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MTV Wants More 'Osbournes'
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(Tuesday, July 08 09:33 PM)

By Rick Porter

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - To borrow an MTV phrase, "The Osbournes" isn't exactly buzzworthy these days.

It is, however, still the highest-rated series on MTV, which has no plans to pull the plug. The cable network has ordered 20 new episodes of the show, which will begin airing in early 2004.

"If you thought we wouldn't re-sign the Osbournes for another season, you're crazy," MTV President Van Toffler says in a statement. " 'The Osbournes' is a bona fide hit on MTV, and we will continue to work with the family to give our audience more of the rock-star family drama that they crave."

Appearing at the TV Critics Association press tour Tuesday (July Cool

, patriarch Ozzy Osbourne joked that he "missed the f---in' cameras," so he invited them back in.

"It's been a hell of a journey," Osbourne says. "I've been from the gates of Buckingham Palace to the gates of hell" during his wife Sharon's battle with cancer. He's also had to endure son Jack's recent stint at a drug rehabilitation facility. Ozzy calls Jack "my hero" for coming to his parents with his problem.

"It's been an adventure, and I didn't want the adventure to end."

Cameras will likely re-enter the Osbourne household in the fall to film the new episodes.

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by Joal Ryan
Jul 8, 2003, 5:15 PM PT

Ozzy Osbourne supports anti-marijuana laws? Yeah, right. And he and his family want MTV to keep camping out in their living room.

Well, uh...

It's strange, but true on both counts: The supposedly camera-chastened Osbournes are on board for another season of The Osbournes; the once-hard-living Ozzy is denouncing drugs--all of 'em.

First about The Osbournes:

MTV announced Tuesday it has locked in the first family of the F-bomb for 20 more episodes, scheduled to begin airing early next year.

"If you thought we wouldn't resign the Osbournes...you're crazy," MTV president Van Toffler said in a statement.

If you did doubt the surreality show's continued existence, it's also possible you were just listening to Sharon Osbourne.

Last November, Ozzy's wily wife and manager complained to Barbara Walters that MTV's cameras had become too much. "I can't throw up on my own," said the then-chemo-weakened Sharon, "and Ozzy can't get drunk on his own."

The family would finish out the second season, "but after that's, it's over," Sharon Osbourne said.

Of course, even before the Walters interview aired, Sharon Osbourne phoned Toffler to reassure him that "you can't believe everything I say."

Which brings us to Tuesday.

On Tuesday, Ozzy's missus, now in remission from colon cancer and prepping her own syndicated afternoon talk show, said "there's been a hollow empty feeling in [her] heart since the MTV crew left the Osbourne residence."

She was joking.

But she wasn't joking about her motive for sealing the deal she said she wouldn't make.

"How lucky am I to have MTV with us for another year filming home movies of my family...and pay us for it?" Sharon Osbourne asked, in a statement.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The clan's last contract was reported to be worth between $5 million and $20 million.

In likely shelling out more big bucks for dad Ozzy, mom Sharon, teens Jack, Kelly and Robert Marcato, the family friend turned permanent resident, MTV conceded the show's ratings aren't what they used to be.

The Osbournes' first season, running from March-May 2002, was a "media feeding frenzy," as the network put it. The wholly ordinary antics of Ozzy's 90210-based brood (See Ozzy pick up dog poop! Hear Kelly and Jack argue!) averaged about 8 million viewers--a monster number for a cable show.

Since then, the show has "settled," per MTV, into more mortal ratings--about 6.6 million at the start of the second season in November, down to about 3 million for the second half of the second season (sometimes I.D.'d as the third season) this summer.

Still, even with dwindling returns, The Osbournes currently ranks as MTV's second-highest rated show, behind The Real World: Paris.

No word yet on what storylines will be featured in the all-new episodes. For now, MTV says only that its cameras will again have 24-hour access to the outspoken bunch.

Of course, 24 hours a day isn't always enough with the Osbournes. While Sharon's cancer battle was played out for the cameras, the second season's other big story--Jack's rehab stay--wasn't.

The 17-year-old club kid checked into a clinic in April after shooting had ended for the season.

While reports said Jack Osbourne was wilting under the spotlight, the media-savvy teen is showing no signs of becoming media shy.

He discusses his drug troubles, including his addiction to the prescription painkiller OxyContin, in an MTV News interview, scheduled to air Tuesday night.

During that special, dad Ozzy renounces just about every substance harder than decaf.

"I used to think they should legalize pot, but you know what? They should ban the lot," the 55-year-old headbanger tells MTV News. "One thing leads to another. Coffee leads to Red Bull, Red Bull leads to crank."

The elder Osbourne, who reveals he will need medication the rest of his life due to "neurological damage" caused by his own partying, says he was shocked by how fast his son went from smoking marijuana to "doing hillbilly heroin," a nickname for OxyContin.

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