Ted Lasso was officially renewed for season 4 last month, after months of rumors and signs that the show would indeed return with a new season on Apple TV+. Now star and writer Brett Goldstein has shared an update on season 4’s status, and explained what it’s been like to see the show revived.
Goldstein shares Ted Lasso season 4 status and story of returned cat believed dead
Brett Goldstein was interviewed on the latest episode of NPR’s Wild Card podcast with Rachel Martin.
In the episode, he provides an update on where things stand with work on Ted Lasso season 4.
Martin: Where are you in the process?
Goldstein: In the writer’s room at the moment…That’s obviously all I can tell you, I’m afraid.
Before Apple had announced Ted Lasso’s official return, signs pointed to a spring production start for the new season. More recently though, it’s seemed that summer will be the production kickoff instead.
Goldstein and the other writers being in the writers room right now fits with that timing.
The interview also contains a funny anecdote from Goldstein about how it feels to revive a show that seemingly had concluded with season 3.
It’s a strange thing. It’s like, I have a friend that I went to university with. I think about this a lot. He had a cat that died…he loved his cat, and the cat was run over, and they buried the cat, buried it, and he was his child. They buried the cat in the garden, and he lay in bed so sad, so upset and crying, and he prayed and he prayed and he wished, I wish the cat would come back, and it turned out that the cat that they’d buried wasn’t their cat.
And so the cat came back, and I think about that all the time…They buried a different cat…
I guess I’m saying I feel like that kid. Like, we buried it. We all cried. We had a funeral. Are you saying we can bring anything back?
It seems clear that Goldstein and the rest of the creative team truly believed Ted Lasso was over when season 3 ended, with no return ever planned. But after lots of wishing and hoping over the years, now it’s coming back.
Sometimes you’ve just got to believe.
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