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‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4 Officially A Go With Jason Sudeikis; Juno Temple In Negotiations To Join Returning Cast As Apple Series Heads To Kansas
Apple TV+ has greenlighted a fourth season of Ted Lasso, with Jason Sudeikis set to return as star & executive producer. It will film in Kansas & UK.
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You better believe it: Ted Lasso is officially back as Apple TV+ has greenlighted a fourth season of its flagship comedy series, with Jason Sudeikis set to return as star and executive producer.
According to sources, Juno Temple, who played Keeley in the first three seasons, is in negotiations to rejoin fellow original cast members Sudeikis (Coach Lasso) as well as Hannah Waddingham (Rebecca), Brett Goldstein (Roy) and Jeremy Swift (Leslie) who were locked in for the new installment back in August.
Related Stories NewsWBTV’s Channing Dungey On ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4 Progress, ‘Bad Monkey’ & J.J. Abrams Deal Renewals, More ‘Big Bang’ Spinoff Cast ReturnsAnd, picking up where Season 3 left off, I hear the Season 4 premiere episode will film in Kansas (likely Kansas City) before Ted Lasso heads back to the UK. Casting of new roles is expected to begin shortly, with production eying a July start, sources said.
Watch on DeadlineThe official renewal announcement for the Warner Bros TV-produced series comes as its Season 4 writing team, featuring mostly Ted Lasso alums, has already been working on scripts for a couple of months. If hear the writers room is led by co-showrunners Sudeikis and new series addition Jack Burditt (Modern Family, 30 Rock), a comedy veteran who recently played a key role on the first season of Netflix’s Nobody Wants This.
In his first public comments about Season 4 of Ted Lasso, the usually tightlipped Sudeikis remained cryptic while providing some clues about the direction the show may be taking.
“As we all continue to live in a world where so many factors have conditioned us to ‘look before we leap, in season four, the folks at AFC Richmond learn to LEAP BEFORE THEY LOOK, discovering that wherever they land, it’s exactly where they’re meant to be,” he said in a statement.
‘Ted Lasso’ Apple TV+Not surprisingly, AFC Richmond, the fictional English football club where Ted was a coach for three seasons, will again be the setting for the show despite his departure at the end of Season 3 to return to his native Kansas. However, Sudeikis spoke of the “folks” at the club, not necessarily the players.
That jibes with the fact that all original cast members secured to return full time so far play characters on Richmond’s management/coaching side, not the players, whose trials and tribulations were chronicled over the first three seasons.
The “leap before they look” reference would fit one popular fan theory. In the Season 3 finale, Keeley and Rebecca, somewhat impulsively, partnered on a potential new venture, AFC Richmond women’s team. That was seen as possibly kicking off the next chapter in the Ted Lasso franchise, and it would qualify as a leap of faith.
The last time we saw Ted at the end of the Season 3 finale, he was coaching his son on a soccer field in Kansas. The handful of Kansas-set scenes in the first three seasons were actually filmed in California, so this would be the first time Kansas native Sudeikis & Co. would be heading to the Sunflower State for the show.
The march toward the long-awaited fourth season of Ted Lasso started in August when the hit comedy’s studio Warner Bros Television picked up the options on three original cast members who had been contracted under the aegis of the UK acting union Equity: Waddingham, Goldstein and Swift.
Not picked up at the time was Phil Dunster (Jamie), presumably due to a conflict with another series. He has since signed on for a series regular role on a new HBO comedy from Ted Lasso executive producer Bill Lawrence and Warner Bros TV but could potentially reprise his role in some limited capacity, with fellow Brit Nick Mohammed (Nate) teasing a possible Ted Lasso return in January.
As Deadline reported in August, the next step for the studio was to make deals with cast members under SAG-AFTRA contracts whose options had expired. That included Sudeikis, Temple and Brendan Hunt (Coach Beard).
Sudeikis has still closed a big new deal that includes his acting services in addition to writing-producing. Temple has been in negotiations for a couple of months, with a scheduling conflict believed to be the sticking point though sources are optimistic that an agreement can be reached. I hear that currently, there is no acting deal in place for Hunt but that should not be a reason for concern. Alongside Sudeikis and fellow OG cast member Goldstein, he already has been working in the writers room.
(L-R) Brett Goldstein, Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt in Ted Lasso’ Apple TV+Sudeikis, Hunt and Goldstein are executive producers alongside fellow returning Ted Lasso writers-producers Joe Kelly, Jane Becker, Jamie Lee, Bill Wrubel and Leann Bowen. Also back in the Ted Lasso writers room are Phoebe Walsh and Sarah Walker as producers, Sasha Garron as co-producer, and Dylan Marron as story editor. In addition to executive producer/co-showrunner Burditt, who has signed an overall deal with Apple TV+ upon joining the show, new to the team is staff writer Julia Lindon.
Lawrence, who developed the series with Sudeikis, Kelly and Hunt, is a non-writing executive producer via his Doozer Productions alongside the company’s Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer.
With its uplifting tone, aspirational storytelling and a good-natured, mild-mannered and optimistic lead character, Ted Lasso was the perfect show to launch at the height of the pandemic in August 2020. The comedy became an instant global hit and Apple’s signature and — until recently — most-watched original series ever.
In addition to its immense popularity and marquee pop culture status, Ted Lasso earned 13 Emmy Awards during its original three-season run, including two back-to-back Outstanding Comedy Series trophies and acting wins for Sudeikis (2), Goldstein (2) and Waddingham.
“Ted Lasso has been nothing short of a juggernaut, inspiring a passionate fanbase all over the world, and delivering endless joy and laughter, all while spreading kindness, compassion and unwavering belief,” said Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+. “Everyone at Apple is thrilled to be continuing our collaboration with Jason and the brilliant creative minds behind this show.”
Sudeikis had originally conceived the comedy as a three-season story arc and he stuck with the plan despite the series’ enormous success. But he didn’t shut the door to more Ted Lasso completely — which is why Season 3 was not labeled as final despite its last episode’s “So Long, Farewell” title.
Since the Season 3 finale aired in May 2023, Apple TV+ as well as Warner Bros TV had been looking to bring the show back, with hopes always hinging on Sudeikis’ participation. Once he was on board (unofficially at first), the two companies moved in to figure out the budget and make deals with actors and writers for a fourth season.
“If ever there was a show the world needed more of right now, it would be Ted Lasso,” Channing Dungey, Chairman and CEO, Warner Bros. Television Group and WBD US Networks, said. “We — along with countless fans around the globe — have been rooting for another season, and it is an incredible feeling to be able to say, ‘Yes, it’s happening!’ We thank our partners at Apple and can’t wait for Jason and the entire Ted Lasso dream team to step back onto the pitch and deliver another season of this phenomenal series.”
Ted Lasso is produced by Doozer Productions in association with Warner Bros Television and Universal Television, a division of NBCUniversal Content. The series is based on the preexisting format and characters from NBC Sports.
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