Mammoth starring Mike Bubbins to return
- BBC Wales pilot Mammoth is to return for a three-part series
- The comedy stars Mike Bubbins as a 1970s PE teacher who is brought back to life in present times
- Bubbins says: "I'm very excited to watch Tony Mammoth come to life"
Mammoth, the sitcom in which Mike Bubbins plays a 1970s PE teacher brought back to life, is to return for three more episodes.
The comedy was piloted on BBC One Wales in November 2021, and the new episodes have also been commissioned for BBC Wales and BBC iPlayer. They've been written by Bubbins and Paul Doolan.
The plot is described as follows: "Mammoth is a comedy about man of his time Tony Mammoth (Mike Bubbins), a PE teacher who is presumed to have been killed in an avalanche on a school trip in 1979. When his body is discovered decades later in the present day, Mammoth is miraculously brought back from the dead and has to try and rebuild his life as a PE teacher in modern day Cardiff."
Mike Bubbins says: "I am delighted that Mammoth is about to become a BBC series. I was a comedy fan well before I became a comedy writer and performer, and I still am, so I'm very excited to watch Tony Mammoth come to life. And not just after being miraculously frozen in time, following a freak skiing accident, in 1979. I want Mammoth to be the sort of comedy that families can sit down to enjoy together. Big laughs, from a big character. With quite a big moustache."
Paul Forde, Commissioning Editor for Comedy at BBC Wales, comments: "We're thrilled that a brand-new series of Mammoth is coming to our screens, set to entertain audiences across the UK. It's a great premise for a show and we know that audiences will love watching Tony Mammoth struggling to come to terms with his predicament."
The commission was announced by BBC comedy commissioner Jon Petrie at the BBC Comedy Festival in Cardiff, where the BBC called comedy "a public service and needed now more than ever". A total of 10 commissions were announced. Full list of new shows