ten part series following Ozzy and Sharon’s move back to the UK called Home To Roost.
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“After Ozzy passed away, the makers of the series then decided it should be a one-off film. What mattered the most to the family was the overall tone and theme of the programme, which features Ozzy and Sharon in one of their last interviews together.
“It started to feel like the goal being pursued was that the BBC and the makers of the film were to get the show on air faster than the Paramount+ doc.
“Naturally that has caused some concerns with the family.” The BBC had been due to air Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, filmed during the late singer’s last years, on Monday evening, but has postponed the screening without giving reasons or a new transmission date.
According to producer Expectation, the film will be a “moving and inspirational account” of the last chapter of Ozzy’s life.
It was filmed over three years and has been told through “unique and intimate access” to the whole family, including Ozzy, wife Sharon, son Jack and daughter Kelly.
The documentary will feature what makers described as the “extraordinary rollercoaster” of the Osbournes’ lives as Sharon and Ozzy tried to realise a long-held dream to move back to the UK.
Ben Wicks and Colin Barr, executive producers at Expectation, said the film was an “inspiring and poignant” account of Ozzy fulfilling his dream to perform on stage one last time.
They said: “Ozzy was loved by millions around the world not just for his music, but for his sense of mischief and his honesty, all of which we saw plenty of in the final years of his life.
“But one thing shone through even more brightly to us and that was Ozzy’s intense love for his exceptional family who were by his side through it all.”