The Ted Lasso machine might be lumbering back to life
Apple has used its contract options for Hannah Waddingham and Brett Goldstein, which would be a first step toward Ted Lasso's fourth season
A hypothetical fourth season of Ted Lasso has seemed, from the first moment people started shrugging toward its potential existence, like a pipe dream. There’s something almost poignant about Apple’s unwillingness to bid a final, definitive farewell to the series, despite it telegraphing, with what we’d call some pretty extreme measures, that its third-season finale was a pretty good stopping point. After all, nobody likes to watch a loved one—i.e., the massive amounts of subscription dollars and Emmys the well-loved sports comedy regularly brought in for the streamer—say goodbye, and so AppleTV+’s refusal to admit things were over almost bordered on sweet.
