Osbournes Reloaded: Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne and family in new TV 'variety show'

Six years after the Osbournes shot to fame in MTV's fly-on-the-wall reality show, they are heading back to television in Osbournes Reloaded on the US network Fox.

The programme will feature skits, impersonations, audience games, candid camera-style filming and a liberal sprinkling of four-letter words. It will air on Fox in the spring.

"It is family viewing. We might have a few old age pensioners being kissed, and stripping grandmas, but it is all good clean fun. There is nothing mean-spirited about it," said Mike Darnell, president of alternative entertainment for Fox.

"We are letting them go as far as they can. They are raunching and funny and also a warm, real family."

Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy will give the odd performance, while Pamela Anderson will be among the celebrity guests.

There will also be a pair of "mini-Osbournes" - two child actors who dress, behave and talk as outrageously as Ozzy and Sharon.

Asked why he had agreed to do the new show, Ozzy replied: "I'm willing to try anything once. We are a very dysfunctional family, doing a very dysfunctional show."

The MTV Osbournes series ran for three years and followed the adventures of rock's most famous family.

Ozzy said the only change in him since the last series was that "I put a new suit on this morning".

A variety show may not be the first form of entertainment that springs to mind with the Osbournes, and Kelly agrees. She said: "The word 'variety' frightens us. No disrespect to other variety shows of the past - it's just not what we do. We're not going to be Sonny and Cher-ing it."


- telegraph.co.uk