Just two weeks later, 2021 was a very already. What better way to enter the weekend than knowing that Ted Lasso Season 2 is officially underway.
Apple TV + shared a photo on social media on Friday night, featuring Brendan Hunt (aka Coach Beard), title star Jason Sudeikis and Nick Mohammed (who plays assistant coach Nate Shelley).
“It’s time to start heating these cookies,” said the tweet. “Production for the 2nd season of @TedLasso has officially started!”
Ted Lasso kind of sneaked up on all of us, based on a series of fun NBC Sports promotions aimed at Sudeikis that aired in 2013. The premise of the series: the head football coach is hired to run AFC Richmond, English football team … despite having no experience as a football coach.
TVLine call Ted Lasso one of the 10 Best Comedies of 2020, while Sudeikis won the Artist of the Week award for the episode in which the newly divorced Ted suffered a panic attack. TVLine readers gave the end of the first year and Season 1 as a whole received a rare average grade of “A +”.
It’s time to start heating these cookies. Production for @TedLasso Season 2 has officially started! pic.twitter.com/EHZWbwiY58
– Apple TV (@AppleTV) January 15, 2021
Apple TV + renewed the buzzing comedy for a second season just days after its August 14 premiere; the increase in the third season came at the end of October, when Apple TV + stated that Ted Lasso was setting completion records for an original series.
In August, series co-creator Bill Lawrence said Top 5 on TV podcast that future seasons would not incorporate the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in order to continue providing viewers with “escapist entertainment”. (In other words, don’t expect to see Richmond fill your seats with cardboard cutouts.)
Hannah Waddingham (Sex education), Jeremy Swift (Downton Abbey), Juno Temple (Dirty John), Brett Goldstein (Derek) and Phil Dunster (Humans) complete the cast.