{"id":451095,"date":"2026-02-28T23:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451095\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:53:10","slug":"mike-bubbins-wants-jason-bateman-to-star-in-us-remake-of-mammoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451095\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Bubbins wants Jason Bateman to star in US remake of Mammoth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However Bubbins has a clear favourite in mind, saying he would like to get Bateman onboard as Tony Mammoth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s really funny and he just makes me laugh,&#8221; Bubbins said of Bateman, who played Michael Bluth in the comedy series Arrested Development, and also starred in Ozark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As long as they&#8217;re funny then that&#8217;s great,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Even though he will not reprise his role, Bubbins hopes to make a cameo appearance in the US version, a nod to the show&#8217;s British roots in a similar way to Ricky Gervais&#8217; brief appearance in the US version of The Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mammoth will be joined by comedy series Here We Go in being adapted by BBC Studios for the US market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Josh Cole, chief creative officer of fiction and comedy at BBC Studios, said Mammoth has a &#8220;brilliantly unique premise&#8221; and &#8220;huge global potential&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However Bubbins has a clear favourite in mind, saying he would like to get Bateman onboard as Tony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-451095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}