Apple TV+ has unveiled the primary trailer for brand new {golfing} comedy Stick and it appears like simply the factor to scratch the sports activities comedy itch whereas we await Ted Lasso season 4.
A coach pinning success on a decrease league star whereas going via a divorce, accompanied by a grumpy, beared sidekick? Stick sounds an terrible lot just like the streamer’s soccer sitcom, however Apple TV+ newest feel-good comedy switches issues up with a wholly totally different form of membership.
The new present sees Owen Wilson starring as “Pryce Cahill, an over-the-hill, ex-pro golfer whose profession was derailed prematurely 20 years in the past. After the collapse of his marriage and getting fired from his job at an Indiana sporting items retailer, Pryce hedges his bets, and future, solely on a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom named Santi (Peter Dager). Stick is a heartfelt, feel-good sports activities comedy a few discovered household and their relationships set throughout the world of golf because it has by no means been proven earlier than.”
As you’ll be able to see from the trailer beneath, the 10-episode collection appears to be one other instance of the kind of hilarious and heartfelt comedy top-of-the-line streaming providers have turn out to be masters of. With Wilson pitch excellent because the down and out Cahill searching for one final likelihood at glory, and with Peter Dager nailing the position of would-be {golfing} sensation Santi Wheeler, it’s like Ted Lasso teaching Happy Gilmore.
Also stepping out on to the inexperienced are Judy Greer as Pryce’s soon-to-be ex-wife Amber-Linn and Timothy Olyphant as his former rival whereas Marc Maron returns to the world of sports-com after Netflix’s GLOW, taking part in Cahill’s sardonic pal Mitts.
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The new trailer comes amid loads of thrilling updates for followers of Apple TV+ comedic output. While the streamer was as soon as thought-about the residence of massive finances sci-fi with the likes of Foundation and For All Mankind, it’s quietly been making a reputation for itself as the house of hilarious, emotional character pushed comedy.
While Rob McElhenney’s Mythic Quest was cancelled after 4 seasons, Stick arrives on the heels of hit film making satire The Studio, which has simply been renewed for a second season, whereas it’s additionally been confirmed that parenting sitcom Trying might be again for a fifth season. Meanwhile, the streamer’s OG comedy hit Ted Lasso can also be set to make a return.
Is Ted Lasso nonetheless returning?
While many assumed we’d mentioned goodbye to Jason Sudekis’ soccer coach on the shut of season three, again in March, Apple TV+ confirmed top-of-the-line Apple TV+ exhibits can be returning for a fourth outing. Sudeikis is confirmed to be again, alongside Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein and Jeremy Swift. The remainder of the forged are but to be introduced, however we’d think about we’ll see extra acquainted faces re-signed to AFC Richmond.
Plot particulars are skinny on the bottom for the time being, but it surely’s closely rumored that Ted will return to London to teach the Richmond girls’s workforce introduced within the season three finale. In the season 4 announcement, Sudeikis teased: “As all of us proceed to reside in a world the place so many elements have conditioned us to ‘look earlier than we leap,’ in season 4, the oldsters at AFC Richmond be taught to LEAP BEFORE THEY LOOK, discovering that wherever they land, it’s precisely the place they’re meant to be.” For extra on Ted’s comeback, you’ll be able to try all the pieces we all know to date concerning the return of the hit Apple TV+ present.
In the meantime, Stick appears like a present Ted Lasso followers are going to like, and should you’re lacking the antics on the soccer membership, properly this could go a good option to filling that gap.
