The Osbournes are once again inviting the cameras into their tumultuous lives. This time, they'll appear on Fox, and they've got a new schtick.Ozzy, Sharon, Jack and Kelly will headline a variety show — produced by FremantleMedia North America (the folks who bring you American Idol) — that will include a mix of performances, stunts and competitions.Fox alternative programming chief Mike Darnell told Variety the Osbournes' show — currently with the working title The Osbournes: Loud and Dangerous — is likely to launch as a Christmas special, and that he sees the show as a potential throwback to Donny and Marie's variety show from the 1970s (Osbournes? Osmonds? That's a stretch, dude, but we'll go with it).Sharon, by the way, is still under contract as a judge on NBC's America's Got Talent. Fox will tape episodes of the new show around her AGT schedule. — J.R. Whalen
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HBO is adapting Preacher for TV, a popular Vertigo comic series about a Texas holy man, possessed by the supernatural coupling of an angel and a demon, who journeys across America with an old girlfriend and an Irish vampire, to find God.... Ponch himself, Erik Estrada, Jack Osbourne and La Toya Jackson are among those on board for Armed and Famous, a CBS reality series that puts C-listers through reserve-police-officer training, then send them on patrol, with loaded guns and all. Recipe. For. Disaster.... E! is developing Paradise City, a weekly series to be produced by Ryan Seacrest and that offers a look at the young adults who live and work in Las Vegas. I can offer no better public service announcement than to assure you this is not a sequel to E's Taradise.
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