AFC Richmond might not have performed its remaining match simply but.
A fourth season of “Ted Lasso” may very well be occurring at Apple TV+, in accordance with a number of reviews. Warner Bros. Tv has picked up the choices on stars HannahWaddingham, Brett Goldstein and Jeremy Swift, signaling the studio’s intention to carry the actors again for one more season, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Selection and The Wrap reported. The trio starred as Rebecca Welton, Roy Kent and Leslie Higgins, respectively, within the acclaimed comedy about an American coach (Jason Sudeikis) employed to steer an English soccer workforce.
Deadline was the primary to report the information.
Whereas Season 4 of “Ted Lasso” has not formally been introduced, the reviews mentioned Warner Bros. Tv will attain out to the present’s different stars subsequent to make new offers. Sudeikis is believed to already be concerned as an govt producer, Selection mentioned. Manufacturing on Season 4 may start in early 2025, Deadline and The Wrap reported.
USA TODAY has reached out to representatives for Apple TV+, Warner Bros. Tv and Sudeikis for remark.
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The information got here as a shock, on condition that the ultimate episode of “Ted Lasso” Season 3 was believed to be the present’s final. In Might 2023, the finale noticed Jason Sudeikis’ title character go away AFC Richmond and go residence to the US, seemingly concluding his story.
Members of the “Ted Lasso” artistic workforce had additionally mentioned they envisioned the present as having a three-season arc.
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“We have all the time meant it to be three seasons,” producer and star Brendan Hunt beforehand advised Leisure Weekly. “I feel it might be fairly cool if, within the face of how a lot everybody likes this present, that we stick with our weapons and actually simply do three seasons. However whilst dedicated to that concept as Jason might have been, none of us have been ready to the diploma to which individuals love this present.”
However Apple TV+ notably didn’t promote Season 3 because the present’s final, and Sudeikis and his fellow producers have been cagey about whether or not “Ted Lasso” was ending all the way in which as much as the finale. When requested on the Emmys in 2022 whether or not Season 3 was the tip, Sudeikis was evasive. “It is as much as extra components than myself,” he mentioned.
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Earlier this month, co-creator Invoice Lawrence advised Collider that the way forward for the present was nonetheless as much as Sudeikis.
“As followers, we might all kill if it was going once more, however all people would say the identical factor, which is: no matter Jason looks like doing and no matter his resolution is, we’re all down with it,” he advised the leisure information website.
“Ted Lasso” premiered in 2020, the yr after the launch of Apple TV+, and shortly grew to become one of many streaming service’s most acclaimed reveals. It received two consecutive Emmys for finest comedy sequence for its first and second seasons, with Sudeikis, Goldstein and Waddingham additionally receiving Emmys for his or her performances.
However important response to the third season was extra muted than the primary two, with USA TODAY TV critic Kelly Lawler writing that the season suffered from “lengthy, tedious episodes, poor characterization, unhealthy plotting and a normal lack of focus.” Season 3 misplaced the perfect comedy sequence Emmy to the primary season of “The Bear.”