Sudeikis had portrayed Ted Lasso, a hapless American football coach brought to England to coach Tottenham as part of two promotional videos for NBC Sports in 2013 and 2014. In late 2019, Sudeikis co-wrote and starred in "Ted Lasso" about an American football coach that gets hired to coach an English football club. The series was released in August 2020 to a positive reception. It has earned him a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. At the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards, he was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.