MTV announcing that The Osbournes will be back for a third season with 20 new episodes that will begin airing early next year.

Originally posted by Wooderson
I thought this was the 3rd season.

Originally posted by hgar78
i think what's on right now is the second half of the 2nd season (a la sex in the city)???? i could be wrong but i think that's what they did.

Apparently, Ozzy Osbourne remains curious about what it would be like to star on a reality show without boozing. That’s according to wife Sharon, who is announcing a limited return of their long-dormant series ‘The Osbournes.’

“Ozzy’s decided he wants to do another few episodes — about eight — of ‘The Osbournes’,” she said, as part of an appearance on ‘Loose Women.’ “It’s been 13 years since we first did it. He said for the three years we did it, he was drunk the whole time — and he’d like to be sober.”

‘The Osbournes’ aired on MTV from 2002-05; Osbourne has since gotten sober, though not without occasional lapses. This limited run hopefully won’t interfere with Ozzy’s tandem work a new album with Black Sabbath, the follow up to the No. 1 reunion project ’13.’

It would seem Ozzy’s had a change of heart about the show in the past year. Last summer he declared he reunited with Black Sabbath partly to cleanse himself of the experience of being on the program. “Of course I regret doing the f—ing show… I didn’t want to be on f—ing television. I didn’t become a f—ing rock ‘n’ roll singer to read the f—ing weather forecast, know what I mean? it’s part of the reason I wanted to come back. This album (’13′) pisses on all that.”

It would seem a compromise has been reached. “It’s not forever — no more than eight episodes,” Sharon adds. “It’s a kind of catch-up, ‘what they’re doing now.’” The Osbourne’s children Kelly and Jack, both of whom also starred in the original series, are expected to return, as well. “They’ll come in and out,” Sharon said.

VH1 has revived the reality series starring Ozzy, Sharon, Jack and Kelly Osbourne, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The Viacom-owned cable network is near a deal for a new batch of episodes of the former MTV reality series.

The news comes after Sharon Osbourne has been public about the show's revival, noting that it will likely come back for six or eight episodes.

The news comes nearly 10 years after the Osbournes signed off at VH1 corporate sibling MTV following a four-season run. The show, which earned a 2002 Emmy for outstanding reality program, launched in March 2002, and its freshman run became the most viewed series ever on MTV up until that point.