About seven years ago, MTV launched one of it’s more successful programs sort-of-related-to-music-but-not-really programs, The Osbournes. A new era of reality TV was ushered in that mixed good ol’ fashion family values with good ol’ fashion profanity. Though the show ran it’s course, FOX seems to think that people will still tune in to see the most incoherent member of the family host a variety show.
As the NY Daily News reports:
Also new is a variety show hosted by Ozzy Osbourne and family, called “Osbournes: Reloaded,” which will mix musical performances, comedy sketches, game-show competitions and, most likely, more than its fair share of expletives.
“There’s always curiosity as to what this family is going to do,” said Reilly. “And right now, the reality genre is a mature genre. There’s a lot of versions of versions, so a variety show starring the Osbournes, you’re not going to mistake that for six other shows on the air.”
Half of the good news is that it sounds like Ozzy will likely has his family to translate assist him with hosting duties. The other half sounds is that it seems as though the show will actually feature musical performances, which means that the Osbournes’ show on FOX will have more music programming than their show on MTV did. Strange.
Another odd bit is that FOX wants to lump this into the “reality TV” category. This sounds a little more like Letterman or Conan than Survivor. Is NBC going to call Jay Leno’s primetime endeavor “reality TV?” I guess those two words are still buzzworthy in Hollywood.
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