Los Angeles, Sept. 4 -- Fox is bringing a new live-action comedy series to its lineup with 'Mammoth', which comes from Modern Family co-creator Christopher Lloyd. Danny Zuker will serve as an executive producer and writer.

The project is based on Mike Bubbins' British sitcom of the same name, as per Variety.

According to the description, "'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 j...