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“Saturday Night Live” alum Jason Sudeikis returns with a new season of “Ted Lasso,” premiering Wednesday, Aug. 5, on Apple TV. Brendan Hunt, Jason Sudeikis and Tanya Reynolds in “Ted Lasso”
Cover Story Off the bench: Diamond Dog days are back again with new ‘Ted Lasso’ By Sarah Passingham Just when he thought he was out, they pulled him back in. After more than three years since its last season, “Ted Lasso” returns to Apple TV for its fourth season Wednesday, Aug. 5. The first installment of the 10-episode season drops on premiere day with new episodes available to stream weekly. The titular coach, portrayed by “Saturday Night Live” alum Jason Sudeikis, whose contagious eternal optimism forever changed the fictional English Premier League team AFC Richmond before he headed back home to Kansas City, Missouri, in last season’s finale, dusts off his “believe” poster for a different coaching gig. Ted is back in Richmond upon Thames and in the AFC Richmond facilities, but he’s not coaching the team audiences have grown to love throughout the show’s first three seasons. With the “Richmond
Way” chapter now closed, the show was due for a twist. The series gives Ted a new opportunity this season with the club’s fledgling Division 2 women’s team. Club owner Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham, “Sex Education”) is in need of a coach for her latest expansion of the Greyhounds and Ted is just the man for the job. Per Apple TV, “in Season 4, Ted returns to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet: coaching a second division women’s football team. Throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learn to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would.” By Ted’s side as always is Coach Willis Beard (Brendan Hunt, “Bless This Mess”) and a new, as-yet-unnamed addition to the coaching staff, portrayed by “The Other Bennet Sister” star Tanya Reynolds. Other returning cast members include Juno Temple (“Fargo”) as PR wiz Keeley Jones; Brett
Goldstein (“Shrinking”) as gruff retired footballer Roy Kent; Jeremy Swift (“All Creatures Great & Small”) as the nervous but lovable director of operations Leslie Higgins; and Annette Badland (“Run Away”) as stern pub landlady Mae Green. There has been a considerable amount of time between the third season of “Ted Lasso” and the upcoming new episodes. However, not much time has passed in the show since we saw the characters last. Understandably, there’s been a recast of Ted’s son Henry, now portrayed by Grant Feely (“Obi-Wan Kenobi”). “Lord of the Flies” actor Gus Turner previously portrayed the role of Henry. Character details are under wraps for now, but an official teaser trailer for the new season offers up a peek into what is in store. Keeley and Roy lock eyes in the halls of the club facility while Higgins stands between them clutching his diary, making the scene look un-
cannily like a bride, groom and officiant standing at the altar. Love is in the air but are those also wedding bells ringing? Short clips of the upcoming season speed by, set to “Rubber Band Man” by Mumford & Sons, including some eager potential footballers sprinting onto the pitch, a warm and insulting welcome back to Ted from a local, Rebecca living the good life with her new beau and a performance art piece by Coach Beard’s wife Jane (Phoebe Walsh, “Stath Lets Flats”). In February, Waddingham spoke to Deadline about the new season focusing on “our Lady Greyhounds,” expressing her admiration of the show, saying, “I love it. I love Rebecca Welton, my character, and the writing is so magnificent. Jason Sudeikis and the writers room, it’s like a finely tuned machine. And the life lessons that you realize that they’re just tipping in here and there, it’s brilliant.”
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