“Ted Lasso” is set to return this summer, Apple TV has confirmed.
Season 4 of the soccer-themed series, which stars Jason Sudeikis as a Kansas football coach who relocates to the U.K., will debut Aug. 5 with episodes dropping weekly until Oct. 7. Sudeikis also exec produces the series.
Returning alongside Sudeikis are Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt and Jeremy Swift. They will be joined by new castmembers Tanya Reynolds, Jude Mack, Faye Marsay, Rex Hayes, Aisling Sharkey, Abbie Hern and Grant Feely.
Season 4 will see Ted returning to Richmond to coach a second division women’s soccer team. In a new trailer, Sudeikis can be seen trying to coach his young hopefuls while in another scene he is berated for “coaching a bunch of girls – you wanker!”
“Throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learn to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would,” promises the synopsis.
Jack Burditt, who has a new overall deal with Apple TV, joins Season 4 as executive producer alongside Hunt, Joe Kelly, Jane Becker, Jamie Lee and Bill Wrubel.
Goldstein, who plays soccer star Roy Kent in the show, also serves as a writer and exec producer alongside Leann Bowen. Sarah Walker and Phoebe Walsh. Sasha Garron co-produces.
Julia Lindon will write for Season 4, while Dylan Marron is story editor. Bill Lawrence executive produces via Doozer Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television, a division of NBCUniversal content. Doozer’s Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer also serve as executive producers.
Check out the trailer for Season 4 below: