{"id":835495,"date":"2026-09-03T22:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/835495\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T22:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:12:10","slug":"fox-orders-mammoth-comedy-series-from-modern-family-duo-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/835495\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Orders ‘Mammoth’ Comedy Series From ‘Modern Family’ Duo -Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Fox<\/a> has greenlighted its first live-action comedy series in more than two years. The network has handed a series order to Mammoth<\/a>, from the Emmy-winning Modern Family creator\/executive producer Christopher Lloyd<\/a> and writer\/executive producer\/writer Danny Zuker<\/a>, for the 2027-28 season. The show, based on the BBC Two comedy of the same name, is produced by Fox Entertainment Studios, with BBC Studios Los Angeles executive producing.<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten by Lloyd and Zuker, Mammoth follows Coach Tony Mammoth, a larger-than-life high school gym teacher whose life is put on ice in 1983 when he\u2019s buried in a freak ski avalanche. Forty years later, he thaws out to a world that has completely changed\u2026 but he\u2019s convinced it really didn\u2019t need to. Still clinging to life in the \u201880s \u2013 complete with his Burt Reynolds moustache and treasured Trans-AM \u2013- Mammoth returns to the job he loves, only to discover that today\u2019s rules, relationships, and realities bear little resemblance to the world he once knew.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTony 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\u2019s charming, wildly self-assured, hopelessly out of step and, despite his many blind spots, impossible not to root for,\u201d Lloyd said.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdded Zuker, \u201cTony gets the second chance so many people wish for, only to find that his bravado doesn\u2019t 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\u2019s a lot. We can\u2019t wait to bring him to Fox.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLloyd and Zuker, who serve as showrunners, executive produce alongside Mark Linsey and Angie Stephenson of BBC Studios Los Angeles, and Welsh comedian Mike Bubbins, creator and star of the original Mammoth series, which is headed to a third season on BBC Two. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe world moved on. Tony Mammoth didn\u2019t,\u201d said Michael Thorn, President of Fox Television Network. \u201cThat\u2019s an incredibly funny premise, but what Chris and Danny have developed is so much richer: a wildly original comedy with huge laughs, deep heart, and characters everyone will relate to, whether they like it or not. I look forward to apologizing on Tony\u2019s behalf for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe U.S. adaptation was put together by BBC Studios Los Angeles, which got Lloyd on board before the project was taken out and set up at Fox last year. In line with the network\u2019s emphasis on content ownership, Mammoth \u2014 just like Fox\u2019s other live-action comedy series Animal Control \u2014 is fully owned, produced by Fox Entertainment Studios and distributed worldwide by Fox Entertainment Global.<\/p>\n

\n\tMammoth was among several half-hour projects, along with Thunderjacks, King Gary and an Andrea Savage show, that were heating up leading up to the May upfront.<\/a> At the time, the Fox leadership opted to not pick up a new live-action comedy while cancelling sophomore Going Dutch, <\/a>leaving Animal Control, starring Joel McHale, as the network\u2019s only live-action comedy series on the 2026-27 schedule.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the Fox upfront call, Thorn and Fox Entertainment CEO Rob Wade spoke about \u201ctaking a step back\u201d <\/a>to evolve the production model for live-action comedies \u201cbuilt for linear today\u201d the way they have with drama and unscripted.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere has been chatter over the past several months about Fox looking for comedies that can be made at a modest cost, with per-episode price tags rumored to be anywhere between $1.1 million and $1.6 million. <\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to sources, Mammoth was a pre-existing project and does not fall into the framework of the financially efficient model Fox has been contemplating; it is likely to be applied to a new series greenlight in the coming months. <\/p>\n

\n\tThorn and his team have leaned on British formats for the network\u2019s comedy slate. Mammoth follows the 2021 series Call Me Kat, based on UK\u2019s Miranda, and the 2022 Welcome To Flatch, based on This Country. Fox also piloted a U.S. version of The Kumars At No. 42 in 2024. <\/p>\n

\n\tThis marks a reunion for Lloyd and Zuker who worked together for the entire 11-season run of ABC\u2019s Modern Family, sharing in the show\u2019s five consecutive Emmy wins for Outstanding Comedy Series. Lloyd was executive producer and co-showrunner alongside series co-creator Steven Levitan; Zuker started as a co-executive producer and was promoted to executive producer in Season 3. Lloyd previously served as executive producer and showrunner of NBC\u2019s Frasier. Across Modern Family and Frasier, he has won a total of 12 Emmys. <\/p>\n

\n\tMammoth also marks Lloyd\u2019s return to Fox almost two decades after he and Levitan created and executive produced the network\u2019s 2007 sitcom Back To You starring Patricia Heaton and Kelsey Grammer. Upset by the decision of the Fox regime at the time to cancel that show after one season, the duo opted not to pitch their followup project, Modern Family, there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Fox has greenlighted its first live-action comedy series in more than two years. The network has handed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[85738,353723,88,6265,145364,92],"class_list":["post-835495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-christopher-lloyd","tag-danny-zuker","tag-entertainment","tag-fox","tag-mammoth","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}