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Ted Lasso director Declan Lowney has teased that fans may not have seen the last of Jason Sudeikis's comedic sports coach - or the rest of the characters at the AFC Richmond team.
the third, and reportedly final, season. came to an end earlier this year with the airing of the last episode in the third, and reportedly final, season. However, 63-year-old Irish director Declan has hinted that there could be more stories to come about Ted and the team.
The director was behind the camera for the last two episodes of the series - where he filmed 80 pages of scripts and forged more footage than what ended up in those last two episodes. However there might be a few years before a new Ted Lasso story makes it to screen.
Opening up to The Hollywood Reporter, Declan said of season three: “Everybody knew it was the end, but it’s also the end for now… It’s going to be two or three years before anything happens — if anything happens — so let’s try and tie up all these stories properly.”
TV fans might not have seen the last of Ted Lasso after all (Apple TV+)He explained that the last two episodes had a lot more content than fans saw. He recalled: “I’m trying to remember how the script was delivered, because I’ve a feeling I might have gotten a big chunk of it, and then there’d be more coming — but I didn’t know how much more yet. I was like, ‘There’s a lot of tying up to do!’
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“And then Jason gave me the remaining pages and it was like, ‘Ah! That’s what he’s doing here.’ But it is very hard to stand back and say, ’S**t, guys … there’s 80 pages here.’ We shot it as we went along, and it’s very hard to gauge these things until you put it all together.”
“Six weeks later, something else appears at the other end [in the edit], but it’s also about 10 minutes shorter than it was.”
Show creator Jason left fans disappointed earlier this year when he insisted season three would be the last of Ted Lasso. He said in June: “This story is done. It sounds like such a political answer, but it’s the truth. We only conceived these three [seasons], then this thing became this big old thing."
Teasing stories continuing for characters in other ways, he added: “Whether it’s [a book], whether it’s doing podcasts about the episodes to offer those audio commentaries... just to talk through things and the themes. And also it would explain the show in a much more cerebral way than I ever would have been able to explain it to anybody. Yeah, there’s opportunities, I think, for spin-offs.”