It seems that Ted Lasso is really winning everyone: Jason Sudeikis won the statue of the actor in the musical or comedy series at the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards.
This was HFPA’s first Sudeikis nomination and therefore the first victory. It was for his interpretation of the titular football coach who crossed the lake to work for a Premier League team in the half hour of freshman Apple TV Plus. But Sudeikis first portrayed the character more than half a decade ago, in promotional videos for NBC Sports coverage of the Premier League in real life. The character’s expansion into a lively sitcom won public and critical acclaim when it debuted during the tumultuous summer of 2020, and also won its first prize.
Sudeikis was nominated alongside Don Cheadle for “Black Monday”, “The Great” Nicholas Hoult, for “Schitt’s Creek” by Eugene Levy and the winner in the category, “Ramy” Ramy Youssef.
“Ted Lasso” is currently in production for its second season in London. It was renewed for a third season in October, before the start of production for the second season.
The character Ted Lasso originally appeared in an NBC Sports video in 2013 to help promote the fact that NBC Sports would start broadcasting English Premier League games. The success was so great that NBC brought the character back the following year to act as an analyst.
The show proved popular with critics, with the first season getting an approval rating of 86% on Rotten Tomatoes. Variety’s Caroline Framke praised the program as she watched it, writing: “Above all odds, ‘Ted Lasso’ lessened my skepticism until there was none left – just as the character himself does with everyone he meets.”