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Jason Sudeikis has officially confirmed that “Ted Lasso” is getting a Season 4.
“We’re writing Season 4 now. That’s the official word,” the former “Saturday Night Live” star, 49, announced during Travis and Jason Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast on Friday.
Sudeikis clarified that Season 4 will have a different premise, with his character, Ted Lasso, coaching a different team.
“Ted’s coaching, yeah, a women’s team. So there, that’s…”
When Travis Kelce pressed Sudeikis about the plot and location, asking, “Is he coming back to the States or…?”
Sudeikis replied, “Yeah, that’s too many questions.”
The NFL player’s brother, retired Philadelphia Eagles player Jason, chimed in: “We’ll leave it at that. We’ll leave it at that.”
“And it’s only because I don’t have, I don’t have… I don’t know,” said Sudeikis.
The Post reached out to Apple TV+ for comment.
In a statement in a press release on Friday confirming the news, Sudeikis said, “In Season 4, 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.”
“‘Ted Lasso’ has been nothing short of a juggernaut, inspiring a passionate fanbase all over the world, and delivering endless joy and laughter, all while spreading kindness, compassion and unwavering belief,” Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+, said.
“Everyone at Apple is thrilled to be continuing our collaboration with Jason and the brilliant creative minds behind this show.”
On Friday, the official AppleTV+ Instagram account also posted a photo of a stadium seat with “4” written on it, above the words, “Ted Lasso.”
“If ever there was a show the world needed more of right now, it would be ‘Ted Lasso,’” Warner Bros. Television and WBD US Networks chairman Channing Dungey said in a statement.
“We — along with countless fans around the globe — have been rooting for another season, and it is an incredible feeling to be able to say, ‘Yes, it’s happening!’ We thank our partners at Apple and can’t wait for Jason and the entire ‘Ted Lasso’ dream team to step back onto the pitch and deliver another season of this phenomenal series.”
For the first time since Oct. 2023, the Ted Lasso account posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday.
Speaking in character as the folksy coach Ted Lasso, the tweet read, “Finally found the dang password to this thing. Sorry y’all. What’d I miss?”
The Emmy-winning Apple TV+ comedy ran for three seasons between 2020 and 2023 before supposedly ending in 2023.
The show was a “fish out of water” premise following American football coach Ted Lasso, who found himself coaching AFC Richmond, a down on their luck English football (soccer) team, including players like the surly Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein, also a writer/ producer) and the egotistical Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster), and the sunny Danny Rojas (Cristo Fernández), all while bonding with team owner Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) and PR consultant Keely (Juno Temple).
If Ted is coaching a women’s team in Season 4, it’s unclear if cast members such as Dunster, Goldstein, Fernández, Temple, or Waddingham will return. Sudeikis did not elaborate on casting.
Although the show ended in 2023, the creatives such as Sudeikis and co-creator Bill Lawrence were cagey about whether that was the real end.
“You can ask anybody that wrote on the show, or acted on the show, or produced the show, and we will all say the same thing, which is, that’s up to Jason Sudeikis,” Lawrence told The Post in Aug. 2024.
Season 1 earned 20 Emmy nominations, becoming the most nominated freshman comedy in history. Seasons 2 and 3 also scored over 20 Emmy nominations, and several wins.
Season 3 had some loose ends, however — at various times, the show hinted at a romance between Ted and Rebecca, which never took off. There was also a love triangle between Jamie, Roy, and Keely that felt unresolved. The show ended with Ted returning to Kansas.
In March 2023, Sudeikis told Deadline, “This is the end of this story that we wanted to tell, that we were hoping to tell, that we loved to tell. The fact that folks will want more and are curious beyond more than what they don’t even know yet—that being Season 3—it’s flattering.”
“As a fan, of course, I’d love to see it again,” Lawrence told The Post.
“But whatever [Sudeikis] ends up doing, I’m totally down with. And I get it.”
In Dec. 2024, Lawrence added to The Post, “Why you know something? Because if someone wants to do a Season 4, tell them I said yes. Just say it. Just put it out there.”
