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Ted Lasso Season 4 Release Schedule and What to Watch Between
By Jordan A. · · 5 min read
Two episodes in, and the surprise of Ted Lasso season 4 isn't that it exists. It's that it moved. Ted is coaching a second-division women's team, Richmond is a different building, and the show that ended three years ago with a tidy bow has gone and untied it.
If you're here because it's Tuesday night and you want to know when episode 3 lands, the answer is Wednesday. Same as every week until October 7. Here's the whole calendar, plus what to do with the six days in between.
The dates, straight up
Season 4 premiered Wednesday, August 5, 2026 on Apple TV. There are 10 episodes. They release one per week, every Wednesday, and the finale is Wednesday, October 7. No mid-season break, no two-episode drops after the premiere week, no surprise Friday releases. Deadline has the rollout confirmed the same way.
Episodes go live overnight, so if you wake up Wednesday and it isn't there yet, refresh once and blame your app cache.
The full weekly calendar
Episode 1, "Home," landed August 5. Episode 2, "Curiouser and Curiouser!," landed August 12. Episode 3, "Richmond's Got Talent," arrives August 19, and episode 4, "Greyhound's Day Off," follows on August 26.
From there it's September 2, September 9, September 16, September 23 and September 30 for episodes 5 through 9, with episode 10 closing the season on October 7. Ten Wednesdays. Put the last one in your calendar now, because a Ted Lasso finale is not a thing you want spoiled by a group chat.
The premise change people keep skipping past
This is the part worth slowing down on. Season 4 sends Ted back to Richmond to coach a second-division women's football team. Not the men's side he left. Not a victory lap with the same squad and the same jokes.
That matters because season 3 solved Ted's problem. He went home. He got better. A revival that put him back on the same touchline would have been a rerun with a bigger budget. Handing him a roster he doesn't know, in a league that doesn't care about his highlight reel, gives the show an actual engine again. Whether it earns the ending is a question for October. So far it's earning the setup.
Who's back
Jason Sudeikis is Ted, obviously. Hannah Waddingham returns as Rebecca, Juno Temple as Keeley, Brett Goldstein as Roy Kent, Brendan Hunt as Coach Beard and Jeremy Swift as Higgins. The core six are intact, which is more than most revivals manage.
The new squad is where the show is spending its fresh ink, and that's the right call. If you want a reminder of how fast this cast can make you care about a stranger, rewatch how quickly Dani Rojas went from a name to a whole personality.
What to rewatch on the days you're waiting
Weekly release does one nice thing for you: it makes rewatching feel productive instead of nostalgic. If you've got 45 minutes on a Saturday, go back to season 1 episode 8, "The Diamond Dogs," and watch the darts scene again. "Be curious, not judgmental" is the thesis of the entire series delivered while a man throws a bullseye. It plays completely differently now that Ted is the outsider being underestimated.
Season 2's "Beard After Hours" is the other one to revisit. It's the weirdest episode the show ever made, it barely features Ted, and it's the clearest proof that this writers' room can build something strange when it wants to. If you're new to the show entirely or you finished it years ago and want more like it, we broke down the closest matches in what to watch after Ted Lasso.
Feel-good shows that fill the same slot
The Ted-shaped hole isn't really about football. It's about watching kind people be competent at something. Shrinking scratches it hardest, and Apple keeps stacking the deck there. Our full rundown of the platform's current lineup lives in the best Apple TV shows of 2026, and if you want the wider net, the best comedy shows of 2026 covers everything else worth a Wednesday.
One more on the calendar: Brothers, with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, debuts September 23. That lands squarely in the back half of the Lasso run, which means five straight Wednesdays with two new Apple comedies waiting.
Is the subscription worth it for one show?
Honest answer: for one show, probably not. For this fall, probably yes. Apple's newsroom announced a record 89 Emmy nominations in July, though some trade tallies counted 87. Either number puts a lot of watchable television behind one login, and the ceremony on September 14 will tell you which of it actually landed.
If money is the issue, the sensible move is to time your month. Subscribe in late September, watch the last three Lasso episodes plus the finale, catch up on Brothers, then decide.
Will there be a season 5?
Nothing has been announced. Season 3 was framed as an ending and then wasn't, so treat any confident claim you read about season 5 as a guess. The more useful question is whether season 4 sticks its landing on October 7. If it does, Apple will want more. If it doesn't, this becomes the cautionary tale people cite for the next decade of revivals.
Between now and the finale you've got nine free Wednesdays and six empty nights a week. Tell us two shows you love and we'll hand you a short list instead of a scroll. Start with TV recommendations, or keep it in your pocket with the iPhone app.
Topics covered: ted lasso, apple tv plus, release schedule, season 4, weekly episodes
About the author
Jordan A., Founder, BingeNext
Jordan A. is the founder of BingeNext and writes every guide on this site. He built the recommendation engine after one too many nights lost to the streaming menu, and he still tests every pick the hard way: by watching it.