Ted Lasso’s Nick Mohammed may have just given away when season four will start filming

Has Ted Lasso cast member Nick Mohammed just given away when a potential fourth season will start filming?

Mohammed took to social media to announce he had to move the dates for a bunch of his stand-up shows in the UK due to filming commitments he couldn’t move for “love or money”.

In character as “Mr Swallow”, his onstage comedic alter-ego, Mohammed then famed the flames of speculation when he said, “I cannot say what that filming is, but it will be announced shortly, in the meantime.

“I would really appreciate if people just didn’t speculate as what they think it might be. The last thing I want is for people to be going mad.”

While he’s saying that, he’s also waving about a “BELIEVE” sign in front of the camera. As Ted Lasso fans (and even non-fans) know, the yellow and blue “BELIEVE” sign is intrinsically tied to the series as a symbol of its philosophy of optimism and kindness.

The original dates of Mohammed’s rescheduled shows were from April 30 until May 11. He will resume his touring schedule on May 13, which suggests that Ted Lasso will be filming in the northern hemisphere spring – or at least Mohammed’s scenes will be.

A fourth season has not yet been officially confirmed but there have been lots of movement behind the scenes.

In August, the studio, Warner Bros Television, reportedly picked up a fourth season option for actors Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein and Jeremy Swift, who had been contracted through the UK actor’s union, Equity.

That same month, Jason Sudeikis, Brendan Hunt and Juno Temple were reportedly in negotiations to reprise their roles.

Ted Lasso was designed to be a three-season story arc, which wrapped up in early 2023. While the series ended on a point with several potential stories including the establishment of a women’s football team at Richmond, there were no promises it would return, despite its popularity and critical acclaim.

Co-creator Bill Lawrence has always maintained Ted Lasso’s future was in Sudeikis’s hands.

In October, Lawrence said, “Jason Sudeikis is the voice, heart, driving factor behind the show, not only professionally, but on a personal level. That’s the dude who life gets upended and who would be making the biggest sacrifices.

“The only sure bet in Hollywood is that nobody involved with Ted Lasso will ever, ever speak about it until Jason makes his decision who he wants to talk to and what he wants to tell.”

Ted Lasso originated out of a 2013 NBC Sports ad in which Sudeikis played a clueless American gridiron football coach who is thrown into managing an English Premier League team.

The character was retooled to be less of an American blowhard when it made the jump to his own series.

It premiered in August 2020 in the middle of the covid pandemic and Ted Lasso’s sunny disposition, can-do attitude and commitment to decency was perfectly suited to a bruised audience living through extraordinary times.

Despite the show being named after one man, it was an ensemble comedy and characters such as Waddingham’s team owner Rebecca Welton, Goldstein’s veteran player Roy Kent were all developed and had their own character arcs.

Mohammed played Nate Shelley, who started off as an overlooked kit man whose strategic nous saw him promoted to assistant coach before his heel turn eventually as a rival.

Since Ted Lasso, Sudeikis has been laying low – he voiced a character in children’s movie Hitpig and also had a voice role in the unrelated TV animation Hit Monkey.