FOX Greenlights Mammoth, New Comedy from Modern Family's Christopher Lloyd and Danny Zuker
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FOX has greenlit Mammoth, a new comedy series from Modern Family co-creator and twelve-time Emmy Award-winning executive producer Christopher Lloyd and five-time Emmy-winning executive producer/writer Danny Zuker. Produced by FOX Entertainment Studios with BBC Studios Los Angeles executive producing, the series will be distributed worldwide by FOX Entertainment Global and is slated to debut during the 2027–28 season.
Mammoth follows Coach Tony Mammoth, a larger-than-life high school gym teacher whose life is put on ice in 1983 when he’s buried in a freak ski avalanche. Forty years later, he thaws out to a world that has completely changed — but he’s convinced it really didn’t need to. Still clinging to life in the ’80s — complete with his Burt Reynolds moustache and treasured Trans-AM — Mammoth returns to the job he loves, only to discover that today’s rules, relationships, and realities bear little resemblance to the world he once knew.
“Tony Mammoth genuinely believes he mastered manhood the first time around, making his new reality the ultimate wakeup call and greatest challenge in an otherwise flawless life. He’s charming, wildly self-assured, hopelessly out of step and, despite his many blind spots, impossible not to root for.”
“Tony gets the second chance so many people wish for, only to find that his bravado doesn’t quite match his new reality. We love his shameless confidence, his fascination with a world he barely recognizes, and the big heart underneath it all. He’s a lot. We can’t wait to bring him to FOX.”
The series is based on the original BBC Studios U.K. production created by Welsh comedian and writer Mike Bubbins. Lloyd and Zuker serve as writers, showrunners, and executive producers, alongside executive producers Mark Linsey and Angie Stephenson of BBC Studios Los Angeles, and Bubbins. The two reunite following their celebrated collaboration across the entire run of Modern Family; Lloyd also previously served as executive producer and showrunner of the acclaimed comedy Frasier.