How Ozy and Sharon become the favorite parents of Osbourne TV

Fans around the world are mourning the lead singer of Black Sabbath as a music legend-but for many people, the 76-year-old also marked the loss of the early reality television icon of the 2000s.

After his rise for heavy metal fame, the self-styled prince of darkness, his wife Sharon and his two teenage children Kelly and Jack acted in MTV’s The Osbornness, described as “Reality SICOM” by the show’s makers.

Prior to Kardashian and Real Housewives, Ozi – was battling with a TV remote at his Beverly Hills Haveli.

Somehow, a mixture of ultra -sensory life and magnificent fame worked – the show went on to win Amy from 2002 to 2005 and went for four sessions.

Andy Dahant, president of the Television Critics Association and editor of the reality Blurrered website, said, “Osbornness kicked a wave of celebrity-powered reality TVs,” Andy Deetets, President of the Television Critics Association and editor of the reality Blurrered website told the BBC.

According to Osbournes executive producer Greg Johnson, the creators did not know what goals they were when they started making a film.

When Osborn’s premiere was based on most of the reality TV competition formats, which were inhabited with the artists of everyday people, such as Aurvivor, The Bachelor and Real World.

And although a program focused on famous celebrities could focus on the excesses of a rock-star’s life, Osbornness followed a family instead because they loaded the dishwasher or exercised in the home gym.

“It was going to be an experiment,” Mr. Johnson told the BBC.

Many manufacturers working on osborns came from SITOM World, and shifted that experience to portray this real -life family.

“When you see the intro credit sequence, it is very much liked as the partrian family or father knows the best,” Dr. Brandi monk-pattern, an auxiliary communication and media professor and television researcher at the University of Fordham said.

Ozi played part of “Cute Buffoon”, Dr. Monk-Paton said, the manufacturer of the Osbornerce segment, Henryt Mantel described the middle-aged winding as “ward cleaver to acid”.

The episode of about 20 minutes captured silly antics, such as Sharon threw a baked ham on the fence to retaliate against a loud neighbor; His rock-and-rol lifestyle, such as Ozi rehearsing for a world tour; Also slapstick family frustrations, such as Ozi’s repeated conflicts with tripping on dog bowls.

“It was a normal family, but it was wild and it was just crazy,” Ms. Mantel told the BBC. And what came on the screen is “they really loved each other”.

In that prescript set-up, Kelly and Jack completed the roles of a squabbing brother and sister, executive manufacturer Jeff Stilson told the BBC, while Sharon was “trying to keep the mother together”.

In many ways, a distinguished father, Ms. Mantel, recalled that “Oji just wanted … lay on the couch and looked at the history channel”.

The tension between familiar and unfamiliar is actually the reality TV audience, Professor of Sociology and author of True Story at Leh University. According to Daniel Lindman: Does reality TV say about us.

“We want to see derogatory, Zani, but at the same time, we do not want it to be removed from our lives so much that we cannot be related at all,” he said.

According to MTV, Osborn was its highest rated show when it broadcast. The second season premiere in late 2002 attracted 6.6 million viewers – up to 84% from the first season, Bilboard described the network at the time.

The success of this new format paved the way for shows such as newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, which premiered in 2003, with Kardashian in 2007 and with the qualities of many real housewives of Bravo.

In today’s TV scenario, “reality” is often presented with an eye.

But on the set of osborns, the idea of capturing regular life was so new, it was not yet for producers how far they could push the story. The manufacturers say the stories he had caught was real, at least in the beginning, and usually based on the footage of about three weeks per episode. These days, reality TVs usually take just four days to shoot the same episode.

According to Mr. Johnson and Mr. Stillson, filming used to run continuously every day until the family went to sleep. “They forgot that the cameras were there,” said Mr. Stilson.

TV critic Mr. Dehanart warned: “There are still layers of production and manufacturing that we are not watching.”

This hand-clot approach changed, as more audiences had tuned. For example, Kelly and Jack later revealed that a plot line involving a dog therapist was installed for the show.

According to Editor and producer Charles Cramer, working on Osbornness means making a new reality TV style in real time.

Editing of raw footage and using “Frankankot” to create a story – Trops to edit a character lines from one scene to another – all were honored on osborns, he told the BBC.

“Now everyone uses those conditions,” he said.

Whatever Mr. Kremer learned, he learned to work on another celebrity-conditioned program, The Girls Next Door on Osborner, although other creators like Mr. Stillson said that he no longer wanted to be a part of the reality-TV universe.

As Dr. Lindman says, it may still make it normal for fans to reach the individual world of celebrities through social media.

But in the early 2000s, the internal machines of celebrity life were painted in osborns, such as the managing the trading of the music of Ozi’s music-side in the show tonight, were much more mysterious to the average person.

Dr. Lindman said, “To be able to see someone who is a superstar … was new and refreshed in somewhat reliable context, because it is not that people were following Ozi on Twitter.”

Such real -life access took his toll, as Ozi told Metal Hammer in 2022 that he felt like a “laboratory rat” after spending three years with cameras for three years, although he said he was not “embarrassed” of the program.

“It reached the point where I was getting emotionally separated,” he told the magazine, “because you can’t … rest”.

Spotlight in his teenage years was also not without difficulty for Jack and Kelly, who wrote about his struggles with the use of drugs in books released in 2009 and 2017.

“I don’t think either of us were really ready for fame, Kelly told ABC’s Good Morning America in 2017.

“It is a difficult situation that it is a difficult situation to keep the teenagers inside. But they handled it and also handled anyone,” Mr. Stilson said.

After 52 episodes in four sessions, Osbornness eventually ended in 2005. But Mr. Stilson wonders if he should have finished production after the first season. After this it became a “Darkar Show”, he said, as Sharon came to know of cancer and Ozi “fell from wagon” with drugs and alcohol.

For Mr. Kreer, the appeal to the audience was Ozi’s “regular folk” working -class background – and for Americans, an attraction with Ozi’s “Heavy” Birmingham accents.

Ozi seemed to embrace the hard-scrable British personality that appeared on the American screen.

“You know, when they show it in England, there is no blaps (at oath). It’s not so fun,” he told Rolling Stone in 2002.

Mr. Stilson believes that the hard age made the show a success.

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

“It was about a functional family – who cursed a lot.”