How Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne become TV’s favourite parents

Fans around the world mourn the Black Sabbath chief singer Ozzy Osbourne as a musical legend-but for many of them, the 76-year-old transition marked the loss of the reality television icon in the early 2000s.

Dozens after the rise to the heavy metal fame, the prince of his own style, his wife, Sharon, and two young children Kelly and Jack at that time, pioneered what the show producers describe as “Reality Sitcom”.

Before Kardashians and real housewives, there was Ozzy – the TV fought a remote control at the Beverly Hills mansion.

Somehow, the mixture of ultra -regular life and spectacular fame worked – the show continued to win an emmy and run from 2002 to 2005 in four seasons.

Andy Dehnart, the President of the Television Critics Association and the editor of the Reality Blurred website, told BBC, “Osbournes, a famous guided reality launched a TV wave,” he said.

According to Osbournes Producer Greg Johnston, they didn’t know exactly what they aimed at when the creators began to attract.

When Osbournes premiere was made, most reality was based on competition forms filled with players of daily people such as TV, Survivor, license and real world.

And a program that focuses on celebrities focused on the extremism of a rock star life, but Osbournes followed a family instead of loading the dishwasher or exercising in the home gym.

“It would be a little experiment,” he said to the BBC.

Most of the producers working on Osbournes came from the world of Sitcom, and this experience conveyed this real life family to describe it.

“When you watch the entrance loan order, it sounds as it knows the best of the Partridge family or father,” he said.

Ozzy played the role of the “Cute Jester”, which he described as “Leave Ward Cleaver to Beaver”, “Leave Ward Cleaver to Beaver”.

The about 20 -minute episodes caught stupid mascara, as Sharon threw a ham in the fence on the fence to retaliate against a high neighbor; Rock and roll lifestyles like a rehearsal for a world tour like Ozzy; In addition to Ozzy’s struggles and repeated struggles over the dog bowl, as well as disappointments of the family disappointment.

“It was a normal family, but wild and just crazy,” Mantel said to the BBC. And what appeared on the screen is “they really loved each other”.

In this Sitcom installation, Kelly and Jack fulfilled the roles of a man and sister who fought, the head producer Jeff Stillson was the BBC, Sharon’s “mother trying to keep them all together”.

Mantel, a typical father in many ways, remembered that “Ozzy just wanted to sleep on the couch and watch the channel of history.”

According to Danielle Lindemann, Professor of Sociology at the University of Lehight and True Story: What does Reality TV say about us, this tension between familiar and familiar and familiar is exactly what uses the audience.

“Ugly, we want to see Zany, but at the same time we do not want to get away from our lives so much that we will not have any relationships,” he said.

According to MTV, it was the highest -grade show when Osbournes was released. Billboard attracted 6.6 million viewers of the second season at the end of 2002 – an increase of 84% from the first season, referring to the network at that time.

The success of this new format opened the path of shows such as Nick and Jessica, which had premiere in 2003, who kept up with Kardashians in 2007 and many Real Housewives of Bravo: Nick and Jessica.

In today’s TV view, “reality” usually blinks.

However, on the Osbournes set, the idea of capturing regular life was very new, and it has not yet emerged how much they could force the narrative to producers. The producers say that the stories they have caught are at least real at the beginning and are usually based on images of about three weeks per section. These days, it usually takes only four days for the TV to attract a single section.

According to Mr. Johnston and Mr. Stillson, the film continued every day until the family slept. “They forgot the cameras were there,” Stillson said.

TV critic, Mr. Dehnart, said, “We still have no production and construction layers.”

As more viewers were adjusted, this hand -hand approach changed. For example, Kelly and Jack later announced that a land line containing a dog therapist was established for the demonstration.

According to the editor and producer Charles Kramer, working on Osbournes meant to create a new reality TV type in real time.

In his statement to the BBC, he said that the raw images to create a narrative and to organize a character’s lines from a scene – Hon was hon in Osbournes.

“Now everyone is using these terms,” he said.

Mr. Kramer, another famous guided program in Osbournes continued to work on the girls on the side, but other creators like Mr. Stillson no longer want to be part of the reality-TV universe, he said.

As Dr Lindemann points out, it may be normal for fans to access celebrities’ personal worlds today through social media.

However, in the early 2000s, the inner machines of the famous life depicted in Osbournes, the views in Tonight Show, and the business side of Sharon’s music, was much more mysterious for an average person.

Dr Lindemann, “To be able to see someone with superstar … This was a new and refreshing in the context, because people don’t seem to follow Ozzy on Twitter.” He said.

As Ozzy said to Metal Hammer in 2022, such a real life forced him to have access to life.

“It came to the point where I was emotionally disintegrated, dedi he said to the magazine,” because … you can’t relax. “

Spending young years in the light of Spot did not have any difficulty for Jack and Kelly, who wrote about their struggle against drug use in 2009 and 2017.

“I don’t think one of us is really ready,” he said in Kelly 2017, ABC’s good morning to America.

“It is difficult to put young people. But they dealt with as much as everyone can do.” He said.

After 52 episodes in four seasons, Osbournes finally ended in 2005. However, Mr. Stillson wonders if they have not finished production after the first season. After that, it became a “darker show,” he said that Sharon was diagnosed with cancer and Ozzy’s drugs and alcohol “fell out of the wagon.”

For Mr. Kramer, some of the objection to the audience admired Ozzy’s “normal people” working class history – and for the Americans, Ozzy’s “heavy” birmingham accent.

Ozzy seemed to embrace the challenging British personality on the US screens.

“You know, when they show it in England, there’s no beep (on curses). Not very fun.” He said.

Mr. Stilson doesn’t believe that Hard Edge is what makes the show successful.

“The success of the show was the sweetness and ridiculous dynamic,” he said.

“This was about a functional family – so cursed.”