Ted Lasso aired its season 3 finale last year, but there is still hope for season 4 and it’s all down to Jason Sudeikis, according to co-creator Bill Lawrence.
Ted Lasso was, without a doubt, one of AppleTV+’s most successful TV shows and a rare example of a creative team knowing how to finish on a high. The multiple Emmy-winning series seemingly came to a conclusion in May 2023 as we bade farewell to Jason Sudeikis’ titular football coach in the season 3 finale.
Co-creator Bill Lawrence has now suggested that there might be more Ted Lasso still to come. Lawrence told Collider (via The Hollywood Reporter) that it’s all down to Sudeikis.
“Groupthink sometimes happens, even without talking to each other, and every actor, actress, writer, producer on that show — and [we didn’t get] together and decide this was the message — we all loved the experience,” Lawrence said. “As fans, we’d all kill if it was going again, but everybody would say the same thing, which is: whatever Jason feels like doing and whatever his decision is, we’re all down with it.”
Lawrence elaborated that making another season of Ted Lasso would be a huge undertaking for Sudeikis, who has two kids with ex-wife Olivia Wilde.
“Not only is he the star, he’s the head writer, and he’s also the dude whose life just has to be completely overhauled and moved to a foreign country with young children,” the co-creator said.
The season 3 finale left things open enough for Ted Lasso to return to our screens, with or without Sudeikis’ character.
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The series was always imagined for a three season run, but never say never. Declan Lowney, who directed the season three finale, told The Hollywood Reporter in 2023 that there was interest in continuing the series if “the human cost wasn’t so great.”
“Because every time we do a season, it’s a year in England, away from their families,” Lowney continued. “That’s a tough old slog [over the past] three and a half years, four years. You know, I think that it [could have] kept going, but it had done its thing — the three-season arc, that was the deal, that was what [Sudeikis] wanted. But I feel there’s something else. … There will be other things.”
If Ted Lasso does somehow return, we’ll be sure to let you know.
