Say it ain’t so! The highly-acclaimed hit Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso is likely to end after just season 3, according to creator Bill Lawrence.
Following its breakout first season and early second season renewal, Apple TV+ in Octobers renewed Ted Lasso for a third season, ahead of its second season start of production in London early January. Since its premiere on August 14, 2020, critics and fans globally have hailed the series as “terrific,” “hilarious,” “heart-swelling” and “infectious.”
Russ Burlingame for Comicbook.com:
It seems, though, that the series will not last past the episodes it already has ordered. Ted Lasso, which stars Jason Sudeikis as an American college football coach recruited to come and try to save a beleaguered English Premier League (soccer) team, is likely to end after three seasons because Sudeikis has a family, and likely will not want to be spending half his years an ocean apart from his kids.
While it has not yet been widely reported, Lawrence said as much on an early December episode of Fake Doctors, Real Friends, a Scrubs rewatch podcast… “Ted Lasso is a three-season show. After the third season, I will desperately try to get Mr. Sudeikis to do a…” Lawrence started, and then he stopped to rephrase. “The only way I think a fourth season of Ted Lasso exists would be if TL went and coached a soccer team that played about a block from Jason’s house in real life, you know what I mean? He’s got young kids.
MacDailyNews Take: Negotiating tactic.
Ted (and Jason), lured by big money in America, can easily move back home to coach a Major League Soccer team in the U.S.A.
Sometimes it’s good to end after a few seasons. „Breaking Bad“ ended after 5 seasons. It was just the right time. Perfect timing. It could not have gotten any better. „How I met your mother“ ended after 9 seasons. The right time would have been after 3 or 4 at the max. Let „Ted Lasso“ end after 3 seasons and it may be just right.
Exactly.
Better to go out like “Faulty Towers” than hang around like “All In The Family”.
Fawlty, not Faulty. Also known as “Farty Towels” which they actually displayed in the credits at the end of the show once while I was watching.
I thought about that after I typed it.
Also remembered different names at the beginning.
But yes, my fawlt….
I like the MDN thought of coaching an American soccer team. How about a KIDS soccer team. Jason can have his kids in it and film in LA.