The mania round a rumored fourth season of Ted Lasso on Apple TV+ feels to me a bit like what The Beatles will need to have skilled again within the ’70s after their breakup (sure, I’m a hardcore fan of the Fab 4, however stick with me right here). The person Beatles’ each utterance, each press look, each solo album launch and live performance was at all times parsed for clues about the one query everybody wished to know: When are you guys getting again collectively? And something lower than a full, full, Sherman-esque denial was considered a “So that you’re saying there’s nonetheless an opportunity?” form of factor.
Likewise, each main Ted Lasso forged member together with star and co-creator Jason Sudeikis has been bombarded with a equally insistent question ever because the hit present ended again in Could 2023: Will there be one other season?
Co-creator Invoice Lawrence, aka the MVP of Apple TV+ showrunners, is the newest to weigh in on all of the rumors — and subsequently provided new hope to AFC Richmond nation. In an interview with Collider about his Apple present Shrinking, Lawrence was requested about the way forward for Ted Lasso — significantly, how severe is all of the chatter concerning the present probably coming again in some type or vogue (akin to by way of a spin-off). Pay shut consideration to his response under, significantly the half that I highlighted:
“With Ted Lasso, I at all times have to verify I spotlight Jason Sudeikis as a result of he had a imaginative and prescient for the present and it’s such an enormous place of delight for me now, trying again, to have been concerned with the crafting and determining what that present was. Him and I ran it the primary yr, we ran it collectively the second yr, and the third yr, he was doing it. You may at all times inform a brand new story with new characters on this streaming world. He’s driving it creatively. However man, I’m excited to even nonetheless peripherally be part of it.”
Sudeikis is “driving it creatively,” a phrasing that denotes the current tense. It’s taking place now, at the moment, in different phrases. That actually sounds to me like yet one more clue we’ll be getting extra of the Apple TV+ present that took dwelling 13 Emmys over the course of its three-season run, following such further tidbits because the Movie & Tv Business Alliance by accident confirming that the still-unannounced new season of Ted Lasso has been added to the checklist of reveals in manufacturing or growth.
That nugget additionally adopted one other report noting that pre-production on the brand new season is anticipated in January, with London shoots starting in early 2025.
It’s all nonetheless in rumor territory till Apple makes it official. However right here’s hoping that the present that taught us all the advantages of getting the 10-second reminiscence of a goldfish, and the significance of being curious relatively than judgmental, returns to Apple’s streaming service sooner relatively than later.
