Channing Dungey, Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros Tv Group, has revealed that she has “had conversations” about bringing again the hit Jason Sudeikis sitcom Ted Lasso.
The much-loved comedy about an American faculty soccer coach who’s employed to handle an English Premier League group ran for 3 seasons from 2020 to 2023 on Apple TV+.
Deadline reviews that whereas talking on the Banff World Media Competition on Monday, Dungey stated that she’d mentioned returning to the world of the present, both for a fourth season or with a spin-off specializing in one of many present’s characters.
“We’ve had conversations about the entire above,” stated Dungey.
“I believe Jason Sudeikis is open to the concept, however I believe he needs to have the fitting thought, which I recognize. We at Warner Bros recognize, Apple appreciates, as a result of it’s the kind of factor the place you don’t need to go do extra only for the sake of extra, you need to go do extra since you even have one thing to say, you may have a narrative that you simply need to inform. We’ll see what occurs.”
On the identical occasion, Dungey additionally stated that she had thought of which Warner Bros movies might be tailored or rebooted for tv.
“I take into consideration issues like Ocean’s Eleven, for instance. That type of a caper movie, which is a good two-hour romp and what we would be capable to do with that in kind of a restricted collection format, issues like that is likely to be type of enjoyable,” she stated.
She continued: “However there are simply so many titles that it’s actually extra about somebody strolling into the workplace with a perspective or a viewpoint, or this is the reason we must always do that on this means. It’s not like there’s one title that I’m like, ‘Oh, I can’t wait to mud it off’. It’s extra after I have a look at sure movies and assume, ‘Okay, this was a tremendous two and a half hours. But when we had an extended time frame to discover these classes, or to sort out that story, that’s actually the place the enjoyable begins.’”
In a four-star evaluation of the third season of Ted Lasso, The Impartial’s Amanda Whiting wrote: “Regardless of no affirmation from Apple, there’s been ample hypothesis, fuelled by Sudeikis’s feedback, that that is the award-winning collection’ last outing, a risk that’s laboriously foreshadowed by Ted’s ennui.
“‘Possibly my being right here is doing extra hurting than serving to at this level,’ he says, a little bit nonsensically, contemplating he simply led Richmond again to soccer’s high tier, however no matter. If that is the tip, I hope to see Roy Kent spray non-alcoholic champagne into the air in victory, whether or not it makes any sense or not.”
