Seth MacFarlane Says There’s ‘No Plan’ for Season Three of ‘Ted’
Seth MacFarlane recently mentioned it DeWrap that there is “no plan” to make a third season of his “Ted” prequel series because production costs are too high.
“What I kept hearing [from Peacock and Universal] was, ‘Listen, the show is very expensive to produce and there’s no way to do it at a lower cost.’ So I said, ‘Okay, I hear you loud and clear.’ So I wrote the last scene with Max [Burkholder] walking into a gym and supposedly coming out as Mark Wahlberg in the first ‘Ted’ movie,” MacFarlane explained. [showrunners] Brad Walsh and Paul Corrigan and I kind of painted ourselves into a corner. Is there a way to do it? There is always a way to do something. But at this point, some narrative acrobatics may be needed. There is currently no plan that I have heard of to make Season 3.”
TheWrap reports that Peacock has not yet decided whether “Ted” will get a third season. Universal did not immediately respond Variety‘s request for comment.
Based on the 2012 comedy film, the TV series ‘Ted’ follows the teenage version of Mark Wahlberg’s John as he navigates adolescence with the help of his foul-mouthed teddy bear. Max Burkholder stars as young John and MacFarlane once again voices Ted. Other cast members include Giorgia Whigham, Alanna Ulbach, Scott Grimes and Ara Hollyday.
While the live-action “Ted” series may be coming to an end, Peacock unveiled an animated series in May 2025, with Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried and Jessica Barth reprising their roles from the original film.
MacFarlane made sure to credit his production team and camera crew for making the first two seasons of “Ted.” He said the amount of CGI needed was comparable to “making an ‘Avengers’ movie every 22 minutes.”
“It’s really good that we had two ‘Ted’ films under our belt because the workload is something that is insurmountable on a weekly basis. And it’s a tribute 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 amazing crew in Melbourne, Australia, at Framestore, said this could be achieved on a weekly basis,” said MacFarlane. “It’s like making an ‘Avengers’ movie every 22 minutes with the amount of CGI needed not just to animate the bear, but to play the bear. It’s something we wouldn’t have been able to do if we hadn’t had the training to make two films ten years earlier.
