'Ted Lasso' Season 4 Is Missing Main Cast Members Amid Scheduling Conflict

Production has officially begun on season 4 of Ted Lasso — but that doesn’t mean every main cast member is coming back.

Apple TV+ announced on Monday, July 21, that the cast has reunited in Kansas City, Missouri, to start filming the next season. The first-look photo offered a glimpse at some — but not all — of the show’s beloved characters.

Jason Sudeikis, who plays the titular character, Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple and Jeremy Swift were all seated in a corner booth at a restaurant in the photo. According to Apple TV+’s press release, Sudeikis, Temple, Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt and Swift will be returning alongside season 4 newcomers Tanya Reynolds, Jude Mack, Faye Marsay, Rex Hayes, Aisling Sharkey, Abbie Hern and Grant Feely, who is taking over the role of Ted’s son, Henry, from Gus Turner.

Phil Dunster a.k.a Jamie Tarte was not on the list and multiple outlets have since confirmed that he will not be a series regular in the upcoming season. Dunster, 33, has reportedly signed on to be a regular in a new HBO project created by Ted Lasso executive producer Bill Lawrence, which has created a scheduling conflict, according to Deadline.

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Also missing from the season 4 cast announcement are Nick Mohammed, Sarah Niles, Anthony Head, Toheeb Jimoh, James Lance, Cristo Fernandez, Kola Bokinni and Billy Harris.

Ted Lasso, which premiered in 2020, follows an American football coach who moves across the pond to run a soccer team. After the show became a massive hit, fans questioned whether the series was over after the originally planned three-season arc or whether there was hope for more episodes.

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“This story is done,” Sudeikis, 49, claimed on the “Fly on the Wall” podcast in May 2023. “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.”

Sudeikis mentioned that the Ted Lasso team has “thought about” potential spinoffs after seeing the demand for more.

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“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,” he shared. “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 spinoffs.”

The actor subsequently pitched the idea of several characters from the universe getting their own show.

“I think that we’ve set the table for all sorts of folks … to get to watch the further telling of these stories,” he told Deadline in March 2023. “I can’t help but take the question as flattery for what all of us that were working on the show has tried to do. It’s really kind of folks to even consider that because you never know what’s gonna happen when you make things. The fact that people want more, even if it’s a different avenue is lovely.”

Sudeikis has since walked the decision back with plans for at least one more season.

“We’re writing season 4 now,” Sudeikis shared on a March episode of Jason and Travis Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast. “That’s the word. Ted’s coaching a women’s team. So there, that’s [happening].”