Paramount+’s Ozzy Osbourne documentary has revealed its premiere date several weeks after the BBC indefinitely delayed its own film about the late Black Sabbath icon.
Ozzy: No Escape From today will launch October 7 on Paramount+ in the U.S. and around the world excluding Japan. movie the emotional trailer below.
Directed by Tania Alexander, the feature-length doc has been produced “in collaboration with the Osbourne family,” Paramount said. Alongside Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, children Aimee, Kelly and Jack Osbourne speak candidly about the late-night fall their father suffered in February 2019 and the subsequent life-changing impact of that accident, which ultimately led to him cancelling his two-and-a-half-year farewell tour. Detailing his numerous corrective surgeries, escalating health issues and the progressive effects of his Parkinson’s diagnosis, the feature highlights how the superstar’s ongoing chronic pain impacted his mental health and informed the track he made during this period.
Osbourne died in July, two weeks after reuniting with Black Sabbath for a special reunion concert in his home city of Birmingham, which will also be covered in the Paramount+ doc.
Shortly after his death, the BBC was due to air its own Osbourne documentary, Coming Home, but it was pulled from the schedules hours before launch due to the BBC’s desire to “respect the family’s wishes.” An alternative premiere date has not yet been set. That film charts Osbourne’s life with contribution from Sharon, Jack and Kelly, and has been heavily altered from the previously-commissioned Home to Roost BBC series that was forged as a spiritual successor to MTV’s anarchic mid-noughties series The Osbournes, focusing on the family’s return home to the UK.
The Paramount+ doc’s lauch will today precede the BBC’s. Last month, The Sun reported that Osbourne family members had been concerned that the team behind the BBC doc were rushing in order to get it on air faster than Paramount.
Ozzy: No Escape From today is produced by Echo Velvet (It’s Showtime, Kids Like Us), in partnership with the Osbournes & MTV Entertainment Studios. The documentary is executive produced by Bruce Gillmer and Amanda Culkowski (MTV Entertainment Studios), Phil Alexander (Echo Velvet; former Editor-in-Chief, MOJO, Q, Kerrang!) and Sharon Osbourne (Sharon Osbourne Management).
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