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'Ted Lasso' Boss Bill Lawrence on the Season 2 Finale and the Comedy's Endgame

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The Hollywood Reporter

News, Entertainment News, Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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This Weeks Top 5 Topics: SQUID GAME, with Rebecca Sun (3:47) Major League Baseball postseason has arrived (22:28) End of one of TV's best comedies (32:03) Showrunnner Spotlight: Bill Lawrence ('Ted Lasso') (37:26) Critics Corner (1:18:46) Welcome to TV's Top 5! Each episode features The Hollywood Reporter's West Coast TV Editor Lesley Goldberg and Chief TV Critic Daniel Fienberg breaking down the latest industry headlines. The podcast is broken into five segments, offering a deep-dive analysis of the latest TV news and a critical look at current and upcoming shows. Every episode of the weekly podcast includes an in-depth interview with one of the industry's most powerful showrunners or an up-and-coming new voice. Have an industry question you’d like to hear us address in a Mailbag segment? Email us at TVsTop5@THR.com. Stay tuned for future episodes and be sure to subscribe. Hosted by: Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg Produced by: Matthew Whitehurst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to episode 139 of TV's top five, the Hollywood Reporter's TV podcast.

1:06.0

I'm Leslie Goldberg, West Coast TV editor, and I'm joined by my friend, co-host, and

1:10.6

THR's chief TV critic, Dan Feinberg. Hi, Dan. What up, Leslie? Dodgers won, Red Sox won. Don't need to spoil a future segment, Leslie. I mean, geez. Or alternatively, maybe that was you warning people that there's a future segment coming up but

1:27.5

anyway we're not gonna we're gonna talk about baseball a little bit later with a little bit of

1:32.9

TV attached to it but not really so much TV that you'd notice yeah but more than that

1:39.3

we also have an amazing segment if you're a fan of Ted Lasso as we kind of teased on

1:43.6

Twitter earlier this week,

1:45.0

we have a postmortem pegged to the season two finale with co-creator and showrunner Bill Lawrence.

1:53.0

So if you haven't watched the Ted Lasso season two finale yet, this is your warning. The interview will contain spoilers.

1:59.0

This is your first warning. There will be several additional warnings because we are going to

2:03.9

definitely let you know that spoilers are coming. But it's only partially spoilery. Anyway,

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