{"id":318844,"date":"2026-03-08T07:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/318844\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T07:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:34:15","slug":"seth-macfarlane-issues-disappointing-update-on-ted-series-future-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/318844\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth MacFarlane issues disappointing update on Ted series\u2019 future"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seth MacFarlane says there is \u201cno plan\u201d to make a third season of his Ted prequel series<\/a> because production costs are too high.<\/p>\n

Ted follows an obnoxious teddy bear, voiced by MacFarlane, who was gifted sentience by a child\u2019s wish. The film partners the sleazy bear with a slacker played by Mark Wahlberg; Ted the series reimagines Wahlberg\u2019s foil as a misfit teenager in the 1990s<\/a>, played by The Purge\u2019s Max Burkholder.<\/p>\n

It returned for its second season on Peacock on March 5 to broadly positive reviews; however, it might be the last audiences see of this particular Ted iteration.<\/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 Ted film,\u201d MacFarlane explained. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo [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

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Max Burkholder plays John while Seth MacFarlane voices Ted in the live-action series on Peacock (Peacock)\"Seth<\/p>\n

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Seth MacFarlane is best known for creating and starring in \u2018Family Guy\u2019 (Getty)<\/p>\n

TheWrap reports that Peacock has not decided on whether Ted will receive a third season. Universal did not immediately respond to The Independent\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

While the live-action Ted series may be ending, Peacock announced an animated spin-off in May last year, with Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried and Jessica Barth set to reprise their roles from the original film.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the interview with The Wrap, MacFarlane praised his production team for pulling off the first two seasons of the show.<\/p>\n

He compared the amount of CGI required to \u201cdoing an Avengers movie every 22 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very good that we had two Ted films under our belt, because the workload is something that, on a weekly basis, is just insurmountable. And it\u2019s a testament to our production team, to our DP Jeff Mygatt, to our camera crew, to our visual effects crew and [visual effects supervisor] Blair Clark and our wonderful crew in Melbourne, Australia, at Framestore that this was able to be achieved on a weekly basis,\u201d MacFarlane said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like you\u2019re doing an Avengers movie every 22 minutes with the amount of CGI that it takes, not only to animate the bear, but to act the bear. It\u2019s something we couldn\u2019t have done if we had not had the education of doing two films 10 years earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ted season two is out now on Peacock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-318844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}