The BBC‘s Ozzy Osbourne documentary has been removed from the schedules hours before it was due to air.
Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home was supposed to launch on BBC One tonight, charting the last chapter of the late Black Sabbath founder’s life, with contribution from wife Sharon and children Jack and Kelly.
With mere hours to go until Coming Home was due to land, it was removed from the schedules, a BBC spokeswoman confirmed.
“The film has moved in the schedules and we’ll confirm new TX details in due course,” said a spokeswoman.
It is unclear at this point why the doc has been pushed back. We are told it will definitely air but no TX date has been set. We understand there may have been some final tweaks made to the show or the BBC may have wanted there to be more time between Osbourne’s death and the documentary airing.
Osbourne died on July 22 just two weeks after he reunited with Black Sabbath for one final concert.
The journey of Coming Home has been a long one. Initially titled Home to Roost and produced by Clarkson’s Farm maker Expectation, the show was forged as a spiritual successor to MTV’s anarchic mid-noughties series The Osbournes, focusing on the family’s return home to the UK.
It was announced in 2022 but was delayed when Osbourne became ill and was then turned from a series into a feature documentary when he died. Expectation is understood to have filmed with the family for a number of months. Coming Home was described as “an intimate glimpse into [the family’s] journey as they prepare to return to the UK” by BBC docs boss Clare Sillery last week.
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