Earlier this yr, we lastly bought official affirmation that Ted Lasso is returning for a fourth season. Now it seems like Apple’s Emmy award-winning sequence is about to begin filming within the subsequent few weeks, in response to a brand new report from Deadline.
Very refined hints of a fourth season of Ted Lasso started circulating in early 2024 and had been later backed up by trade experiences that Warner Bros., the manufacturing firm behind the sequence, was working to get the band again collectively. By January, it appeared obvious issues had been on observe to start filming, nevertheless it wasn’t till March that the person behind the eponymous soccer coach, Jason Sudeikis, gave us the official phrase.
Sudeikis not solely stars as Ted but additionally serves as co-creator, government producer, and head author. There was no approach that Ted Lasso would have returned with out his say-so. Final summer time, co-creator Invoice Lawrence confirmed that and hedged a bit by hinting that Sudeikis might not have but been fully on board. “He’s additionally the dude whose life simply must be utterly overhauled and moved to a international nation with younger youngsters,” Lawrence advised Collider.
Nevertheless, as one of many largest hits on Apple TV+, it’s comprehensible how Apple and Warner Bros. wished to determine a solution to convey it again. The present garnered document viewers and have become the most-nominated freshman comedy sequence in Emmy Awards historical past, surpassing 2010’s Glee, incomes it an Emmy for Excellent Comedy Sequence, together with three extra awards for excellent lead and supporting actors and three extra for modifying, sound mixing, and casting.
Ted Lasso was initially written as a three-season arc, however whereas it wrapped issues up properly in Could 2023, stars and producers had been reluctant to see that as a ultimate finish. Jason Sudeikis known as it “the tip of this story that we wished to inform” however left the door open to the potential of a brand new chapter within the Lasso-verse.
A report in February gave us a touch of what that chapter could be about, with the suggestion that Season 4 would possibly deal with the formation of a girls’s soccer crew at AFC Richmond. Sudeikis confirmed that in March, though he didn’t provide a lot element. “Ted’s teaching a girls’s crew, so there, that’s it,” he stated.
There additionally hadn’t beforehand been a lot official phrase on who would return to the forged apart from Sudeikis. An Apple press launch confirmed that Brendan Hunt (Coach Beard) and Brett Goldstein (Roy Kent) are returning to the writing crew, suggesting we should always see them reprise their on-screen roles. The report from final August additionally stated that contract choices had been picked up on Hannah Waddingham (Rebecca Welton), Jeremy Swift (Leslie Higgins), and Juno Temple (Keeley Jones).
At present’s Deadline report confirms that crew proprietor Rebecca Welton will certainly be returning in season 4, which all the time appeared to be a given if the main focus goes to be on forming a girls’s crew.
Our writers are actually Jedi Knights. They’re simply unimaginable. And we’ve bought like a full room of actual feminist males. So we’ve bought all of the fabulous girls there, and the boys which can be in there, and I believe you actually see it within the scripts … it’s simply so fantastically drawn.
Hannah Waddingham, talking with Deadline
Sadly, we doubtless received’t see a lot of Jamie Tart within the new season. Phil Dunster has moved on to different tasks, and whereas we’re hoping for a visitor look or two, there’s been no phrase on whether or not that can occur.
Filming is about to start in July, so we’re nonetheless months away from a launch date, and nothing has been formally introduced. Season 4 would possibly sneak in earlier than the tip of the yr, nevertheless it’s extra doubtless that we’re taking a look at an early 2026 season premiere.