His documentary soap “The Osbournes” won an Emmy 20 years ago, among other things. Ozzy Osbourne opens up about why he lost interest in the show.
Rock musician Ozzy Osbourne sees big changes in reality TV since the early 2000s. “I think what we call reality TV today doesn’t actually show reality,” the 75-year-old told the music magazine “Spin.” It is a kind of scripted reality. In scripted reality, real events are only simulated and there are stage directions for scenes and dialogues.
In his own documentary soap “The Osbournes,” which gave insights into his family life and won an Emmy in 2002, people still saw “what really happened,” said Osbourne. “The reality show was nothing more than our normal lives because that’s just who we are.”
The Kardashians then “went one step further” than his family with their own show (“Keeping Up with the Kardashians”, 2007-2021), the Brit mused. “They saw what we did – and said, ‘That’s a good idea,’ but then they organized themselves.” What the Kardashians did was a kind of scripted reality. “It’s not unadulterated.”
With the Osbournes, after three years, the producers and the broadcaster MTV, to which he had brought record viewership with his show, began to ask his family “to do things that we normally wouldn’t do,” said the rock musician. “At that point I lost interest in it.”
Source: Stern
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