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Soeur | Sunday, January 27, 2002 - 07:53 am     http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/39713.htm OZZY THE NEW OZZIE? By DON KAPLAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 23, 2002 -- FORTY years after Ozzie Nelson and and his squeaky-clean family dominated TV comes a new Ozzy - the bat-biting rock star - and his family. MTV is getting ready to debut a new reality-show called "The Osbournes" starring Ozzy Osbourne, the tattooed former frontman for Black Sabbath, who now - at age 53 - is struggling to make sense of life with his two teenage children, his 16-year-old daughter Kelly and 15-year-old son Jack. "There's one episode when Kelly comes home with a tattoo," says MTV programming chief Brian Graden. "And Ozzy gets pretty upset about this even though he's covered from head to toe in tattoos." MTV execs have labeled "The Osbournes" an unprecedented reality "sitcom" in which the network sent a camera crew to camp out at the Osbourne's Beverly Hills home. The crew gets nearly unlimited access to the hard rocker's family and their daily lives. And the cameras will leave the house when the Osbourne's tell them - but until then, the show is a joint effort between the network and the family with an opened-ended number of episodes planned, Graden said. "It's the world's first reality sitcom," Graden says. "We've got the outrageous family characters, yet there's that undercurrent of love that makes so many sitcoms work well." According to MTV the show - which features Ozzy's wife Sharon as well as their teenaged kids - will deal with "typical familial issues such as school, allowance, moving, pets, tattoos, adolescence and life on the road. "There's an episode where Ozzy loses the cat, Fluffy, and he wanders the streets of Beverly Hills yelling for their kitty," Graden said. "If I looked out my living room window and saw Ozzy Osbourne yelling 'Here, kitty, kitty,' I would have thought that I was on mushrooms or something." The show debuts on March 5 at 10:30 p.m. after "The Real World." |
Soeur | Sunday, January 27, 2002 - 07:54 am     Vote for The Osbournes! http://www.billboard.com/billboard/poll/index.jsp |
Angelnikki | Sunday, January 27, 2002 - 01:37 pm     awesome i love ozzy. i dont really like the music but i have seen him on MTV cribs when he was showing his house and kids and they seem totally NORMAL. compaired to what you might think they are they are totally normal family. that sounds cool i will watch it |
Donut | Sunday, January 27, 2002 - 06:13 pm     i am so excited- i have never much followed ozzies music or anything, but i have seen him with his wife and kids on howard stern interviews and on behind the music and they are the funniest most entertaining thing on tv- i always thought that they should have their own show! they act like this regular family except that ozzie is a drugged out(legal drugs, now) child and his kids are mature little adults who are really smart and talk back with great wit and sarcasm while his wife controls the show like a great puppeteer except all the while they have this incredible love and warmth with each other. its pretty much the only good thing that howard stern has on these days. i cant believe that this isnt just a joke. I had a student who loved ozzie and i won tickets and gave them to him. his dad took him. My student probably loved me after that but i bet his dad didnt! |
Grooch | Monday, March 04, 2002 - 12:55 pm     Don't forget. It starts tomorrow, right after the Real World, at 10:30. |
Pcakes2 | Monday, March 04, 2002 - 01:13 pm     When I first heard about this, I thought it was a joke. I was so happy when I read it was real! The Osburne family dynamic is fabulous. |
Grooch | Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 07:04 am     Going batty: MTV at home with Osbournes By David Bauder By Ken Parish Perkins the Associated Press Fort Worth Star-Telegram Posted March 5 2002 The boxes are stacked outside the Beverly Hills home, ready to be carried in. Each is neatly labeled: "pots and pans," "linens," "devil heads," "dead things." Plainly, Ozzie and Harriet aren't moving in. This Ozzy is Ozzy Osbourne, the heavy metal rock star, and his family. Their arrival in the neighborhood heralds a hilarious new MTV series, The Osbournes, which premieres at 10:30 tonight. MTV describes it as television's first "reality sitcom," a format that suggested itself naturally because nothing they could invent around the Osbournes would be as funny as their actual lives. Just the idea of the Black Sabbath founder, who will forever be known for biting the head off a bat during a 1982 concert, as a family man seems strange. Yet leather and black mascara can be deceiving. Osbourne, 53, is slightly addled but sweetly funny -- and under everything a lot like the put-upon dads you've been seeing in television sitcoms for generations. Watch a bewildered Ozzy fruitlessly try to navigate a satellite TV remote control, begging for help from his 16-year-old son. "I'm stuck on the Weather Channel," he says. "Arrrggghhh!!" His wife, Sharon, is a formidable talent manager in her own right who organizes the popular Ozzfest summer concert tours. She leaped to Ozzy's defense at a recent news conference when a reporter asked whether MTV would close-caption Osbourne's occasionally indecipherable dialogue. "Who said that?" she demanded. When the reporter stood up, Sharon swore at her. Indeed, expletives appear to be the Osbournes' favorite form of communication. During the first 30-minute episode, dialogue is bleeped out 59 times. The South Park kids would be proud. Two of the couple's three children -- Jack and 17-year-old Kelly -- are featured in the series. A third, older child opted out. Jack's something of an oddball, having trouble fitting in at school. The pink-haired, high-strung Kelly is, like any teenager, appropriately embarrassed by her parents. In a future episode, Ozzy talks to Kelly about the dangers of getting a tattoo. Dad also gives Kelly and Jack a lecture one night as they're about to go out. "Don't drink," he says. "Don't take drugs. If you have sex, wear a condom." A horrified Kelly looks like she can't get out of the room fast enough. There's trouble with the neighbors, too. The family next door plays music too loud and it's driving the Osbournes crazy. They're nothing like one of their former neighbors, Pat Boone and his family, who were "the best neighbors we ever had," Sharon said. "We had Pat Boone on one side and Meat Loaf on the other," Kelly recalled. "It was sort of like a Satan sandwich," Ozzy said. The Osbournes had been thinking of turning their lives into a television show for a while, after a well-received segment about their home life on the MTV series Cribs. Television executives they talked to wanted to build a fictional show around them. They didn't want to be like Ozzie & Harriet, where the people were real but their television life wasn't. "We're not the Partridge family," Sharon said. "It had to be real or we wouldn't do it. MTV agreed to do it as it was and just leave it pure." So they agreed to live with cameras everywhere for a few months. "We all learned a lot about ourselves -- that we all swear too much and have bad tempers," she said. Jack and Kelly bicker like all teenaged siblings. With insults -- and objects -- flying between them, an exasperated Ozzy says at one point, "I love you all, I love you more than life itself, but you're all [expletive] mad!" "We argue," Sharon explained, "but at the end of the day we all love each other." What family couldn't relate? One reason the Osbournes did the series was to demystify their lives. Look beyond the Beverly Hills home, stocked with Ozzy's collection of devils and crucifixes, and viewers will see lives that are pretty mundane. "What is a functional family?" Ozzy asked. "I know I'm dysfunctional by a long shot, but what guidelines do we all have to go by? The Waltons? What I'm trying to say is, what is the family that we should all take our inspiration from?" America, meet the Osbournes. |
Soeur | Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 03:03 pm     Help! We don't get MTV. Can someone tape the show for me and I'll pay for the tape & mailing? We are big Ozzy fans. |
Soeur | Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 03:05 pm     this site has a clip of the show and an interview with his daughter Kelly. http://www.msnbc.com/news/718043.asp?cp1=1 |
Donut | Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 04:20 pm     COUNTDOWN 3 HOURS AND 5 MINUTES!!! IM SO EXCITED!! Thanks for the article grooch, even an article about the show is really funny! Jack awkard? He was the cutest sweetest kid last time i saw him |
Oregonfire | Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 05:41 pm     I love Ozzy, and reality TV, but not premium cable prices. I had a friend who got premium cable just to watch the Sopranos--maybe it's my turn. Anyway, those who watch the Osbournes please let the rest of us know what happens. |
Angelnikki | Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 07:14 pm     omg, i cant wait to watch The Osbournes tonight. The trailers make it seem so funny. Oh soeur im sorry you dont get MTV. I watch MTV all the time I dont think I could live without it. I will let you know how it was. |
Yankee_In_Ca | Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 07:51 pm     I really, really, really wish I could see this -- too bad it's not available in Canada!!! (pout!) The first album I EVER bought was Blizzard of Oz -- which always amuses my friends who think I'm a nice, sweet, innocent girl! |
Soeur | Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 08:03 pm     So? SO? How was it? What happened? Was everything really broken in the move? Did they really do their own unpacking? |
Max | Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 08:08 pm     I just watched the first show. Now, I need to fess up and say that I've never been an Ozzy fan. That said, I found myself not able to turn away from the show! This family is so strange, odd, and just plain funny. Is Ozzy brain damaged or has he always been like that? Seems like he's rather slow and he definitely has shaky hands (as in palsy). He seems like he has a quick and quirky wit that's been stifled by a stroke or Parkinson's disease or something. Maybe it's the 35 years in front of those big speakers. The kids cracked me up! The daughter looks very alternative, but kept coming out with very conservative kinds of thoughts. I kept thinking of Alex Keaton on 'Family Ties' only she has hot-pink hair instead of button-down suits. The mom seems to be the brains and the boss behind everything. Above all, Ozzy and his wife (can't remember her name) seem very much in love and that's cool no matter what. Wonder if they staged the neighbors looking at the devil on the front door in the preview for next week?  |
Sage | Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 08:25 pm     Sis, I need to buy some new tapes, and I can tape the shows for you. I just went to the MTV site, and got the schedule for air dates. I'm going to print it out to help me remember. I will email you to get the particulars. I'm so happy to do this for you, btw!! |
Soeur | Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 08:39 pm     Sage! You are a total TOTAL darling! We are going to an Ozzy concert soon and will look for a souvenir for you. No rubber doves, I promise. Ozzy's wife's name is Sharon. Her father used to be the manager for Black Sabbath. Sharon broke with her father when he supported having Ozzy fired from the group over two decades ago. Everyone thought he was washed up but she stood by her man, married him and became his manager and the rest is rock n roll history. Ozzy really damaged his system with all his recreational drug use and now is on heavy antidepressants. He speaks very honestly about his life and the mistakes he has made and is very devoted to his family and close friends. The guy has been through a lot. His tells his story through his music. My older son has turned me into a huge Ozzy fan. |
Donut | Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 08:39 pm     well, that was really fun, although the best lines were given away by the article above. I am very frustrated however that these people are putting themselves out there with some of the funniest humor around, and MTV is providing such horrible sound that you can only hear a quarter of it and what you hear is half bleeped. I was looking so forward to watching the bits of it that i caught on tape to read the captions and they dont even provide closed captioning! It really pisses me off, not only for depriving nonhearing people from enjoying it, but if you are going to use sucky sound equip. then at least let us read it! I am sure most of Ozzys friends are half deaf like him and MTV is too cheap to accomodate! and i have never seen so many commercials in a half hour! ok, i guess all their yelling riled me up, but at least i am not cursing! anyways, i think ozzy is partly fryed from drug use and partly from the heavy doses of legal drugs that he takes now. i also think it was edited to make them all look crazy and stupid, cuz i have seen them in interviews and Behind the Scenes and they were much more normal, lucid and sweet. They could have been playing it up, or else they are just wackier in their own house , esp. when edited down to the craziest stuff. But some of it was really priceless. even their pets fight with each other! All you pet lovers must watch next week as their large menagerie will be featured. Preview: After several pieces of furniture are destroyed, Sharon hires a person to take care of the pets and ozzy yells'You dont need to hire someone, you just have to wake up at 7am and open the *&*%&* door!' ( i would like to see that last paragraph as the TV guide description!...) |
Whowhere | Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 06:08 am     My husband and I watched. We thought it was great and will be watching every episode Kinda wish it was on HBO or something just so we can hear the other 50% of what they say.  |
Lurkin | Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 08:10 am     My husband and teenage sons watched this together. I have not laughed so hard in years. This was the best thing I have seen. The scary thing was we saw something in that show of all of us in someway. I agree Who I wish it was on HBO. & the pet thing was priceless. especially with our dog at the time barking at the door. I hope the Osbournes are pleased with the show. Can't wait til next week. |
Angelnikki | Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 05:31 pm     You guys are sooo right, The Osbournes was great. I cracked up at how the kids just cuss away and Ozzy's wife Sharon cusses alot too. LOL it was so hilarious. Im sorry some of you dont get MTV. That sucks. Did you guys hear Ozzy say that he did heroine for like 30 yrs or something and then he said he just quit like 6 months ago. It was so hard to hear him with all the beeps and with his accent it was even harder. I loved this show and will watch every episode. |
Tksoard | Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 05:42 pm     I loved it too!! Did you see the look on the security guards face? That was so funny!! How often is a new one on?  |
Urgrace | Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 05:51 pm     My son has been an Ozzy fan for years, and I even warmed up to him after first despising him for coming to San Antonio and pi**ing on the Alamo. We watched it and laughed all the way through it. Ozzy was hilarious trying to get his flat screen tv/computerized remote to work. He loves watching Jay Leno and his wife talked him into doing the show. He seemed extra nervous to be on tv, and wore a ‘shirt’ netting that had long net streamers hanging off his ‘sleeves’ which was getting caught in everything, so one of the crew cut of some of the extra long offending streamers. He appeared as the singing artist, and afterwards when they watched the show on tv at home his wife said, "Next time you will be a talker on the show." There were quite a few pets around the house, all were small dogs and cats, making messes on the floor. His wife wanted to get a professional in to train the pets, and Ozzy said something like, You don't need a pet doctor - all you need to do is get up and open the door at 7 am! |
Angelnikki | Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 05:57 pm     yes i did TK but i was waiting to see if the security guard would say something and then they went to commercial. i dont think that security guard was a huge Ozzy fan(music wise) but that family is so down to earth. I loved them. Jack is great. Kelly is funny too. Its funny to see how much they fight. |
Donut | Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 08:46 pm     i went to mtv.com to email them and request closed captioning but couldnt find an address. can anyone find one?(with web tv its hard to see somethings)thanks! |
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