{"id":372237,"date":"2026-03-07T05:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/372237\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T05:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:41:09","slug":"seth-macfarlane-says-theres-no-plan-to-do-ted-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/372237\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth MacFarlane Says There’s ‘No Plan’ to Do Ted Season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: This story contains spoilers for \u201cTed\u201d Season 2.<\/p>\n

Ted and John Bennett\u2019s wild teenage adventures may have reached its end, as creator Seth MacFarlane says there is \u201cno plan\u201d for a third season of the Peacock prequel series.<\/p>\n

While \u201cTed\u201d Season 1 became Peacock\u2019s most-viewed title following its debut<\/a>, MacFarlane emphasized that the show is expensive to produce. Some estimates have pegged the prequel series\u2019 budget between $8 million and $10 million per episode.<\/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. 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 told TheWrap. \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

Peacock has not yet made a decision on whether the series will be renewed for a third season or canceled. A spokesperson for the streamer declined to comment.<\/p>\n

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MacFarlane praised the show\u2019s production and visual effects team for taking on the difficult task of bringing the titular foul-mouth teddy bear to life for two seasons with eight, half-hour episodes each. <\/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 he said. \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

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Seth MacFarlane says they used AI to make him look like Bill Clinton in ‘Ted’ S2 <\/p>\n

“It’s an interesting example of how AI can be used as a tool \u2026 We tried prosthetics, we tried traditional CGI, everything else just looked terrifying”<\/p>\n

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In addition to using CGI, \u201cTed\u201d Season 2 also uses AI in Episode 5, in which MacFarlane makes a cameo appearance as former president Bill Clinton, who makes a stop at a local Dunkin Donuts where John\u2019s father Matty (Scott Grimes) works. He said that the scene proved to be an \u201cinteresting study\u201d in the use of AI as a production tool after the team was unable to nail down Clinton\u2019s look using CGI.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had done my Bill Clinton impression on \u2018Family Guy\u2019 a number of times and there was some speculation in the writers\u2019 room where they said \u2018God, wouldn\u2019t it be funny to have him come in and have Matty meet him and have the two of them actually go at it? And it was a challenge to figure out how to do it,\u201d MacFarlane explained. \u201cWe tried makeup, we tried CGI, and eventually, it wound up being AI that saved us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHad we gone the traditional CGI route, which we did try, it was just terrifying to look at. It was just this monstrous face that was contorted like Doug McKenzie in \u2018Strange Brew.\u2019 So we used the AI method,\u201d MacFarlane continued. \u201cThe CGI was distracting from the jokes, you were focusing on the effect rather than the writing. We want people focused on the writing. So it was an interesting use and interesting glimpse into the future. It\u2019s like, here\u2019s AI used as a tool the same way that we use CGI or stop motion or any other tools to best bring our writing to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While the \u201cTed\u201d prequel series may or may not be coming to an end, MacFarlane and Peacock are continuing to expand the universe of the film franchise with a new animated series that picks up where \u201cTed 2\u201d left off. In addition to MacFarlane, the series relies on the vocal talents of Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried and Jessica Barth.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of times, on-camera stars do not translate well to voiceover because they don\u2019t have their fabulous faces to show off. But this group has really just thrilled all of us,\u201d MacFarlane said. \u201c[Mark Wahlberg] is great and he\u2019s so funny. With just two words out of his mouth you know that it\u2019s Mark and he knew how to elevate it just a little bit for the animation medium. He\u2019s a very shrewd guy who just always winds up being the savant that\u2019s two steps ahead of where you think he\u2019s going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

MacFarlane declined to share specific plot details, but praised Corrigan and Walsh for doing a \u201cknockout job\u201d executive producing the new installment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve, of course, come off \u2018Modern Family\u2019 with their pile of Emmys. So they were a good choice to do this,\u201d MacFarlane said. \u201cThey\u2019ve really delivered something that feels new and fresh and yet also feels like it\u2019s within the Ted universe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though it\u2019s unclear when the animated series will premiere, fans can hold themselves over by streaming both \u201cTed\u201d films and Season 1 and 2 of the prequel series on Peacock now.<\/p>\n

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