Overview
- Fox placed a series order Thursday for Mammoth to debut in the 2027–28 season, making it the network’s first live-action half-hour comedy pick-up in more than two years.
- Christopher Lloyd and Danny Zuker will write, serve as co-showrunners, and executive produce the U.S. adaptation.
- Fox Entertainment Studios will fully produce and own the series while Fox Entertainment Global will handle worldwide distribution and BBC Studios Los Angeles will executive produce alongside original creator Mike Bubbins.
- The show follows Coach Tony Mammoth, a larger-than-life 1980s high school coach who is frozen in an avalanche and reappears four decades later, creating culture-clash comedy without changing the original series’ central premise.
- Industry coverage says the U.S. Mammoth was a pre-existing package rather than a low-cost pilot and the order highlights Fox’s shift toward ownership and rebuilding its comedy lineup, with Lloyd and Zuker’s Modern Family track record likely to raise expectations; casting and a firm release date have not been announced.