The documentary that adopted the ultimate months of Ozzy Osbourne‘s life has reportedly been pulled from the BBC’s schedule simply hours earlier than it was as a result of air.
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Titled Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Residence, the undertaking 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 youngsters Jack and Kelly.
The one-off documentary was set to air tonight (August 18) on iPlayer at 9pm, however has now been rescheduled with out rationalization, per The Mirror, who famous it had vanished from TV listings and had been changed by an episode of Pretend or Fortune.
A spokesperson for the BBC didn’t make clear the rationale it has been pulled, however advised the publication that the “movie has moved within the schedules” and new premiere particulars can be shared “sooner or later”.
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 a long time 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 reside present.
That gig came about on July 5 at Villa Park, in Sabbath’s hometown of Birmingham, falling solely two weeks earlier than his dying, aged 76, and noticed Ozzy joined by rock heavyweights together with Weapons N’ Roses, KoRn, Device, Slayer, Pantera, Metallica, Alice In Chains, Gojira, Anthrax, and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler.
Osbourne was laid to relaxation within the grounds of his UK mansion throughout a personal ceremony that was attended by Elton John, members of Metallica and extra. His cortege had beforehand travelled by his dwelling metropolis of Birmingham in a procession attended by 1000’s of followers.
Numerous names have come ahead to pay tribute to Ozzy, together with Zak Starkey, Adam Sandler, Ghost’s Tobias Forge, Alice Cooper, Elton John, Yungblud, Billie Joe Armstrong, Jack White, Coldplay, Gojira and Jake E Lee. Touching messages have additionally been shared by his Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Invoice Ward and Geezer Butler.
In addition to the BBC documentary, there have additionally been experiences that a biopic primarily based on Ozzy and Sharon’s relationship remains to be within the works.
Ozzy’s dying certificates lists the reason for dying as a coronary heart assault, whereas additionally mentioning that he was affected by coronary coronary heart illness and Parkinson’s. It additionally listed his occupation as “Songwriter, Performer and Rock Legend”.