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The Osbourne Family: Crawling Back to Your Television Set

Sigh.

The Osbournes just won’t quit.

The quirky (read: annoying and overexposed) family has signed with Fox to do six episodes of a variety show.

Yeah, that’s right, a variety show. Because that’s what American audiences care about these days.

The plan is to blend musical performances by the Osbournes and others with comedy sketches, as well as a game-show element and audience participation bits.

Oh, man, this totally means Kelly Osbourne’s going to try to kick-start that music career once again.

And to make matters worse, they plan to kick things off with a Christmas special.

You know, I’m not entirely sure how studios decide whether or not to greenlight these things. I’m sure there are lots of focus groups, market studies, financial assessments, etc, but I think in the future they should just skip all that. It would be way more cost-effective to just come to me and be like, “Evil Beet, is this concept going to work?” And, in this case, I would be like “No, Fox. No, it is not,” and we would have just saved everybody a ton of time, money and aggravation. Instead, everybody’s going to have to find out the hard way.

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  • … how did this get past a focus group? Isn’t everyone in America sick of them by now?

  • I used to watch the show … I thought it was amusing UNTIL I saw Sharon’s profile on IWIPEDMYVAGJUICEONMYCHILD .COM … and then it was officially over for me. Anybody else see that episode? ugh.

  • OMG – give it up – like a lot of people in the UK I am pig sick of the sight of Sharon Osborne.

  • Oh great here we go again… And that only means i’m gonna have to watch this shit because my husband finds this family way too funny.. Fuck i’m so tired of these kinda shows, and reality shows and all the bullshit that’s on tv lately.. Here in canada is all we get.. BORING!!!

  • I LOVE Sharon O and her family and I can’t wait to see more of her. I do not think that the show will be boring. Sharon is a no bullshit kind of woman and love her for that. Phillip.