‘Ted Lasso’ will end with season three, says Brett Goldstein

Spilling the tea! Ted Lasso’s Keeley Jones and Rebecca Watson aren’t the only ones who like to have a little “goss” session. Juno Temple and Hannah Waddingham, who play the leading ladies on the Apple TV+ series, can often be found bonding in the hair and makeup trailer on set — alongside beauty stylist Nicky Austin.

WARNING: This post contains spoilers for Umbrella Academy season 3.

Ted would get a kick out of this. Hair and makeup designer Nicky Austin has been incorporating subtle Easter eggs into characters’ looks since season 1 of Ted Lasso — and she’s now revealing the strategy behind each nod.

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EXCLUSIVE: For years I sat right by a U.K. national newspaper sports desk. Few things excited me more than when, if I happened to be in the office of an evening, a rare thing, and there was a big soccer game showing on the giant screens located where the sports writers lived, then I’d dive right in and watch.

Playing Roy Kent on Ted Lasso hasn’t just given Brett Goldstein the biggest success of his career, with an Emmy award and tons of acclaim to boot; the hot-tempered but bookish star-player-turned-coach role has given TV viewers one of the most indelible characters of our time. As a co-producer, writer and executive story editor on the show, Goldstein is a major part of its international success. His next project sees him re-teaming as EP and writer with Ted Lasso co-producer Bill Lawrence for Shrinking, another Apple TV+ series, about a grieving therapist played by Jason Segel, co-starring Harrison Ford.

EXCLUSIVE: Screen Media has acquired North American rights to the road-trip comedy The Nan Movie, written by Catherine Tate (The Office) and Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso), with plans for a day-and-date theatrical and on-demand release this July.

Based on a character Jason Sudeikis originally created for NBC promos, Ted Lasso the guy evolved into Ted Lasso, the Apple TV+ comedy series. It quickly became a hit, securing 20 Emmy nominations and seven wins in its first season including for Outstanding Comedy Series. The second season premiered in July 2021, and a third season recently began filming.

Jason Sudeikis is hard at work on Ted Lasso season 3!

Comedy is the subject today for this week’s edition of Deadline’s podcast, TV Talk. Deadline TV critic Dominic Patten and Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond take on the Emmy Awards race for Best Comedy Series, where Apple TV+’s juggernaut Ted Lasso is looking for a two-peat after taking the category in its first season last year.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterPlenty of newbies will be breaking into the comedy category this Emmys season, but two leading rivals for the title will be actual competitors for the first time: “Atlanta” and “Ted Lasso.”As wildly different series that fall into the same genre in the awards competition, their performances in this race will likely lead to a discussion about the industry’s relationship with feel-good TV.“Those shows are going to have interesting moments, both with Donald Glover having been out of the spotlight for a minute, intentionally, taking a detour with a music career that was more successful than I think a lot of people expected,” a Hollywood industry insider told Variety, “while there’s been probably more publicity than I think Apple would like on the fact that the upcoming third season is likely the last season of ‘Ted Lasso.’” The Jason Sudeikis-led Apple TV+ comedy is the reigning champ and has never aired in an “Atlanta”-less world, while Donald Glover’s show is a twice-nominated FX series that has lost twice, first to HBO’s “Veep” in Season 1 and then to Prime Video’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” in Season 2.And just as “Ted Lasso” has been a topic of joyful conversation continuously for almost two years, the very idea of when “Atlanta’s” Europe-set Season 3 would finally premiere — following a four-year wait since Season 2 — has also been a much-discussed event.“I’d anticipate that if ‘Atlanta’ was gone for so long and came back as the exact same thing, it probably would have less of a chance,” another industry insider says.

Typically, when it comes to American TV, if a series is really popular, then a network will keep renewing it and renewing it, eventually leading to a drop in quality and fans being upset. Well, it doesn’t appear that’s going to be the case with “Ted Lasso.” READ MORE: Comedy Series Emmys 2022 Predictions & Contenders Speaking to The Times recently, “Ted Lasso” star, co-creator, and writer Brett Goldstein confirmed that the plan for the show is to still end it after its upcoming third season.

Despite their awards season success, critical acclaim and fan devotion, “Ted Lasso” may be following through with their initial game plan to limit the show to just three seasons.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThrough the years, there have been countless creators, producers, directors and actors who have gone without an Emmy Award. And then there are those lucky enough to earn multiple kudos for different projects — in the same year.That could be the case for numerous stars leading up to the 2022 Emmys, with more than a dozen actors with multiple projects in contention.Elle Fanning is Hulu’s shining star this year, with both “The Great” and “The Girl From Plainville” in the conversation; not only does she lead the comedy and the dark drama, she also serves as an executive producer on both.“I only had two weeks in between to go from ‘The Great’ to ‘The Girl From Plainville.’ So it was a complete 180 for sure,” says Fanning of wrapping the second season of the period comedy and heading into the true-crime story.

All the buzz around Season 3 of Apple’s Ted Lasso being the hit comedy’s final appears to be accurate. Series star Brett Goldstein all but confirmed as much in a new interview.

Selome Hailu Brett Goldstein, who serves as a writer on “Ted Lasso” and stars as Roy Kent, has said that the show’s third season is being written as its last.“We are writing it like that,” he told Sunday Times when asked if Season 3 would be the end. “It was planned as three. Spoiler alert — everyone dies.”Goldstein’s comments are consistent with what other members of the “Ted Lasso” crew have said in the past.

Brett Goldstein, who plays Roy Kent on the Apple TV+ soccer comedy in addition to writing on the show, told the this week that, as far as the writers are concerned, the upcoming third season will be the show's last, ending with its series finale.«We are writing it like that. It was planned as three,» Goldstein shared, later joking, «Spoiler alert — everyone dies.»Creator and star Jason Sudeikis spoke with ET last October, following 'shuge night at the 2021 Emmys — where the show won seven awards including Outstanding Comedy Series.

The UK Sunday Times when asked if Season 3 would mark the end of the show. “It was planned as three. Spoiler alert: everyone dies.”Before the Apple TV+ comedy gained immense popularity (and a bevy of Emmys), the plan was always to write it as a three-season arc.

Ted Lasso might be ending with just three seasons, after all.