If the Ted Lasso Season 4 finale left you with that warm, slightly hollow feeling, welcome to the club. Few shows manage to be this kind without turning syrupy, and once AFC Richmond’s women’s team has played its last match, the withdrawal is real. I went looking for series that scratch the same itch, whether that’s the found-family workplace, the sports underdogs, or just a comedy with a big, bruised heart. Here are 11 TV Shows Like Ted Lasso, worth adding to your watchlist.
1. Shrinking
Genre: Comedy Drama | Year: 2023–present | Cast: Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams, Christa Miller, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie | Where to Watch: Apple TV
If you only pick one from this list, make it this one. Shrinking comes from Ted Lasso creator Bill Lawrence, with Brett Goldstein (our Roy Kent) and Jason Segel as co-creators, so the DNA is practically identical. Segel plays a grieving therapist who starts breaking the rules and telling his clients exactly what he thinks, while Harrison Ford turns out to be a deadpan comedy machine as his cranky boss. It has the same trick Ted Lasso pulls off: jokes on the surface, grief right underneath. Season 3 aired earlier this year, and Apple has already renewed it for a fourth.
2. Abbott Elementary
Genre: Mockumentary Sitcom | Year: 2021–present | Cast: Quinta Brunson, Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Chris Perfetti, Lisa Ann Walter, William Stanford Davis, Sheryl Lee Ralph | Where to Watch: ABC, Hulu
Another show about people who refuse to give up on a place everyone else has written off. Quinta Brunson’s Emmy-winning comedy follows a group of passionate teachers (and one slightly tone-deaf principal) at an underfunded Philadelphia public school. The optimism is the hook, and like Ted, Janine believes in her coworkers harder than they believe in themselves. Season 5 even added Luke Tennie from Shrinking, and a sixth season has been ordered for the 2026-27 TV year.
3. Parks and Recreation
Genre: Mockumentary Sitcom | Year: 2009–2015 | Cast: Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott | Where to Watch: Peacock
Leslie Knope is basically Ted Lasso with a binder. Amy Poehler plays a relentlessly upbeat parks department official in the small Indiana town of Pawnee, and the show is built on the idea that sincerity and hard work can make a whole community better. Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, it runs 126 episodes across seven seasons, which is a very comfortable amount of time to move in with a group of characters.
4. Scrubs
Genre: Medical Comedy | Year: 2001–2010, revival 2026 | Cast: Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes, John C. McGinley | Where to Watch: Hulu (original series and the 2026 revival)
Bill Lawrence again, and honestly you can trace a straight line from Sacred Heart Hospital to AFC Richmond. Scrubs mixes fantasy-sequence silliness with episodes that genuinely wreck you, and it’s built around the friendship between J.D. and Turk the same way Ted Lasso is built around friendships in a locker room. The revival premiered on ABC in February 2026 with most of the original cast back, and it has been renewed for another season.
5. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Genre: Workplace Sitcom | Year: 2013–2021 | Cast: Andy Samberg, Andre Braugher, Terry Crews, Melissa Fumero, Stephanie Beatriz, Joe Lo Truglio | Where to Watch: Peacock
A police precinct might not sound like the cozy choice, but Brooklyn Nine-Nine runs on the same engine: a team of oddballs who protect each other fiercely. There’s no cynicism here. Jake and Holt’s odd-couple dynamic has plenty of the mentor-and-student warmth you got from Ted and Roy, and Schur’s writers know exactly when to let a joke breathe and when to let a moment land. All seven seasons are an easy binge.
6. The Good Place
Genre: Fantasy Comedy | Year: 2016–2020 | Cast: Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, D’Arcy Carden, Manny Jacinto | Where to Watch: Hulu
This one is more of a philosophical curveball, but the core question will sound familiar: can a flawed person actually become a better one? Eleanor wakes up in the afterlife convinced there’s been a mistake, and the show uses that setup to explore kindness, ethics and second chances without ever feeling preachy. It ran four seasons and 53 episodes, so the story is tight, and it landed on Hulu in February 2026 for anyone who missed it the first time.
7. Schitt’s Creek
Genre: Comedy | Year: 2015–2020 | Cast: Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy | Where to Watch: Hulu
A wealthy family loses everything and ends up in a small town they once bought as a joke. The early episodes lean on the snobbery, but the show slowly turns into one of the most generous comedies ever made. The Roses don’t just find a home, they learn how to love each other out loud. It won nine Emmys across six seasons, and that gentle character growth is the closest thing to Richmond’s slow-burn redemption arcs.
8. A Man on the Inside
Genre: Comedy Mystery | Year: 2024–present | Cast: Ted Danson, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Stephanie Beatriz, Lilah Richcreek Estrada, Mary Steenburgen, David Strathairn | Where to Watch: Netflix
Michael Schur’s Netflix series puts Ted Danson in the role of a widower who goes undercover in a retirement community to help a private investigator, loosely inspired by the documentary The Mole Agent. The mystery is fun, but the real draw is how much heart it packs into its quieter scenes about loneliness, friendship and being useful again. If you liked how Ted Lasso treated grief and aging with a light touch, this is a gentle, funny follow-up. Season 2 arrived in November 2025.
9. Welcome to Wrexham
Genre: Sports Docuseries | Year: 2022–present | Cast: Rob McElhenney, Ryan Reynolds | Where to Watch: FX, Hulu
The real-life version of the Ted Lasso premise, only with actual stakes. Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds bought Wrexham AFC, a fifth-tier Welsh club, in 2020, and this Emmy-winning docuseries follows the club and the working-class city behind it as they climb the English football pyramid. It has the same pull as Lasso: a community, an underdog, and a lot of people who just want something to believe in. Plenty of crying, and it’s all real.
10. A League of Their Own
Genre: Sports Comedy Drama | Year: 2022 | Cast: Abbi Jacobson, D’Arcy Carden, Chanté Adams, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Roberta Colindrez | Where to Watch: Prime Video
Since Season 4 put Ted in charge of a women’s team, this one is a natural fit. Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham reimagine the 1992 movie as an eight-episode series about the women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s, with room for the stories the film never told about race and sexuality. It was canceled after one season, which still stings, but those eight episodes are warm, funny and worth your time.
11. Friday Night Lights
Genre: Sports Drama | Year: 2006–2011 | Cast: Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Taylor Kitsch, Minka Kelly, Scott Porter | Where to Watch: Peacock
Coach Taylor is the drama-world cousin of Coach Lasso. Both lead with character over wins, and both understand that coaching is mostly about being there for people at their worst moments. This one swaps the comedy for a more grounded, emotional look at a Texas high school football town, but the lesson is the same: clear eyes, full hearts. It ran five seasons, so you have plenty of Friday nights ahead.
