Just two weeks in, 2021 was a very already. So, what better way to go about this weekend than to know it Ted Lasso Season 2 is officially underway.
Apple TV + shared a photo on social media Friday night with Brendan Hunt (also known as Coach Beard), title star Jason Sudeikis, and Nick Mohammed (who plays Nate Shelley as guitar assistant coach).
“Time to start warming up the biscuits,” reads the tweet. “Production for @TedLasso Season 2 has officially started!”
Ted Lasso grabbed a bit of all of us, based on a series of amusing, Sudeikis promotions for NBC Sports that aired in 2013. The premise of the series: The American football coach is appointed to manage AFC Richmond, an English manager. football team … despite the fact that they have no football coaching experience.
Called TVLine Ted Lasso one of the 10 best comedies of 2020, while Sudeikis earned an artist of the week for the episode in which the newly divorced Ted had a panic attack. TVLine readers both hosted the first-year finals and Season 1 as a whole, a rare average grade of “A +.”
Time to start warming up the biscuits. Production for @TedLasso Season 2 has officially started! pic.twitter.com/EHZWbwiY58
– Apple TV (@AppleTV) 15 January 2021
Apple TV + renewed the comedy for a second season, a few days after its August 14 premiere; A season 3 pickup arrived at the end of October, as Apple TV + claimed Ted Lasso was compiling completion records for an original series.
Already in August, Bill Lawrence, the co-creator of the series, said TV’s top 5 podcast that would do future seasons not takes in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to continue to provide “escape entertainment” to viewers. (In other words, don’t expect Richmond to fill his seats with cardboard cutouts.)
Hannah Waddingham (Sex education), Jeremy Swift (Downton Abbey), Temple of Juno (Dirty John), Brett Goldstein (Derek) and Phil Dunster (People) round off the cast.