Osbournes Get Reloaded For TV

If you've worn out your DVD copies of The Osbournes, you don't think that the Samsung cellphone commercials with Ozzy run often enough, you believe Sharon has more to offer than those she judged on America's Got Talent, and Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie still gets you pumped, you'll soon see more of the first family of heavy metal (with all due respect to Gene Simmons' brood) on television.

Osbournes Reloaded is a new Fox show featuring Ozzy, his wife Sharon and their kids Jack and Kelly Osbourne that will premiere this spring. It will feature skits, Candid Camera-type moments and audience participation games. Ozzy will occasionally sing, and guests like Pamela Anderson will sometimes stop by. There will even be a pair of "mini-Osbournes" — two child actors who impersonate Ozzy and Sharon.

"I'm willing to try anything once," Ozzy said at a media conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday to preview the program, according to the U.K.'s Telegraph newspaper. "We are a very dysfunctional family, doing a very dysfunctional show."

That's an understatement, since Ozzy was willing to bite the head off a bat once.

If this sounds like a variety show, Kelly begged to differ at the preview.

"The word 'variety' frightens us. No disrespect to other variety shows of the past. It's just not what we do. We're not going to be Sonny and Cher-ing it."

"It is family viewing," Fox alternative entertainment president Mike Darnell told reporters at the preview. "We might have a few old age pensioners being kissed, and stripping grandmas, but it is all good clean fun. There is nothing mean-spirited about it.

"We are letting them go as far as they can. They are raunchy and funny and also a warm, real family."

Six episodes of the program have been shot, and producers and network executives will see how well they're received by viewers before ordering more.

Ozzy won't be the only singer coming to your television screen this year.

Meanwhile, Hilary Duff has apparently signed on to play an 18-year-old lawyer in a comedy called Barely Legal. This "legal version of Doogie Howser, M.D." is based on the story of Kathleen Holtz, who became California's youngest lawyer in 2007.

Just a thought: You might not want to call a show Barely Legal and recruit Duff as the star. It could, y'know, attract the wrong kind of viewers.

TV won't be the same across the pond, either, since BBC has scrapped Lily Allen's Lily Allen And Friends series.

The BBC's Danny Cohen told U.K. tabloid The Sun that it was originally picked up for a second season, but was axed.