Can't get enough of 'Ted Lasso' and eager for more? A new ep is up now.

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What you need to know

  • There's a new episode of "Ted Lasso" to enjoy.
  • New episodes arrive every Friday.
  • There's already a second season lined up, too.

It's slim pickings in terms of new episodes of shows landing on Apple TV+ this week, but none of that matters – there's a new episode of "Ted Lasso" and that's all you need to know.

Episode five of "Ted Lasso" is now available for all Apple TV+ subscribers to settle into, and it sounds like it could be a biggie.

With his wife and son visiting from America, Ted makes drastic changes to the lineup during a critical match."

Episode six will be ready to go next week, too.

Jason Sudeikis plays Ted Lasso, a small-time college football coach from Kansas hired to coach a professional soccer team in England, despite having no experience coaching soccer. In addition to starring, Sudeikis serves as executive producer, alongside Bill Lawrence ("Scrubs") via his Doozer Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television, a division of NBCUniversal Content. Doozer's Jeff Ingold also serves as an executive producer with Liza Katzer as co-executive producer. The series was developed by Sudeikis, Lawrence, Joe Kelly and Brendan Hunt, and is based on the pre-existing format and characters from NBC Sports.

Fans of the show will also be pleased to know that it has already been picked up for a second season.

Oliver Haslam
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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.