We have some bad news for all the Ted fans out there. It seems that creator Seth MacFarlane is not planning to continue Peacock’s Ted prequel series, based on the 2012 and 2015 films of the same name.
Making the recently released 2nd season its finale.
The series centers around John (Max Burkholder) who wishes his titular stuffed bear (voiced by MacFarlane) to life. The duo try to navigate high school in Framingham, Massachusetts. Before growing up and becoming the adult version of John, played by Mark Wahlberg in the films.
Ted Season 3?
MacFarlane says he has “no plan” for a 3rd season citing “really expensive” production costs. Which is fair given an entire main character is CGI.
“What I kept hearing [from Peacock and Universal] was, ‘Listen, the show is really expensive to produce and there’s no way to do it at a lower cost,’” he told TheWrap.
“So [showrunners] Brad Walsh and Paul Corrigan and I kind of painted ourselves into a corner,” MacFarlane says about the ending of season 2. “Is there a way to do it? There’s always a way to do anything. But at the moment, it might take some narrative acrobatics. There’s no plan that I’ve heard of at the moment to do Season 3.”
“It’s very good that we had two Ted films under our belt, because the workload is something that, on a weekly basis, is just insurmountable,” he explains. “And it’s 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’s like you’re 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’s something we couldn’t have done if we had not had the education of doing two films 10 years earlier.”
Despite this news, the animated Ted sequel series still seems to be happening at Peacock.
