You better believe it: Ted Lasso is officially back as Apple TV+ has greenlighted a fourth season of its flagship comedy series. Jason Sudeikis is set to return as star and executive producer with his beloved Coach Ted Lasso character taking on a women’s team.
According to sources, Juno Temple, who played Keeley in the first three seasons, is in negotiations to rejoin fellow original cast members Sudeikis (Coach Lasso) as well as Hannah Waddingham (Rebecca), Brett Goldstein (Roy) and Jeremy Swift (Leslie) who were locked in for the new installment back in August.
And, picking up where Season 3 left off, we hear the Season 4 premiere episode will film in Kansas (likely Kansas City) before Ted Lasso heads back to the UK. >>>New Castings On The Way |
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Barry Jenkins' New 'Order' - Oscar winner Barry Jenkins has found his next big studio film and has landed one of Hollywood’s busiest A-listers to star in it. Sources tell Deadline that Universal has secured the hot package The Natural Order, with Jenkins on board to direct and Glen Powell attached to star. >>>Sci-Fi Thriller Don't Cry For Snow White - Rachel Zegler, star of Steven Spielberg’s screen version of West Side Story and the soon-to-be-released Disney live-action Snow White, will make her London theater debut as Eva Perón in a revival of the garlanded Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita, director Jamie Lloyd confirmed to Deadline today. The show will play at the fabled London Palladium for a limited 12-week summer season, with performances from June 14 through September 6. >>> Complex Negotiations
Kids Dig 'Minecraft' - Warner Bros and Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie is looking at a $60M+ U.S./Canada opening. The movie hit three-week NRG tracking Thursday. A Minecraft Movie has an unaided awareness of 13 — that’s the meter where those polled cite the movie as a want-to-see without being prompted by a pollster. That’s below The Super Mario Bros Movie‘s 20 but a notch higher than Pokémon Detective Pikachu, which opened to $54.3M in 2018. >>> Long Presales Window
Markle On Mic - Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is preparing to launch her latest podcast. Meghan is launching Confessions of a Female Founder with Lemonada Media. It comes a year after she struck a deal with the company behind Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus. >>>April 8 Premiere
Peter Bart Column - Mickey 17 will delight Bong Joon Ho-heads, but the rest of the moviegoing universe might need convincing. Will filmgoers rally behind space travelers who “hate dying” but keep courting death? >>>Raucous Ruffalo
AI Making News - Artificial intelligence is taking center stage in yet another set of union negotiations as the Writers Guild of America began talks this week with CBS News on a new collective bargaining agreement. The WGA represents 270 news writers, producers, promotions writer-producers, editors, graphic artists, and news desk associates at CBS News — all of whom it says are imminently threatened by the lack of journalistic protections against AI. >>>Safeguard Journalism
First Look Deal - Rebelle Media, founded and run by former CAA film finance and sales agent Laura Lewis, is getting into business with MGM Television. The company has signed a first-look deal with the studio and set its first project, a series adaptation of The Sicilian Inheritance, Jo Piazza‘s bestselling novel of the same name. >>>Destination Murder Mystery
In Brief - Kate Beckinsale underway on Lioness... NBC gives pilot order to Stumble... Netflix‘s The Residence submits as a comedy for awards season... Gold Tree secures $1 billion in financing |
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Thursday night’s episode of CBS' Ghosts, aptly titled “St. Hetty’s Day,” reveals that the Gilded Age aristocrat’s power is tied directly to her Irish ancestry. As it turns out, Hetty has quite a powerful ability, albeit only on one day per year. On St. Patrick’s Day, she can be seen by the living.
“I love that you don’t know just how powerful or not it is until the end of the episode,” Rebecca Wisocky, who plays Hetty, told Deadline. “I love that there’s a theme in the episode [about] the power of being seen, literally and figuratively. It’s, I think, one of the things that all of the ghosts are really craving is to be known, is to be recognized, to be seen all these years after they’ve been sitting in Purgatory. So that really resonated for me.” >>>Read The Interview |
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Chloë Grace Moretz has been set to star in serial-killer thriller The Edge Of Normal, the first English-language feature from director Carlota Pereda (Piggy).
Daniel Radcliffe has joined the cast of NBC’s untitled Tracy Morgan comedy pilot from Tina Fey and Robert Carlock and writer Sam Means.
Emmy winner Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) is attached to star as George Smiley in Legacy Of Spies, a TV series project based on John le Carré’s series of novels featuring the career intelligence officer character.
Showtime has cast David Dastmalchian (Oppenheimer) in Dexter: Resurrection in the guest starring role of “Gareth.” Production on the Dexter: New Blood followup series kicked off in January in New York.
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Netflix‘s popular romantic drama Virgin River has cast Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Cody Kearsley (Riverdale) in recurring roles for the upcoming seventh season, which has begun production.
Phoebe Dynevor is in negotiations to star opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming film, a supernatural romantic thriller based on an original story co-created by Shyamalan and global bestselling novelist Nicholas Sparks.
Industry has added four new cast members for the upcoming fourth season: Kiernan Shipka, Jack Farthing (Rain Dogs), Toheeb Jimoh (Ted Lasso) and Amy James-Kelly (Three Families). |
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💰 Newsmax paid $40 million to settle election systems company Smartmatic‘s defamation lawsuit last year, according a recent regulatory filing.
👀 Sean “Diddy” Combs now alleges that CNN altered, to his detriment, hotel security footage of him seemingly beating then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in 2016.
✊ Amid a string of recent show cancellations at the Kennedy Center, IATSE is attempting to shine a light on the negative impact such moves can have. “When productions walk away, it leaves more than just an empty stage — they leave behind critical opportunities for skilled middle-class workers," the union said in a statement. |
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$3B - Amount Comcast is paying to extend its Olympics rights deal through 2036 |
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 Reacher Season 3 is the most-watched returning season of television ever on Prime Video. In its first 19 days, the third season has amassed 54.6M global viewers.
🔻 U.S. stocks fell again Thursday with the S&P 500 officially entering “correction” territory. |
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Obituaries
🕯️ John Feinstein, a sportswriter and bestselling author of dozens of sports-themed books including A Season on the Brink and A Good Walk Spoiled, died Thursday. He was 69. 🕯️ Douglas Kiker, a contestant on Season 18 of American Idol, who brought judge Katy Perry to tears over his rendition of Rascal Flatts’ “Bless The Broken Road”, died Monday, March 10. He was 32. 🕯️ 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries |
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On the Radar
Fri - Black Bag opens; ACE Eddie Awards
Sun - Othello opens on Broadway
Mon - St. Patrick's Day
Wed - Hakeem Jeffries' L.A. fundraiser
Thu - Disney Shareholder Meeting |
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White Night - Ellen Pompeo arrives at the premiere Of Hulu's Good American Family at DGA. |
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