{"id":33775,"date":"2026-03-07T23:14:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=33775"},"modified":"2026-03-07T23:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:14:04","slug":"seth-macfarlane-says-there-is-no-plan-for-ted-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=33775","title":{"rendered":"Seth MacFarlane Says There Is \u2018No Plan\u2019 For \u2018Ted\u2019 Season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>\u00a9<\/b>Courtesy of Peacock<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This week, the streaming service released a second season of Peacock&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=Seth+MacFarlane\"><strong>Ted<\/strong><\/a>,&#8221; but <a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=Seth+MacFarlane\">Seth MacFarlane<\/a>, the series creator and voice actor, says there won&#8217;t be a third season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">MacFarlane is reuniting with the role of the foul-mouthed teddy bear in the series, a prequel to the &#8216;<strong>Ted<\/strong>&#8216; comedy films. The more screen time he has, the more expensive it is to show him on screen. Showing him on screen costs money &#8211; the more screen time he has, the more expensive it is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He revealed 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=Mark+Wahlberg\">Mark Wahlberg<\/a> version of his character in the films: <i>\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 &#8220;<strong>Ted<\/strong>&#8221; film.<\/i><\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>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<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He also told that the amount of CG required is like \u201cdoing an \u2018Avengers\u2019 movie every 22 minutes.\u201d So far, Peacock has not made a formal decision on whether \u201c<strong>Ted<\/strong>\u201d will receive a third season at present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">An animated version of &#8220;<strong>Ted<\/strong>\u201d series was released by Peacock in May 2025 with Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried and Jessica Barth reprising their roles from the original film.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Courtesy of Peacock This week, the streaming service released a second season of Peacock&#8217;s &#8220;Ted,&#8221; but Seth MacFarlane, the series creator and voice actor, says there won&#8217;t be a third season. MacFarlane is reuniting with the role of the foul-mouthed teddy bear in the series, a prequel to the &#8216;Ted&#8216; comedy films. 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