TED LASSO NEW SERIES SPECULATION HOTS UP
According to the latest rumours ‘pre-production is confirmed with London shoots beginning in early 2025.’
Excitement should be tempered by the ongoing silence from the series creator, who plays Ted Lasso, actor Jason Sudeikis as well as co-writer Brendan Hunt, who plays Coach Beard. Neither Apple TV+ or Warner Bros have made any official comment.
The series was based in Richmond and other local locations and studio filming took place at West London Studios near the Hayes and Yeading football stadium where the football scenes took place.
US-based showbiz writers have pointed to the ‘evidence’ that Jason and Brendan were not ‘doing anything of significance at all’ and that ‘perhaps they were quietly writing season 4.’
Last month we reported that according to the respected website Deadline that Apple TV+ had exercised contract options for several British members of the cast including Hannah Waddingham, who plays AFC Richmond owner Rebecca Welton, Brett Goldstein, who plays coach Roy Kent; and Jeremy Swift, who plays Richmond’s Director of Operations Leslie Higgins.
Now according to Sigmund Judge, a writer for MacStories and co-host of the Magic Rays of Light podcast, Season 4 is a done deal. “Ted Lasso S4 is set to begin pre-production in January,” he writes on X. According to my sources, the football drama is now confirmed to return next year with a fourth instalment, with London shoots beginning in early 2025!”
Other cast members like Juno Temple who plays PR company owner Keeley Jones have dropped hints. “I don’t know yet. I’ve heard that it sounds like it may be happening, so that’s really exciting,” she said at the Emmys.
“I think it would be really interesting to catch up with the characters and find out where their journeys go next. But I think it’s important that the journeys feel like a continued life. Especially for my character who I think has been a really interesting character for women. I want to see what the next chapter of her life is.”
Nick Mohammed who plays kitman-turned-coach Nate says he and the other cast members still talk about the show because it was so significant in their lives and acting careers.
“I’ve never known a job like it,” he says. “No-one really prepares you for something going well. We all still talk about the show. We’re all so indebted to it. We’re so grateful. It has genuinely touched audiences. People get in contact about it all the time.”
Like all the actors in the show, he won’t say much: “I know there are rumblings about a season 4, but who knows. I’m here for it if there is. If season four is happening, then I’d love it.”