‘Ted Lasso’ to End After Season 3, Says Brett Goldstein

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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.

Series co-creator Jason Sudeikis made room for speculation as to where the show would go after Season 3 in a previous interview with Entertainment Weekly.“The story that’s being told – that three-season arc – is one that I see, know, and understood,” Sudeikis said. “I’m glad that they are willing to pay for those three seasons.

As far as what happens after that, who knows? I don’t know.”Co-creator Brendan Hunt, who plays Coach Beard, told EW that he would go with whatever Sudeikis decided. “I think we’ve always meant it to be three seasons.

I think it would be pretty cool if, in the face of how much everyone likes this show, that we stick to our guns and really just do three seasons,” he said. “But even as committed to that idea as Jason may have been, none of us were prepared to the degree to which people love this show. […] I will say that, whatever [Jason] decides, I will happily abide.” Executive Producer Bill Lawrence envisions other stories to tell in the “Ted Lasso” universe.“The initial story Jason had in his head is a three-season arc, [but] I’m hopeful there’s more Ted Lasso stories to tell after three seasons,” he said.Goldstein, who has signed a multiyear contract with Warner Bros.