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04-19-2023, 09:38 PM
https://www.looper.com/1262359/importance-amsterdam-ted-lasso-history/
Ted Lasso went from Amsterdam to the States and back abroad again
The vague idea for Ted, a Midwestern coach who doesn't know the first thing about football abroad, came to Hunt and Sudeikis in 2001, but it wouldn't come into play for over a decade. In 2013, Sudeikis was tasked with creating commercials for NBC when the American network started airing Premiere League football games, and he and Hunt fleshed out the character of Ted, a mustachioed, well-meaning Kansas transplant who is endearingly clueless about the sport he's tasked with coaching.
Great television shows don't typically come from commercials (see: Geico's Cavemen series). "Ted Lasso" is, clearly, the exception to this apparent rule. Along with producer Joe Kelly and "Scrubs" creator Bill Lawrence, Hunt and Sudeikis launched the full adventures of the character in Apple TV+'s "Ted Lasso" in 2020, and it became a global phenomenon. A cheerful, heartwarming show imbued with very real emotion and stacked with an insanely talented cast, "Ted Lasso" quickly became one of the biggest shows on any streamer, racking up award nominations and winning several. The series won the 2021 Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, and Sudeikis has won several awards on his own alongside Goldstein and Waddingham.
This episode of "Ted Lasso" might have felt random for some fans, but for Hunt and Sudeikis, it was deeply personal. The third season of "Ted Lasso" drops new episodes on Wednesdays on Apple TV+.
Ted Lasso went from Amsterdam to the States and back abroad again
The vague idea for Ted, a Midwestern coach who doesn't know the first thing about football abroad, came to Hunt and Sudeikis in 2001, but it wouldn't come into play for over a decade. In 2013, Sudeikis was tasked with creating commercials for NBC when the American network started airing Premiere League football games, and he and Hunt fleshed out the character of Ted, a mustachioed, well-meaning Kansas transplant who is endearingly clueless about the sport he's tasked with coaching.
Great television shows don't typically come from commercials (see: Geico's Cavemen series). "Ted Lasso" is, clearly, the exception to this apparent rule. Along with producer Joe Kelly and "Scrubs" creator Bill Lawrence, Hunt and Sudeikis launched the full adventures of the character in Apple TV+'s "Ted Lasso" in 2020, and it became a global phenomenon. A cheerful, heartwarming show imbued with very real emotion and stacked with an insanely talented cast, "Ted Lasso" quickly became one of the biggest shows on any streamer, racking up award nominations and winning several. The series won the 2021 Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, and Sudeikis has won several awards on his own alongside Goldstein and Waddingham.
This episode of "Ted Lasso" might have felt random for some fans, but for Hunt and Sudeikis, it was deeply personal. The third season of "Ted Lasso" drops new episodes on Wednesdays on Apple TV+.