The trailer for the upcoming posthumous BBC Ozzy Osbourne documentary Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home is a homecoming on several levels. The film, which is set to debut on the BBC One and iPlayer Oct. 2, chronicles Ozzy and wife/manager Sharon Osbourne’s long-held dream of returning to their native England after years spent living in Los Angeles.
And, in the wake of Ozzy’s death on July 22 at 76-years-old, it’s also the first chance longtime fans will get to see the Prince of Darkness off stage in the years before his passing, hanging with his family and being a jokey cut-up in his inimitable fashion. In a throwback to the warts-and-all silliness of the family’s legendary MTV reality show, The Osbournes, Coming Home appears to lean into the domestic comedy of the Osbourne clan, opening with a jittery Ozzy begging Sharon to stop driving in a herky-jerky manner.
“Stop it! Stop! Don’t Drive!” he begs her as the footage takes viewers from the family’s L.A. home — where Ozzy is seen belching in the kitchen as he gets his blood pressure measured — to a shot of the singer saying he’s “so looking forward” to an English summer.
The next bit is literally one of Ozzy gearing up to take a shot at something with a mounted air rifle as Sharon talks about how the family has always considered their English mansion as their true home. “It looks magnificent, Sharon,” Ozzy says as they drive up to the house. “I always, always told Ozzy, when you’re 70 we say goodbye,” she says as Ozzy adds that he “can’t wait” until they are back on British soil.
The film covering the final three years of Ozzy’s life was originally slated to air on August 18 before the BBC pulled it from its schedule at the last minute per the family’s request. The initial air date would have been less than a month after Ozzy’s death, which came two weeks after the rock icon performed his final show, the all-star Back to the Beginning blow-out, at his home soccer stadium, Villa Park, in his hometown of Birmingham, England.
In between shots of Ozzy recording vocals and laughing on the couch, Sharon claims that despite their hard rock royalty reputation, “We’re quite normal. We’re quite boring.” Ozzy, however, has a different take, grumbling, “I wouldn’t say we’re f–king normal,” as he grins about making a weed cake and taking it to the local pub, where “the vicar came round and ate” some of it.
When Sharon asks Ozzy is he’s ready for a quite life now after 50 years of rocking and road work, he says, “yes… but no,” with daughter Kelly saying she doesn’t think it’s possible for either of her parents to retire. The footage ends with Ozzy saying he finally feels like he’s home again and looking forward to doing “absolutely nothing” as Sharon shows off her framed collection of love notes Ozzy has left for her over the years.
An earlier description of the movie said it will be a “candid and moving portrait” of one of Birmingham’s favorite sons, and his relationship with Sharon as the couple faced a “monumental battle, both on a professional and personal level” due to the effects of Parkinson’s disease on the heavy metal icon, as well as the aftermath of a painful spinal surgery.
The BBC film will air five days before another emotional movie covering Ozzy’s final years, Ozzy: No Escape From Now, premieres on Paramount+ on Oct. 7. That doc will follow Ozzy in the six years before his death and feature Sharon, as well as their children, Aimee, Jack and Kelly, describing the devastating effects of a late-night fall Ozzy suffered in Feb. 2019 that forced the cancellation of his planned two-and-a-half-year farewell tour.
Watch the Coming Home trailer below.
