Jason Sudeikis holds out hope for more 'Ted Lasso'

"Ted Lasso" star and co-creator Jason Sudeikis says that he doesn't know if the show will continue, but he wants it to and assumes Apple TV does too.

It took three years for Apple to revive "Ted Lasso," and that was despite then-CEO Tim Cook himself wanting more. Now with the fourth season finished, Jason Sudeikis has said he hopes for more.

Speaking on the podcast "Talk Easy with Sam Frogoso," Sudeikis said that the idea of reviving the show at all was to do more than one new run. "I mean, that was the endeavor of going back into it," he said, "just sort of like, oh, I think there's more in there."

"I would like to [do more], yeah, I think it would be fun," he said. "I just don't know. We haven't started a writers' room or anything like that."

But asked if Apple would do more so long as he wanted to keep doing it, Sudeikis said "I would assume so."

The odds of a fifth season are already high, though, because of how Apple TV tends to commission two seasons at a time. That's common practice in television for contractual reasons, but it can also be that a streamer will cancel a show rather than take up the option for the next run.

That normally happens when a show fails to perform, and while Apple has not released official figures, "Ted Lasso" season four is estimated to have attracted nearly 300 million US viewing minutes in its first two days. There were previous reports of the production having been problematic, though.

Reports in July 2026 said that production ran a month behind schedule. It was also said that problems had resulted in what were called "come to Jesus" Zoom calls between the production team and Apple TV.

Previously, television producers have told AppleInsider off the record that Apple TV is hands-off so long as it likes the footage it's seeing and there are no problems. If Apple decides it needs to step in on a production, however, the chances of further seasons are nil.

Back in July, Sudeikis said that he intended to get a writers' room together for a fifth and perhaps sixth season by August. That apparently hasn't happened yet, but Sudeikis could well now be contractually bound not to say so.