‘Ted Lasso’ Heads Toward Season 4 Greenlight With Options Pickup For 3 Core Cast Members

“Ted Lasso” is plotting an appearance for Season 4 because cast choices have been shopped to Brett Goldstein, Hannah Waddingham and Jeremy Swift.

By Nellie Andreeva, Peter White

Aug 25, 2024 06:56 AM

Exclusive : Ted Lasso fans This isn’t an exercise. A significant step towards the eagerly-awaited fourth season of Apple TV+’s wildly popular soccer comedy, the show’s is now a producer Warner Bros. Television has taken over the rights to the three cast members that were hired under the auspices of Equity, the UK actor union Equity sources confirm to Deadline. The three areHannah Waddingham , who is AFC Richmond owner Rebecca Walton andBrett Goldstein , who plays the hardman Roy Kent and Jeremy Swift who is the director of operations for football Leslie Higgins.

After securing the trio, the studio is expected to start reaching out to Ted Lasso cast members with SAG-AFTRA contracts whose options had expired, so they will need to make new deals, we hear. In addition to co-creators/executive producers Jason Sudeikis (Ted Lasso) and Brendan Hunt (Coach Beard), that is believed to include Juno Temple (Keeley Jones). We’ve heard that one of Ted Lasso OGs, Phil Dunster (Jamie Tart) hasn’t been taken on, possibly due to conflicts with another show; he is featured on both The Devil’s Hour on Prime Video and The Devil’s Hour and Apple’s Surface.

It’s not clear which other stars could be approached for Season 4 and the cast have stated repeatedly that they’d be delighted to reprise their roles should there is an opportunity. Many would likely make appearances as guests.

Regaining the cast will open the way to getting a Season 4 greenlight, contingent on the approval of budgets and schedules as actors with options that have expired might have joined other shows that put them in the top place, sources told.

While contact with cast members is taking place and preparations are already being done to open the writers’ area. If all elements meet, it is believed that the fourth season of production is expected to begin in 2025. begin. Reps from WBTV along with Apple TV+ declined comment.

Beginning the process to get the Season 4 greenlight indicates that the principal Ted Lasso driving power on screen and off, Sudeikis, is on board for the next season because the studio couldn’t have been able to proceed without his permission.

What happens to Ted Lasso has always been dependent on Sudeikis character, who was the original persona for NBC Sports films. While being open about their desire to continue Ted Lasso, one of the most popular and most critically acclaimed comedy shows of the last 10 years, Apple and Warner Bros. executives have stated that it will be the decision of Sudeikis whether the show will continue.

HTML0 is the Saturday Night Live actor created Ted Lasso with Hunt, Joe Kelly and Bill Lawrence, had originally thought of the show as an ongoing storyline for three seasons, and he stayed with the concept despite the series huge growth. But he had not closed the door to another Ted Lasso-and that’s why season 3 was not deemed to be final until coming up with the perfect concept. To Ted Lasso fans their delight, over one year following the Season three finale seems like it’s occurred.

With its positive tone and an amiable ever-optimist and eternally optimistic lead role, Ted Lasso was the perfect series to debut at the peak of the pandemic in August of 2020. The comedy became an instant worldwide success and was Apple’s most recognizable and most watched original series to date.

Alongside its huge popularity, which pushed it into the mainstream zeitgeist, Ted Lasso has won thirteen Emmy Awards during its original three-season run. This included two consecutive Outstanding Comedy Series trophies and performances awards from Sudeikis (2), Goldstein (2) and Goldstein (2), who also serves as a writer and producer for the series, as well as Waddingham.

In May of 2023, the Season 3 finale saw Keeley and Rebecca possible partners in a new venture called AFC Richmond Women’s Team, and all the main characters having a happy ending including Ted who last saw coaching his son on an soccer field at the state of Kansas.