‘Ted Lasso’ wants you to believe all over again

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Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

Ted Lasso has returned! Each episode officially drops on Apple TV on Wednesdays at 2/3 a.m. CST/EST, but it will often show up unofficially on Tuesdays at 8/9 p.m. Here’s what to remember from season three. These are your Lady Greyhounds. Don’t be looking for these characters, though.

And here is a sampling of the reviews:

The Guardian: For all its irritatingly ersatz qualities, the appeal of Ted Lasso is as clear as ever: the signposted comic beats, the predictable gestures towards kindness and reconciliation, the bright colours, the clean lines. A sense of quality entertainment still hangs about the whole well-oiled endeavour.

Variety: … if the first three seasons of “Ted Lasso” are effectively one (overlong, especially toward the end) sports movie, then Season 4 is its perfectly routine sequel. And in a genre filled with redemptive second chances, “Ted Lasso” could use one of its own.

The Hollywood Reporter: Unimpeachably well-intentioned but frustratingly hollow, the long-delayed new season mostly serves to confirm that the Richmond way may have run its course.

TV Line: As it stands, “Ted Lasso” Season 4 is already a marked improvement over Season 3. And if it continues to recapture even some of the magic of the show’s first two seasons? Well, that’d just be barbecue sauce.

And congratulations to Juno Temple and Michal Szymanski! They met on the set of Ted Lasso, season two!

I had no idea this is how Jason Sudeikis moved from the writers’ room to the cast of Saturday Night Live, but it checks out.

Madeleine Carlisle, daughter of Stephen Colbert, is the most recent producer to resign from 60 Minutes. Their family is DONE with CBS.

If you have a normal life and aren’t on social media 24/7, you might not know the host of today’s new Discovery series, How to Catch a Dirtbag, so here’s a little primer on Michael McWhorter, aka “TizzyEnt.”

This is a solid argument that Netflix’s bingeing model is working entirely as it should.

There will be a New Girl reunion of sorts, just not the kind Max Greenfield has been teasing.

Whoopi Goldberg out here bragging about her View paycheck.

Bowen Yang is your next Mary Todd Lincoln, and all I have to say is: PERFECTION.

Disney is considering creating its own FAST channel because not doing so in this economy is just leaving money on the table.

Speaking of advertising, Disney has sold all of its Super Bowl ad time and the regular season hasn’t even started yet.

The Paramount/Warner Bros merge trial won’t take place until March, which is much closer to the April trial date that the states wanted than the fall date that Paramount wanted. TOO BAD.

So, over on General Hospital, they brought back a popular character: Ethan, son of Luke Spencer, played by the actor who originated the role, Nathan Dean. Dean had made it clear to the writers that he would only be available for a few months, and though they wanted to have him for two or three years, they agreed to take what they could get. Perfectly predictably, his character was written off this week. Which, fine. So please explain to me why this past week, the character’s final week, Ethan was played by some other actor who not only didn’t resemble Nathan Dean, he didn’t have his Australian accent, either. How did they get the timing of all of this so wrong?

It’s going to be a long while before Late Night with Seth Meyers returns. To tide you over, the show has put together some “A Closer Look” compilations over on YouTube.

Congratulations, Emily O’Brien and Ken Barnett!

Congratulations, Annabelle Wallis and Sebastian Stan!

I hope Perez Hilton gets the help he needs and is better soon.

In Development

  • The Voice: Celebrity has been ordered at NBC. Keke Palmer will host. The celebrity contestants will be announced at a later date.
  • Ascent, a thriller series starring Viola Davis, has been ordered at Paramount+.
  • LOL: Last One Laughing, a U.S. edition, has been greenlit at Prime Video.
  • Deadlocked, an action film starring Jamie Foxx, has landed at Amazon MGM.

Casting News

Mark Your Calendars

  • Colin From Accounts will return on Paramount+ on September 10.
  • ER: Caught on Camera will debut on TLC on August 19.
  • Honest Renovations will return on Roku on August 14.
  • The Shards: Official Podcast debuts on Hulu today.
  • The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn will premiere on Disney+ and Hulu on August 14.
  • Here the Whole Time will premiere on Netflix on August 19.

R.I.P.

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Ted Lasso: Ted is back in the U.K., and now it’s the ladies’ turn on the field. Season four premiere. Apple TV

The Shards: Richard Gere’s son and Cindy Crawford’s daughter star in this Ryan Murphy adaptation of a Bret Easton Ellis novel and all of that is perfect and terrible and this will also be terrible. But great. BUT TERRIBLE. Series premiere. FX

Sterling Point: A 17-year-old inherits an island in Canada where she makes new friends and uncovers family secrets, and I just don’t understand why I never inherit islands. Series premiere.  Prime Video

The Challenge: Cutthroat: So, there was some controversy in which Paramount took down this trailer from YouTube last week, and the contestants were freaking out that the show wasn’t going to air? But as of this writing on Saturday, the trailer appears to still be up, and I assume it will still premiere today. Season premiere. Paramount+

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Part two premiere. Netflix

Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy: It’s like Super Size Me, except that he only eats fried chicken for a month. Premiere. Netflix

Let’s Marry Harry: I’m not sure why anyone would want to marry this ding-dong, but sure. Series premiere. Netflix

How to Catch a Dirtbag: Social media star “Tizzy Ent” uses the rowd-sourcing powers of the internet to track down racists, misogynists, and other assholes to receive the public shaming they deserve, and now they’ve given him a whole TV show. Good. Series premiere. 9 p.m., Discovery Channel

Late Night:

  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Elliot Page, Bobby Flay, the Red Clay Strays
  • Watch What Happens Live: Brittany Cartwright, Riley Burruss

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