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Exclusive: The BBC is locked in conversations over the future of a long-gestating documentary series about the Osbourne family following the death of Ozzy on Tuesday.

The BBC greenlit Home to Roost in 2022, a 10-part series following Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne as they returned to the UK from Los Angeles with the help of their children, Kelly and Jack.

The show was conceived as a spiritual (but not official) successor to The Osbournes, the anarchic fly-on-the-wall series that aired on MTV between 2002 and 2005.

Three years on from the BBC’s greenlight, however, Home to Roost has yet to premiere, despite producer Expectation having filmed with the family for a number of months.

Related: Kelly Osbourne Reacts To Father Ozzy’s Death With Black Sabbath Lyrics: “Best Friend I Ever Had”

Sources told Deadline that there is hope Home to Roost can still make it to air in some form. Those...

Oscar-winning Ukraine-Russia war documentary 20 Days in Mariupol from Frontline, PBS and The AP, took home awards in two categories at The Grierson Trust’s 2024 British Documentary Awards on Wednesday night.

In association with All3Media, the ceremony took place at London’s Roundhouse arts and music venue, where Channel 4 took home the highest number of prizes with five, followed by the BBC with three and Netflix with two.

Mstyslav Chernov’s 20 Days in Mariupol, which won the Academy Award for best documentary earlier this year, earned the best current affairs documentary and best cinema documentary awards Wednesday. Me and the Voice in My Head, produced by Hungry Bear Media for Channel 4 won the best single documentary – Domestic award, with Joe Tracini winning the best documentary presenter.

This year’s award winners spanned a wide range of subjects with powerful documentaries on the war in Ukraine, a Turkish singer...

Exclusive: Fremantle has picked up global distribution rights to Hell Jumper, the BBC’s upcoming doc series about a British aid worker who died in Ukraine.

Produced by Clarkson’s Farm maker Expectation and revealed by Deadline last year, Hell Jumper uses first-person footage to follow a group of volunteers who set out to save lives during the war.

Chris Parry headed out in a white van with friends and took to TikTok and Instagram to show footage of their daring rescues, but he and another volunteer, Andrew Bagshaw, were tragically killed trying to save an elderly woman trapped in her home.

Fremantle will sell outside the UK as the show gets set to launch on the BBC in the coming weeks. The producer-distributor’s international senior acquisitions boss Céire Clark described Hell Jumper as a “remarkable tale of resilience.”

“We’re looking forward to sharing this extraordinary and heart-wrenching story,...

Singer Ozzy and his wife Sharon Osbourne are returning to reality TV. The reigning couple of metal have signed on to a new docuseries titled ‘Home to Roost’, which will document their journey back to Britain as they restart their lives in the countryside.

“The series will follow the Osbournes as they celebrate one of their most important years yet – with everything from Sharon’s 70th birthday to Kelly’s soon-to-be-born baby, Ozzy’s tour, and of course the big move itself,” reads the logline, reports Variety.

The docuseries, which is announced exactly 20 years after their original show ‘The Osbournes’ first launched on MTV, will also follow the couple as they deal with health challenges as well as ageing.

It will air on BBC One and iPlayer in the UK International sales, including in the US, have not yet been announced. Banijay Rights are handling international distribution.

Ozzy recently revealed...

Two decades after the world heard Ozzy Osbourne repeatedly shout “Sharrrrrrrrrooooonnnn” on MTV’s reality TV series “The Osbournes,” the first family of heavy metal have a new show in the works.

“Home to Roost,” which will air on BBC One and iPlayer in the U.K., will follow Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne as they leave Los Angeles to move back to Britain. Banijay Rights will handle international distribution for the show.

Jack and Kelly Osbourne, who grew up on “The Osbournes,” will be seen in the episodes supporting their “mum” and dad as they re-start their lives in Buckinghamshire, England. The show will feature Sharon’s 70th birthday, Ozzy’s tour, the move and Kelly’s pregnancy journey.

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The new series will span 10 30-minute episodes and is a collaboration between Expectation’s Factual and Entertainment teams.

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne will soon be back on the small screen. The couple will star in a new series, Home to Roost, which will document their journey back to the U.K. as they relocate to the English countryside.

The series, announced 20 years after the family’s original show The Osbournes premiered on MTV, is set to air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the U.K. in 2023 but has yet to receive U.S. distribution. The pair’s daughter Kelly will also appear.

The log line teases,...

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are returning to U.K. – and to reality TV.

The reigning couple of metal have signed on to a new docuseries titled “Home to Roost,” which will document their journey back to Britain as they re-start their lives in the countryside.

“The series will follow the Osbournes as they celebrate one of their most important years yet – with everything from Sharon’s 70th birthday to Kelly’s soon-to-be-born baby, Ozzy’s tour, and of course the big move itself,” promises the logline.

The docu-series, which is announced exactly 20 years after their original show “The Osbournes” first launched on MTV, will also follow the couple as they deal with health challenges as well as ageing.

It will air on BBC One and iPlayer in the U.K. International sales, including in the U.S., have not yet been announced. Banijay Rights are handling international distribution.

Ozzy recently...

The BBC is bringing back MTV classic The Osbournes as Sharon and Ozzy return to the UK.

Home to Roost from The Steph Show producer Expectation will see the globe’s most iconic reality TV family come back to the nation they lived in for years, as they attempt to re-start their lives in rural Buckinghamshire.

The Osbournes was a huge MTV hit two decades ago, charting the family when they first moved to LA to restart their lives.

Home to Roost will follow the Osbournes as they celebrate Sharon Osbourne’s 70th birthday and daughter Kelly Osbourne’s soon-to-be-born baby. The Osbournes ran from 2001 to 2005.

“This promises to be a funny, moving and honest insight into their new life in the UK,” said BBC Head of Documentary Commissioning Clare Sillery.

Home to Roost was commissioned by Sillery. Ben Wicks, Colin Barr and Louisa McKay are exec producing. Banijay Rights will handle international distribution.

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“Floodlights,” a feature-length single drama for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer tells the story of Andy Woodward, the former professional soccer player whose revelations about the sexual abuse he suffered as a youth player sent shockwaves throughout the industry. In 2016, Woodward went public about sexual abuse by his youth coach, Barry Bennell. After doing so, hundreds more men, many also victims of Bennell, found the courage to speak up about their experiences of abuse, lifting the lid on a national scandal in the U.K.’s most popular sport.

Gerard Kearns (“The Last Kingdom”) portrays Woodward and the cast also includes Jonas Armstrong (“Hollington Drive”), Morven Christie (“Lockwood & Co”) and Steve Edge (“Benidorm”).

“Floodlights,” made with the full cooperation of Woodward, is written by BAFTA-winning screenwriter, Matt Greenhalgh and directed by BAFTA-nominated Nick Rowland (“Calm With Horses”). It is produced by Expectation, part of BBC Studios’ portfolio of indies...

The Plot Against America actor Anthony Boyle and Toby Jones, the star of Captain America and The Girl, are to topline a BBC Two drama that will tell the real-life story of how a war hero goes on to be accused of murder.

Working titled Danny Boy, the feature-length film is made by Expectation (producer of Sky’s David Schwimmer comedy Intelligence), written by BAFTA-winning Murder scribe Robert Jones, and directed by I May Destroy You’s Sam Miller.

Boyle will play war hero Brian Wood who is humbled when he is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner, played by Jones. The two men go head-to-head in a legal and moral conflict that moves from the battlefield to the courtroom and one of Britain’s biggest ever public inquiries.

Alex Ferns (Chernobyl) and Leah McNamara (Normal People) also feature as Woods’ father and wife respectively.

Tim Hincks and Peter Fincham’s UK production company Expectation is bolstering its factual division with the hire of Maverick TV’s Emily Dollman.

Dollman has been appointed Head of Development at the BBC Studios-backed production group’s factual division. She was previously Head of Development at All3Media-owned Maverick.

She will join the team run by Colin Barr and Amy Flanagan, which also includes senior executive producers Ruth Kelly and Dominique Foster.

Dollman’s previous credits include Channel 4’s Escape and Tried and Tasted as well as forthcoming ITV doc series The Ritz. She has also worked on shows such as The Apprentice, The Voice and The Audience.

Expectation Factual Creative Director, Factual and Factual Drama Colin Barr said, “Emily has all the cross genre instincts and abilities that a company like Expectation needs. She’s as comfortable with concept as she is editorial and her energy...

Projects from Riz Ahmed, David Harewood and The Fall creator Allan Cubitt lead an ambitious line-up of new commissions from BBC Two. The British public broadcaster has unveiled a huge slate of shows for its second channel ranging from high-end dramas and comedies through to documentary series.

In drama, it has ordered Englistan, created by The Night Of star Riz Ahmed. The nine-part series, which is produced by BBC Studios Drama London and Ahmed’s own Left Handed Films, is the story of three generations of a British Pakistani families as they pursue their dreams over four tumultuous decades, navigating shifting circumstances and evolving loyalties. The drama will re-frame recent British history, and shine a light on the forces that have remade British society what it is today. It will be exec produced by Ahmed, Esther Springer, Hilary Salmon and Lucy Richer.

The Fall creator Cubitt is adapting Eugene McCabe...

BBC Three is to air a fact-based musical drama.

Glasgow Girls will tell the true story of a group of schoolgirls who campaigned to save their friend from deportation, and started a movement that led to a change in immigration laws in Scotland.

The 60-minute drama stars Gary Lewis (Billy Elliot) and Greg Hemphill (Still Game), as well as Kirstie Steele, Erin Armstrong, Letitia Wright, Aruhan Galieva and Olivia Popica.

Brian Welsh (The Escape Artist) is directing from a script he co-wrote with Joe Barton. The drama has been commissioned by the BBC to coincide with its Commonwealth Games programming this summer.

Zai Bennett, Former Controller for BBC Three, said: "Glasgow Girls is a thrilling blend of true story, high drama and musical storytelling. Only a channel like BBC Three would attempt to re-tell a hard hitting immigration story in this way."

Executive producer Colin Barr said: "This true story...

Dominic West, Emily Watson and Monica Dolan won acting awards at the TV BAFTAs today for their roles in Appropriate Adult, a miniseries about Britain’s controversial investigation of serial killer Fred West and his wife Rosemary. Dominic West played Fred, Watson portrayed a social worker in the case and Dolan played Rosemary — beating Dame Maggie Smith who was nominated for Downton Abbey. Andrew Scott was voted best supporting actor for Sherlock, in which he plays the arch-nemesis Moriarty to Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes. Cumberbash was nominated for best actor but lost to Dominic West. But Appropriate Adult lost to another miniseries, This Is England ’88. Complete list of winners: Leading Actor — Dominic West, Appropriate Adult - ITV1 Leading Actress — Emily Watson, Appropriate Adult - ITV1 Supporting Actor — Andrew Scott, Sherlock - BBC One Supporting Actress — Monica Dolan, Appropriate Adult - ITV1 Drama Series — The Fades, Susan Hogg, Caroline Skinner,...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced Tuesday (April 24) the nominations for its 2012 television awards. British miniseries "Appropriate Adult," which chronicles the real-life serial killer Fred West, leads the way with four nominations.

Other notable nominations include Dame Maggie Smith up for Supporting Actress for her work on "Downton Abbey" - it's the only nomination "Downton" received, after earning two nominations the previous year. "Modern Family" also earned a nomination in the International category.

The full list of nominations:

Leading Actor

Benedict Cumberbatch - Sherlock (BBC One)

Dominic West - Appropriate Adult (ITV)

John Simm - Exile (BBC One)

Joseph Gilgun - This is England '88 (Channel 4)

Leading Actress

Emily Watson - Appropriate Adult (ITV1)

Nadine Marshall - Random (Channel 4)

Romola Garai - The Crimson Petal and the White (BBC Two)

Vicky McClure - This is England '88 (Channel 4)

Supporting Actor

Andrew Scott - Sherlock...

Tom Payne is done acting like a teenager. As the Essex, England–born actor pointedly puts it, “I’m 26, and I’m finally getting to play characters in their early twenties.” After a small but attention-grabbing role in Bharat Nalluri’s 2008 romantic comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Payne has now been given the opportunity to slip into some adult-size boots. He was recently selected by director Colin Barr to play soccer legend George Best, the 1960s Manchester United superstar who was a notorious party animal and his era’s David Beckham, for a forthcoming BBC biopic. The dashing British actor has the same dark eyes and slender frame as the wing wizard Best, but says the similarities end when it comes to the soccer field: “I recently played my first game since school,” Payne recounts. “After 15 minutes I was knackered. It was all actors, so anytime someone fell...

Cologne, Germany -- The Cologne Conference, Germany's largest TV festival/confab, kicked off Wednesday night with a gala screening of the BBC's "10 Days to War," an award-winning docudrama on the countdown to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The film's mix of hard fact with dramatic technique, its unique format -- with eight stand-alone episodes of 12 minutes each -- and its impressive cast, which includes Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Rea and Juliet Stevenson, were some of the topics covered in an exclusive Q&A between "10 Days" producer Colin Barr, director Bruce Goodison and The Hollywood Reporter editor Elizabeth Guider.

Barr detailed the phenomenal speed at which the production was made -- five months from pitching the original idea to the finished series.

Financing came through after Branagh agreed to play Col. Tim Collins, an Irish commander who gives his men a "tread softly" speech on the eve of the invasion.

"The speech was...