{"id":210252,"date":"2025-12-01T21:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/210252\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:06:12","slug":"mammoth-review-thawed-out-70s-pe-teacher-returns-with-a-hilarious-season-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/210252\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mammoth\u2019 review: Thawed-out 70s PE teacher returns with a hilarious season two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018Mammoth\u2019 (BBC Two) 4\/5\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tony Mammoth (Mike Bubbins, left) faces his supposed old nemesis Terry (Kim Durham) in \u2018Mammoth\u2019. Photo: BBC Studios Comedy\/Tom Jackson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mammoth.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Tony Mammoth (Mike Bubbins, left) faces his supposed old nemesis Terry (Kim Durham) in \u2018Mammoth\u2019. Photo: BBC Studios Comedy\/Tom Jackson<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">If you somehow let the first, short season of Mammoth (BBC Two, Monday, December 1) fly under your radar in 2024 \u2013 and I admit it took me a while to catch up with it \u2013 then you missed out on an absolute gem of a comedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Welsh comedian, actor, radio presenter and podcaster Mike Bubbins\u2019s marvellous creation, an unreconstructed 1970s PE teacher called Tony Mammoth who\u2019s transplanted to the present day, didn\u2019t stick around long in 2024, just three episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Mammoth\u2019 (BBC Two) 4\/5 Tony Mammoth (Mike Bubbins, left) faces his supposed old nemesis Terry (Kim Durham) in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[3412,18,117,19,17,9162,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-210252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-pat-stacey","14":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115646352227822389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}