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- The “Football is Life” comedy “Ted Lasso” just won the World Cup on television when it comes to football.
The shameless show for a good mood (motto: “Kindness Makes Back”) was nominated for a record 20 Emmys – one more than the incredibly fun “Glee” in 2010 – and won seven.
Lasso, who will soon be ending his second season on Apple TV+, Emmy Ted Lasso picked up the award for Outstanding Comedy Series and won other awards for the star. Co-creator, and executive producer Jason Sudeikis from Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series and Hannah Waddingham and Brett Goldstein for supporting his role.
In the preliminary ceremony last weekend, Emmy Ted Lasso won three Emmys for casting, mixing, and editing.
“This show is for my family, mentors and teachers, teammates. And I wouldn’t be here without these three things in my life,” said Sudeikis, accepting his best actor award at the Emmys on Sunday. “I am as good as you make me visible.
It means to be the world is a mirror of what you give me. Unfortunately, that’s not the case in our era of fragmented monthly paid streaming. Where Apple has to compete for viewership and time dollars with HBO Max and Hulu, Netflix, and many other rivals.
So if you’ve never seen Lasso and Amy’s brilliance before, curious, we’re here for a spoiler-free peek.
Your driver, while an avid fan of the fierce TV ticket described by HBO’s “Heritage,” is also a former college football gamer. With a penchant for the odd rallies organized by last year’s Emmy Favorite “Schitt’s Creek” illustrated. Kleenex pass. Help.
How did it start?
Ted Lasso was born of an elegantly written joke. In 2013, Sudeikis, who finished a successful decade on Saturday Night Live. Created a video for NBC Sports to help the network promote new coverage of English Premier League football matches.
Dressed in Sudeikis, the proud Kansan is like Ted Lasso, a Midwestern soccer coach who has just been recruited to run the real Tottenham Hotspur club. Gags wrote it himself. The football game could end in a relationship, Lasso said. If it happened in American football, “this could be cited in Revelation as the cause of the apocalypse.”
After his second ESPN Lasso promotion went viral in 2014, the actor, encouraged by his then-wife, British actress and director Olivia Wilde. And his longtime friend and current co-star, Brendan, came up with the idea for a series based on the Lasso. Hunt. The tweak show debuted in August 2020, a welcome antidote to the looming pandemic.
Who are the players?
Sudeikis and coach Hunt have taken on a fictional English team called AFC Richmond, whose recently divorced owner Rebecca Welton (Waddingham) is secretly seeking Lasso’s alleged inability to torpedo the team’s football back to their former swell. But guess again.