Overview

• The BBC One film, Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, premiered on October 2 and is streaming on iPlayer after being reworked from a planned multi-part series filmed over three years.
• It follows the couple’s move back to England and shows Ozzy’s late-life health struggles, including a brief interview days after his Villa Park show where he speaks of stepping back from public life.
• Coverage emphasizes his July 5 Black Sabbath farewell in Birmingham, which he partly performed seated due to Parkinson’s and spinal issues, and his July 22 death at home aged 76.
• Reports cite his death certificate listing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease with autonomic dysfunction as joint causes.
• Viewers responded with visible emotion, and critics questioned the balance between commemoration and privacy, as a separate feature-length documentary, Ozzy: No Escape From Now, is scheduled to debut on Paramount+ on October 7.