Sure, we hear you ask: Didn’t Ted Lasso kind of end already? Protagonist’s journey brought to a close, big finale wedding, dream sequence showing all its character living happy lives? To which the answer is, apparently, no, because if there’s one lesson to be extracted from Ted Lasso, it’s that you should just keep doing the thing that gets you victories/Emmys, because winning is what matters, right? Apple TV+’s press release for the announcement confirms that Sudeikis, who co-created the show, served as one of its major creative architects, and who very publicly said the third season was “the end of this story we wanted to tell,” will be back to star in another season, after spending the two years since the third season being decidedly coy on the topic.
The notice is otherwise mum on the question of casting, although it does note that series stars Brett Goldstein and Brendan Hunt will maintain their roles behind the scenes. (Only Goldstein is explicitly named as a writer, though.) Oh, and TV comedy mainstay Jack Burditt has apparently come on as an executive producer, as part of an overall deal with Apple; with credits like 30 Rock, Nobody Wants This, and recent Disney+ show The Santa Clauses on his C.V., Burditt is a reliable TV hand, which, given that the show’s third season was plagued with rumors of production strife even before it got hit with a pretty bad case of diminishing returns from critics, might be seen as something Ted Lasso needs.
Sudeikis, for his part, also issued a press statement with the news, although “press koan” might be a more accurate description, because we genuinely don’t know what the hell this means: “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.”
