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'Ted Lasso' is Returning to Apple TV, Here's When

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Apple today announced that its hit comedy-drama series "Ted Lasso" is returning for a fourth season in "summer 2026," but it did not share a specific date.

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"Ted Lasso" is one of the most popular shows ever released on the Apple TV streaming service. The eponymous character Ted Lasso, played by Jason Sudeikis, starts off as a small-time football coach from Kansas who is hired to coach a professional soccer team in England, despite having no experience coaching soccer.

In the fourth season, Apple says Lasso returns to England to take on his biggest challenge yet: coaching a second division women's soccer team.

"Throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learn to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would," said Apple.


The fourth season is currently in production, according to Apple, and fan favorites such as Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, and Jeremy Swift are all set to return in the upcoming episodes.

The third season of "Ted Lasso" was released in 2023, so there has been a long wait for a fourth season. The series has won several major awards since it debuted in 2020, with its overall positive tone making it a popular comfort show.

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I liked this show until the biscuit lady started dating a person much much younger than her that she managed professionally. I've heard a few people say the same thing, maybe they'll figure this out in S4
 
Bkxmnr said:
For the love of all that is good a right - NO! Season 3 ended on a high note. All loose ends tied up. All character arcs closed. What can they possibly do in season 4 that will make it interesting to watch?
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It seems they are starting all over again.
It looks a bit sketchy but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
 
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I liked the Roy character in S1 but that wasn't enough to keep watching. Most of the other characters were downright annoying, and I'm not a fan of the sport anyway. 🥱
 
Waiting for the other shoe to drop.. If you want Lasso, you need the new Pro version of AppleTV,
 
I don’t think I even finished the 2nd season. I get that it is supposed to be a show all about the “feels” but everything happening felt very low stakes and I just lost interest in the show.
 
Likely in conjunction with World Cup.

I tried a few s1 eps, but never felt compelled to go back and finish the season - and I'm a soccer/optimism nerd. Just wasn't quite doing it for me back when I tried it on. Maybe I'll give it another whirl. Maybe [likely] not. Feel I missed that boat - for better or worse.
 
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What made this show so good were the characters, if they remake it with a female soccer team, with mostly new characters it will not be as good.
 
They wrapped up the character arcs in season 3 and stuck the landing, I'm ok with how this is an all new story. I just wish they would have made a clean break and had a story told in the US. Ted Lasso trains an MLS team would have been the perfect tie-in for Apple's interest in promoting the league and would legitimately reset all the characters. Maybe they could've had a friendly match to revisit Richmond later in the season but going back to Richmond for the story when he had made up his mind to go home undoes Ted's story arc.
 
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I had Apple TV from pretty much their first days in operation (got a free year of it with a computer I bought, and then Apple extended that free subscription another 6 months or so). I always felt like they were short on programming that really interested me, though I found several great shows to watch. Severance was probably my favorite.

I avoided Ted Lasso because I'm not a sports person at all, and just didn't see how I'd care about a sports comedy that involved a guy coaching British soccer.

I finally gave the show a chance near the end of last year, when we were just bored and looking for something different to watch. And wow! I was really impressed with it. It wasn't flawless but lots of great moments of humor sprinkled into a story arc that made you really care about the characters and watch them evolve/grow as individuals.

When we got through the final episode, I was happy they wrapped it up nicely like they did -- but I guess I also sensed it was inevitable they'd do another season. Just too well done and successful a series to not go back to it....

Seems difficult to grasp how it can have another season though, and not just feel like they're re-hashing what they already did? As the previous poster said; I think I'd be more interested if this picked up back in America. Make it a story about Ted's life after doing the soccer coaching stint in the U.K. Even then, Ted Lasso is a guy who learned a lot about himself, while trying to concern himself with everyone else's problems. He's no longer the guy who deflects from his own issues. That makes it tough to watch more content about him. We already watched that whole personal change unfold.
 
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lazyrighteye said:
Likely in conjunction with World Cup.

I tried a few s1 eps, but never felt compelled to go back and finish the season - and I'm a soccer/optimism nerd. Just wasn't quite doing it for me back when I tried it on. Maybe I'll give it another whirl. Maybe [likely] not. Feel I missed that boat - for better or worse.
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Love to read more considered posts on MR. I'd say give it a fresh chance – but go to the end of at least the first season.
This show has heart and a depth that take a little while to take full effect.
 
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