Jason Sudeikis is heading back to the silver screen!
is headed back to TV for a new comedy series,alum will star as the eponymous Ted Lasso, who is described as"an idealistic all-American football coach hired to manage an English football club -- despite having no soccer coaching experience at all."
The show is based on a character Sudekis played in a series of NBC Sports comedy shorts in 2013, which were made to promote the fact that NBC Sports would be airing English Premier League soccer matches. Sudekis will reprise his role as the titular American football coach as well as co-executive produce the series and co-write the pilot alongside TV sitcom legend Bill Lawrence -- the creator of
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