Ted Lasso is set to return for a fourth season later this summer – despite past claims of the show coming to an end.
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News that the hit series will be returning later this year was confirmed by Apple TV, and the streamer also dropped four first-look images from the upcoming season.
The show, which follows an American coach taking over a British football team, made its debut back in 2020, and has since gone on to win two Golden Globes and 11 Primetime Emmy Awards.
Season three wrapped up in 2023, and while co-creators initially said it was going to end there, producer and star Jason Sudeikis confirmed last spring that he was in the process of writing another season.
Among the characters returning for the new season are Ted (Sudeikis), Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham), Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt), Keeley (Juno Temple), Roy (Brett Goldstein), and Leslie (Jeremy Swift).
As for the plot, the new season will carry on directly from where season three left off, with Ted moving on from his role managing AFC Richmond and relocating back to his Kansas hometown.
First look at ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4, which will see Ted coach a women’s team. pic.twitter.com/B0cFwf7flC
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Based on the new images shared from the upcoming season, it looks like Lasso eventually back to Richmond with his son, Henry (now recast as Grant Feely), and starts a new role coaching a second division women’s football team.
Among the new cast members are Tanya Reynolds – who seems to play a new assistant coach working with Lasso based on the new images – as well as Jude Mack, Faye Marsey, Rex Hayes, Aisling Sharkey, and Abbie Hern.
Other shots shared from Apple TV include Ted and Henry at their favourite Crown & Anchor pub in London, run by Mae Green (Annette Badland), and Ted and Rebecca in front of a jet – possibly indicating her flying out to recruit him for the new coaching role.
More details about season four, including the exact release date, are expected to be shared later this year.
Filming began in Kansas City last July, and has been taking place in London in more recent months.
Sudeikis is on board as executive producer alongside Hunt, Joe Kelly, Jane Becker, Jamie Lee, Jack Burditt and Bill Wrubel. Goldstein is also an executive producer, and works as one of the writers too, as well as playing Roy Kent.
Back in April 2023, cast member Nick Mohammed spoke to NME about hopes of a fourth season, and revealed he was uncertain whether the series would “end, [become] a film [or move onto] season four”.
He also dismissed any hopes of a spin-off series centring around his character, Nate Shelley, saying: “In general, I worry about spin-offs, especially for a really large show like Lasso. I mean, if you get it wrong, it’s just a shame, isn’t it?”
Brett Goldstein also previously cited uncertainty around a fourth season of Ted Lasso last year, and quipped that the show returning felt like bringing a dead cat back to life.
Season three was given a three-star review by NME, and the first few episodes were praised as providing “a promising start” to the season.
“True, the football sequences still don’t look that hot, but that’s not really why you watch Ted Lasso, is it? The writing is a sharp as ever, from Ted taking the team into the sewer for a motivational speech to describing himself as ‘like Ned Flanders is doing cosplay as Ned Flanders’,” it read.
“The addition of Zava brings real zing to the show, and the newly-formed rivalry with the Hammers, as Shelley and Mannion try and supplant Richmond, is Premier League funny. Welcome back Ted – we’ve missed you.”
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