{"id":526048,"date":"2026-03-08T04:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526048\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T04:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:37:10","slug":"macfarlane-no-plans-for-ted-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526048\/","title":{"rendered":"MacFarlane: ‘No Plans’ For “Ted” Season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Peacock<\/p>\n

A second season of Peacock\u2019s \u201cTed\u201d hit the streamer this week, but we probably won\u2019t get a third according to series creator and voice star Seth MacFarlane.<\/p>\n

The series, a prequel to the \u201cTed\u201d comedy films, sees MacFarlane reprising his role of the foul-mouthed teddy bear. The character is a CG creation that takes up a lot of screen time in an otherwise real-world comedy series.<\/p>\n

That means it costs money to realise him on screen \u2013 the more screen time he has, the more it costs. That has now become an issue, says MacFarlane in a recent interview with The Wrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He tells the outlet that production costs are possibly too high to continue, which is why the last episode of the season sees the young John entering a gym and becoming the Mark Wahlberg version of his character in the films:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I kept hearing [from Peacock and Universal] was, \u2018Listen, the show is really expensive to produce and there\u2019s no way to do it at a lower cost.\u2019 So I said, \u2018All right, I hear you loud and clear.\u2019 So I wrote the last scene with Max [Burkholder] walking into a gym, presumably coming out as Mark Wahlberg in the first \u2018Ted\u2019 film.<\/p>\n

So [showrunners] Brad Walsh and Paul Corrigan and I kind of painted ourselves into a corner. Is there a way to do it? There\u2019s always a way to do anything. But at the moment, it might take some narrative acrobatics. There\u2019s no plan that I\u2019ve heard of at the moment to do Season 3.\u201d<\/p>\n

He goes on to say the amount of CG required is like \u201cdoing an \u2018Avengers\u2019 movie every 22 minutes.\u201d The trade says Peacock has not made a formal decision on whether \u201cTed\u201d will receive a third season at present.<\/p>\n

The issue isn\u2019t unexpected. Paramount hit a similar problem with its \u201cKnuckles\u201d TV series; the \u201cSonic\u201d spin-off became infamous for the limited amount of screentime for its core character, who appeared in 75 minutes of the show\u2019s 168-minute total length.<\/p>\n

An animated \u201cTed\u201d series was unveiled by Peacock in May 2025 with Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried and Jessica Barth reprising their roles from the original film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peacock A second season of Peacock\u2019s \u201cTed\u201d hit the streamer this week, but we probably won\u2019t get a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,427],"class_list":["post-526048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}