The BBC‘s delayed Ozzy Osbourne: Coming House documentary has been rescheduled for subsequent month.
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The challenge was set to share “shifting and inspirational” perception into the ultimate chapter of the heavy metallic pioneer’s life, and featured contributions from his spouse Sharon and his kids Jack and Kelly.
The one-off documentary was set to air on August 18, however followers discovered it was rescheduled with out clarification simply hours forward of airing, and had vanished from TV listings in favour of an episode of Pretend or Fortune. On the time, a spokesperson for the BBC didn’t make clear why it had been pulled, solely saying the movie had ” moved within the schedules”.
They later defined that they had been appearing in accordance with the Osbourne household’s needs. “Our sympathies are with the Osbourne household at this troublesome time,” the broadcaster stated through BBC Information. “We’re respecting the household’s needs to attend a bit longer earlier than airing this very particular movie. The brand new date will probably be confirmed shortly.”
As was introduced earlier this week, the movie will now air on October 2 on BBC One or BBC iPlayer.
The documentary was filmed throughout three years, and adopted the late Black Sabbath frontman as he and Sharon made the transfer again to the UK after many years residing within the US, and charted his journey to getting match sufficient to carry out at his mammoth farewell present, ‘Again To The Starting’, which was his ultimate stay present.
That gig occurred on July 5 at Villa Park, in Sabbath’s hometown of Birmingham, and noticed Ozzy joined by rock heavyweights together with Weapons N’ Roses, KoRn, Software, Slayer, Pantera, Metallica, Gojira, Anthrax, and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler.
The historic gig really feel solely two weeks earlier than his loss of life, aged 76, marking his ultimate goodbye to followers. Osbourne was later laid to relaxation within the grounds of his UK mansion throughout a non-public ceremony that was attended by Elton John, members of Metallica and extra. His cortege had beforehand travelled via his residence metropolis of Birmingham in a procession attended by hundreds of followers.
Elsewhere in October, Paramount Plus will share air new documentary, Ozzy Osbourne: No Escape From Now, the trailer to which was shared earlier this week.
The movie chronicles the ultimate six years of his life, in addition to his eagerness to stage the ‘Again To The Starting’ live performance.
Directed by BAFTA winner Tania Alexander, No Escape From Now was filmed during the last six years, and contains unique chats with the metallic icon’s relations, collaborators, different musicians and one among Ozzy’s ultimate on-screen interviews.
The trailer notes how Ozzy needed a lot to stage a ultimate present as a goodbye to his followers after being compelled to cancel all stay exhibits after struggling a fall in 2019 and his return to the studio.
Company featured within the documentary embrace Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, Ozzy’s guitarist Zakk Wylde and the likes of Chad Smith, Tom Morello, Billy Corgan, James Hetfield, Robert Trujillo, Billy Idol, Duff McKagan and extra.
The documentary was reportedly by no means meant as a posthumous launch – it initially made to element the musician’s battle to return to the stay stage after a number of years away, now burdened together with his deteriorating Parkinson’s analysis and different accidents.
“Following his loss of life on July 22, 2025, the documentary now stands as a testomony to Ozzy’s braveness, wit, dedication and expertise — qualities that guarantee he stays a hero to hundreds of thousands all over the world,” a press launch reads, per Consequence.
