Originally appeared on E! Online
A project detailing Ozzy Osbourne’s life has been put on hold.
After the Black Sabbath frontman died on July 22, a BBC documentary, “Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home”, giving a look at the final years of his life alongside wife Sharon Osbourne and kids Kelly Osbourne and Jack Osbourne has been delayed from its original airdate today — Aug. 18.
Ozzy Osbourne’s official cause of death has been revealed. The rock icon passed away from a heart attack, according to a death certificate obtained by multiple outlets on Aug. 5.
“The film has moved in the schedules,” a BBC spokesperson said in a statement to US Weekly Aug. 18, “we’ll confirm new [transmission] details in due course.”
The delay of the documentary, which was previously described by the broadcast channel as “moving and inspirational account of the last chapter of Osbourne’s life” comes two years after the project was conceived as a follow up to “The Osbournes”, the family’s reality series which ran on MTV from 2002 to 2005.
E! News has reached out to BBC regarding the documentary delay but has not yet heard back.
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“It was an incredible privilege to spend the last few years with Ozzy, as well as Sharon, Jack and Kelly,” the project’s producers, Ben Wicks and Colin Barr, said in a statement earlier this month. “Ozzy wanted to make it back to the U.K. and appear on stage one last time—our film is an inspiring and poignant account of him fulfilling that dream.”
Indeed, the documentary was set to detail the journey to Ozzy’s final concert, an event labeled “Back to the Beginning,” which took place in England on July 5 and brought more than 40,000 fans together.
“Ozzy was loved by millions around the world not just for his music, but for his sense of mischief and his honesty, all of which we saw plenty of in the final years of his life,” the producers continued in a statement. “But one thing shone through even more brightly to us, and that was Ozzy’s intense love for his exceptional family, who were by his side through it all.”
A funeral service was held July 30 with a procession through Osbourne’s hometown Birmingham, England.
The late 76-year-old’s family — which also includes daughter Aimee Osbourne as well as Jessica, 53, and Louis, 50, with ex Thelma Riley — put on a united front for the ceremony and shared their own tributes to the late rocker.
“He was so many things to so many people, but I was so lucky and blessed to be a part of a very small group that got to call him ‘Dad,’” Jack Osbourne wrote in an Aug. 6 statement to Instagram. “My heart is full of so much sadness and sorrow, but also so much love and gratitude. I got 14,501 days with that man and I know that is such a blessing.”
