{"id":509853,"date":"2026-03-07T20:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/509853\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T20:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:09:08","slug":"seth-macfarlane-has-no-plan-to-make-ted-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/509853\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth MacFarlane Has “No Plan” To Make ‘Ted’ Season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt sounds like bad news bears for Ted<\/a> fans, as Seth MacFarlane<\/a> comments on the future of the Peacock<\/a> series beyond its sophomore season, now available to stream.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe creator and voice of the eponymous foul-mouth teddy bear admitted he has \u201cno plan\u201d for a Season 3 of the show, citing \u201creally expensive\u201d production cost of the prequel series of Ted (2012) and Ted 2 (2015).<\/p>\n

\n\t\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,’\u201d he told TheWrap<\/a>. \u201cSo 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<\/p>\n

\n\tMacFarlane added, \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

\n\tA source close to production says no decision has been made regarding a Season 3 renewal. However, an animated spinoff is coming to Peacock later this year.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Seth<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tSeth MacFarlane attends the \u2018Ted\u2019 Season 2 preview party on March 5, 2026 in New York, New York.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Nacion\/Variety<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the 2012 comedy feature film Ted and its 2015 sequel, Wahlberg starred as the adult version of John, who wished his stuffed bear to life as a child, embarking on some debaucherous adventures together. In the Ted series, Burkholder plays young John as he and Ted navigate high school and life with his family in Framingham, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

\n\t\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,\u201d explained MacFarlane. \u201cAnd 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. It\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It sounds like bad news bears for Ted fans, as Seth MacFarlane comments on the future of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,220,35375,173783,92],"class_list":["post-509853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-peacock","tag-seth-macfarlane","tag-ted","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}