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Ozzy Osbourne documentary pulled from schedule at last minute

A new documentary about Ozzy Osbourne has been abruptly pulled from the TV schedule hours before its planned broadcast on Monday evening.

Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, which the Black Sabbath rocker worked on before his death in July, was set to air on BBC One and iPlayer in the U.K. at 9 pm.

However, the one-off documentary was abruptly pulled from the schedule on Monday morning and replaced with the programme Fake or Fortune?

No reason was given for the last-minute decision, with a spokesperson for the BBC telling the Mirror that the film has "moved in the schedules" and "new premiere details will be shared in due course".

In 2022, the project was originally conceived as a documentary series titled Home to Roost, which was set to follow Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's move back to their native England after two decades of living in America.

However, the programme evolved over the years due to Ozzy's deteriorating health and became a one-hour film.

Filmed over three years, the documentary also follows the Crazy Train singer as he attempts to regain his fitness in order to perform live for the last time in Birmingham on 5 July, despite battling health issues, including Parkinson's disease.

The film also features contributions from Ozzy and Sharon's children, Jack and Kelly.

The official synopsis reads, "It's a remarkably candid and uplifting tribute to one of the world's true icons, and documents the first family of rock as they are forced to accept, that, as Kelly says in the film, 'Iron man wasn't really made of iron.'"

Ozzy passed away on 22 July at the age of 76.

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