You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: I really loved the show “Ted Lasso.” Although the latest season, the third, wasn’t its best, I would still like to see a return. Will there be a fourth season?

A: Yes, Apple TV will have new episodes beginning Aug. 5. According to the network, "In season four, Ted returns to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet: coaching a second division women’s football team. Throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learn to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would.” The show also promises the return of “Emmy Award winner Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Emmy Award winner Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt and Jeremy Swift, alongside new additions Tanya Reynolds, Jude Mack, Faye Marsay, Rex Hayes, Aisling Sharkey, Abbie Hern and Grant Feely.”

Q: When is “The Bear” coming back?

A: The award-winning comedy-drama will have its fifth and final season on FX and Hulu on June 25. All the final season’s eight episodes will arrive at that time. As Variety reported: "Season 5 picks up the morning after Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), Richie and Natalie (Abby Elliott) find out Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) has quit the food industry and is leaving the restaurant in their hands. Per the logline, ‘With no money, the threat of a sale and a torrential storm in their way, the new partners must band together with the rest of the team to achieve one last service, hoping they'll finally earn a Michelin star. Ultimately, they learn that what makes a restaurant ‘perfect' might not be the food, but the people.’ “

And, if you can’t wait until June, Hulu recently premiered “Gary,” a “flashback episode” of “The Bear” where Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) and Mikey (Jon Bernthal) “go on a work trip to Gary, Indiana” a few years before the opening of the Bear.

Q: What happened to the PBS four-part series called “Mother Love” starring Diana Rigg? I can’t seem to find it anywhere and would love to see it again.

A: “Mother Love,” with Diana Rigg as a murderous woman obsessed about her family, originally aired in 1989 in Britain and on PBS’s “Mystery!” series two years later (when, handily, Rigg was hosting “Mystery!”). I found it on the Daily Motion website, although the picture quality and sound are not great.

UPDATE: Some time back I mentioned that the NBC comedy “Stumble” was very much on the bubble about getting renewed for a second season. Since then, it’s been announced that the show is done. While the show had its admirers, Deadline.com reported that “the comedy could not find wide enough audience for NBC to bring it back.”

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