Ted Lasso Season 3 Likely Delayed Due to ‘Football Wrinkle’
Ted Lasso fans may have to wait a while longer for new episodes.
Whereas Seasons 1 and 2 of the Emmy-winning Apple TV+ comedy bowed in August and July, respectively, series co-creator Brendan Hunt (aka Coach Beard) says that viewers should anticipate a slightly later premiere date for Season 3.
“We’re in pre-production and scripts are written,” he tells TVLine, but cameras will start rolling later than usual because of a “football wrinkle” — specifically, “when we might shoot football [scenes].
“We are definitely starting later this year than in Season 2, that’s for sure,” Hunt says. “So I would be surprised if our delivery dates were the same. That’s above my pay grade, I don’t know for sure, but I do have a vague understanding of the limits of this dimension we call time, and I would say it seems pretty unlikely that we would [premiere] as early this year.”
But rest assured, cameras will start rolling “soon,” he says — likely by the end of February. “It’ll happen, and it’ll take longer than people want it to, [but] we’re just going to try and get it right.”
Ted Lasso Season 2 ended on a major cliffhanger: After lashing out at Ted, Nick Mohammed’s Nate resigned as Richmond’s assistant coach and took a new job as head coach of Rupert’s newly acquired West Ham United. (TVLine spoke with Mohammed about Nate’s Season 2 transformation, which you can read here.)
Little is known about Season 3, though fellow co-creator/exec producer Bill Lawrence previously confirmed that both Sarah Niles (who was first introduced in the Season 2 premiere as team psychologist Dr. Sharon Fieldstone) and recurring guest star James Lance (who plays former sports columnist Trent Crimm) will factor heavily into the next 12 episodes, despite their presumed exits in the Oct. 8 finale.
TVLine has reached out to Apple TV+ for comment on Ted Lasso‘s potential delay. In the meantime, hit the comments with your hopes for Season 3.
Slight error – you meant “soccer wrinkle,” and when they might film “soccer scenes.” This is still America, and it’s still soccer over here.
As an American who loves American football and almost never watches soccer…
I completely disagree with this comment.
Oh please! This is actually comical
He’s talking within the context of the series. On the show they’re a pretend football team playing football in a British league.
Americans, so sensitive, so easily threatened.
My favorite thing about American football is that most of the time players use hands to carry a non-spherical pigskin, so it shouldn’t even be called football.
Gee whiz, guys, I was (99%) joking. Love Ted Lasso, don’t care what they call the game.
Okay but what does wrinkle mean here in this context?
It’s a minor hurtle or snag. Filming the football scenes are a minor hurtle or snag.
Hurdle, not hurtle
Okay, thank you.
I can’t with ATV, shoddy service. Please put Ted Lasso on DVD. I know of many who would buy it. Saw season one but then had to quit because of statement number one.
I will probably drop Apple tv, and wait until a few seasons of Ted Lasso arrive, mainly because I have little interest in the fare offered. I am a big fan of Ted Lasso, but content of Apple tv-pretty lame.
No matter how long it takes I will still be salivating with anticipation for season three to begin! Ted Lasso has got me wrapped around his finger.
The sooner the better. I love this show.