Everybody’s favourite television family, The Osbournes, are set to return to the small screen in a new stop-motion animated series starring Ozzy, Sharon, and their two children Jack and Kelly.
Patriarch of the family, Ozzy Osbourne, was made famous as the frontman for legendary metal group Black Sabbath who recently reformed, announcing they were embarking on a world tour and working on the first album together since 1978’s Never Say Die.
The Osbournes television series ushered in a new era of docu drama reality television programming and was an international smash hit and a notch in Sharon’s quest to keep the family relevant and famous, regardless of the consequences (see: The Kardashians).
The new television show is being produced by Toronto’s Cuppa Cofee Studios produced MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch, and 20 episodes have already been commissioned. Ozzy, Sharon, Jack and Kelly Osbourne will voice themselves in the series, which Jack swears will be “a radical and humorous new spin on our family.”
“Teaming up with Cuppa Coffee has spawned a great opportunity to produce a unique animated prime-time show,” said Sharon, who shares executive producer credit with her son, Jack. “I’ve been excited about animating our often crazy lives for a while now.”
The show’s title, The F’n Osbournes, seems to suggest that the profanity that made the original series infamous will not be toned down, as Cuppa Coffee founder Adam Sheehan stresses saying “although it is a cartoon, it’s certainly not one for little kids, bearing in mind the family that are at the root of it.”
The last time the family appeared on television together was in 2009 when Fox tried to relive The Osbournes television series with Osbournes: Reloaded. The series was promptly cancelled after only one episode.
