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The Osbournes are Back with a New Reality Show!

Hard rock legend, Ozzy Osbourne, his wife Sharon and their children Jack and Kelly are back with a brand new reality show! This time it’s called “Osbournes Reloaded!”

(It will air Friday, December 19, 2008) This is one of my favorite rock families and I’ll be sure to Tivo every episode! They’re all so entertaining, Ozzy's hilarious and Sharon's just adorable; I’m so excited and can’t wait to see it!

Don’t get your boxers in a knot just yet, because if you’re an Ozzy fan, you’re in luck! Why?  Because they’re looking for “Ozzy’s biggest fans” to attend a taping, which will include…WAIT FOR IT…. "a very special live Ozzy Osbourne musical performance!" That’s going to rock and when I say rock, I mean rock your world! I’m excited for who-ever wins aka all those hardcore Ozzy fans out there!

Fans who want to attend should come to CBS Television City at: 7800 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeeles 90036 (Genesee Gate) at 8:30 p.m. Friday, December 19 and get there early! I can’t stress that enough, because only the first 150 people who show up will be given passes and don’t forget your ID, because only 18 years and above will be admitted! Please do not bring cameras or video or any of those sneaky video/camcorder pens they have out these days or your ass will be kicked out. Suggested parking is at The Grove.

”Osbournes Reloaded” will feature a mix of sketches, stunts, and taped segments, as well as "a ton of audience interaction." Most of the sketches reportedly parodied the "zoned-out" personality cultivated for Ozzy on the family's smash MTV reality series, "The Osbournes". After wrapping up a season of “The Osbournes” Ozzy told The Pulse of Radio last year that following the completion of "The Osbournes", he wasn't interested in doing another TV show right away. (So he gave it some time…and it's been way to long, we're all ready to see "The Osbournes" back on the tube! " He said the show was like an experiment that went way over what I ever expected it to do, Sharon and I have been offered so much TV stuff, but I can't stand it, you know. I mean, I don't like to see me on TV, I don't like to see me on film or anything, you know." But we love seeing Ozzy on TV, they're all just way to entertaining to not be on TV and we’re all stoked that they're back, I can hardly wait to see it!

"Osbournes: Reloaded" is expected to air sometime in early 2009, so keep your eyes peeled!

Ozzy is also working on a new studio album to follow up 2007's "Black Rain"

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Black Sabbath

Cream gets a nod for bringing the bass, the mighty Zep gets credit for wailing vocals and embracing the occult, and Steppenwolf gets a point for first immortalizing the phrase "heavy metal" in a song, but really, these four long-haired dudes from scruffy Birmingham brought it all home. Without Black Sabbath, there would be no heavy metal. While the band was nearly as famous for their personnel upheavals as their music, for many fans, the original lineup of Ozzy Osbourne on vocals, Tony Iommi on guitar, Geezer Butler on bass and Bill Ward on drums represents the "real" Sabbath. Black Sabbath came together in 1966 and played under a few different names before settling on Black Sabbath. They released their eponymous debut in 1970. The title track of their follow-up album, Paranoid, got significant radio airplay. The world had been exposed to Black Sabbath, and the juggernaut had begun. While Black Sabbath played with other styles and genres - such as orchestras and Gregorian chants - they are best known for darkly melodic, heavy riffs. This sound was more the result of a coincidence than anything deliberate: Tony Iommi had lost part of two fingers in an accident, and the "heavy" sound was simply a result of him downtuning his guitar to make playing easier. The 70s were the most prolific period for Sabbath; they were also the years when the pressure of their popularity led to their real-live demons coming out. Most famously, Ozzy Osbourne threw himself into alcohol and drugs with a fervor that led to his departure in 1979. He was replaced by Ronnie James Dio. While Dio's introduction brought some much-needed commercial success to the band, the fracturing of the original quartet had begun, and every other member except for Iommi would at some point rotate in and out of Black Sabbath. Dio eventually left to form Dio, and Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan came on for a short stint. After more than a decade's worth of lineup shuffling, the band hit a period of stability in the late 80s, releasing Headless Cross and TYR, both dark, occult-themed albums, to a positive reception. Most of the 90s saw more personnel shuffling along with the release of Black Sabbath's last studio album, 1995's Forbidden. However, in 1997, the original members of Black Sabbath reunited to play at Ozzy Osbourne's Ozzfest; since then, the original lineup has played together numerous times, and are reported to be working together on new material.
Sure, some of that drug-fueled mid-career stuff was nothing to write home about, and Ozzy Osbourne is better known today as the befuddled stay-at-home dad, he even had his own MTV show for a while, The Osbournes. He's also the Grand Marshall of the annual metal head Woodstock that is Ozzfest, but when these guys burst on the scene in the late 60s, there had been nothing like them before. They essentially invented heavy metal, and nearly every hard rock and heavy metal musician since them has cited Black Sabbath as a critical influence. They embraced the dark side with gusto, even when it came close to killing them, and that's why they're so kick-ass!