Imagine.
Jason Sudeikis has formally confirmed that “Ted Lasso” is getting a Season 4.
“We’re writing Season 4 now. That’s the official word,” the previous “Saturday Night Live” star, 49, introduced throughout Travis and Jason Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast on Friday.
Sudeikis clarified that Season 4 may have a unique premise, along with his character, Ted Lasso, teaching a unique staff.
“Ted’s coaching, yeah, a women’s team. So there, that’s…”
When Travis Kelce pressed Sudeikis concerning the plot and placement, asking, “Is he coming back to the States or…?”
Sudeikis replied, “Yeah, that’s too many questions.”
The NFL participant’s brother, retired Philadelphia Eagles participant Jason, chimed in: “We’ll leave it at that. We’ll leave it at that.”
“And it’s only because I don’t have, I don’t have… I don’t know,” stated Sudeikis.
The Put up reached out to Apple TV+ for remark.
For the primary time since Oct. 2023, the Ted Lasso account posted on X, previously Twitter, on Friday.
Talking in character because the folksy coach Ted Lasso, the tweet learn, “Finally found the dang password to this thing. Sorry y’all. What’d I miss?”
The Emmy-winning Apple TV+ comedy ran for 3 seasons between 2020 and 2023 earlier than supposedly ending in 2023.
The present was a “fish out of water” premise following American soccer coach Ted Lasso, who discovered himself teaching AFC Richmond, a down on their luck English soccer (soccer) staff, together with gamers just like the surly Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein, additionally a author/ producer) and the egotistical Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster), and the sunny Danny Rojas (Cristo Fernández), all whereas bonding with staff proprietor Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) and PR guide Keely (Juno Temple).
If Ted is teaching a ladies’s staff in Season 4, it’s unclear if forged members equivalent to Dunster, Goldstein, Fernández, Temple, or Waddingham will return. Sudeikis didn’t elaborate on casting.
Though the present resulted in 2023, the creatives equivalent to Sudeikis and co-creator Invoice Lawrence have been cagey about whether or not that was the true finish.
“You can ask anybody that wrote on the show, or acted on the show, or produced the show, and we will all say the same thing, which is, that’s up to Jason Sudeikis,” Lawrence advised The Put up in Aug. 2024.
Season 1 earned 20 Emmy nominations, changing into essentially the most nominated freshman comedy in historical past. Seasons 2 and three additionally scored over 20 Emmy nominations, and several other wins.
Season 3 had some free ends, nonetheless — at numerous occasions, the present hinted at a romance between Ted and Rebecca, which by no means took off. There was additionally a love triangle between Jamie, Roy, and Keely that felt unresolved. The present ended with Ted returning to Kansas.
In March 2023, Sudeikis advised Deadline, “This is the end of this story that we wanted to tell, that we were hoping to tell, that we loved to tell. The fact that folks will want more and are curious beyond more than what they don’t even know yet—that being Season 3—it’s flattering.”
“As a fan, of course, I’d love to see it again,” Lawrence advised The Put up.
“But whatever [Sudeikis] ends up doing, I’m totally down with. And I get it.”
In Dec. 2024, Lawrence added to The Put up, “Why you know something? Because if someone wants to do a Season 4, tell them I said yes. Just say it. Just put it out there.”
