‘It’s All on the Table’ — Seth MacFarlane Says Ted Season 3 or Movie Can Happen if Peacock Uses Its ‘Vast Amounts of Big Scrooge McDuck Money’

Seth MacFarlane said helium is consenting to marque Ted Season 3 oregon adjacent different movie, but he’s going to request Peacock’s “vast amounts of Big Scrooge McDuck money” to marque it happen.

The caput down Family Guy talked astir the aboriginal of his raunchy teddy carnivore drama franchise during a caller sheet astatine Deadline Contenders TV. He besides took the accidental to code the elephant successful the room: Why hasn’t Ted Season 3 been greenlit yet?

It’s astatine slightest a taxable MacFarlane has connected his mind. Although it sounds similar thing is successful the works yet, helium said the unit down the prequel task would beryllium consenting to instrumentality astir for much Ted.

“It truly is up to Peacock with their, you know, immense amounts of large Scrooge McDuck wealth that they dive into each day,” MacFarlane said. “I deliberation each of us, successful immoderate signifier oregon another, whether it’s a Season 3 of Ted oregon a direct-to-Peacock diagnostic with this cast, is thing I deliberation we’d each beryllium up for. It’s each connected the table.”

Ted began arsenic a live-action drama movie starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis successful 2012. A sequel featuring Wahlberg and Amanda Seyfried past appeared successful 2015 earlier the bid took its teddy carnivore prima (played by MacFarlane) to the TV satellite with Peacock’s Ted bid successful 2024. Instead of Wahlberg, the prequel task stars a younger mentation of his quality played by Max Burkholder.

It’s been a occurrence for the streamer truthful far, with Season 1 landing arsenic a record-breaking deed earlier Season 2 managed to rack up much than 1.2 cardinal minutes viewed successful the period since its March 2026 premiere. Despite the popularity of the Ted show, MacFarlane told The Wrap past period that determination is “no plan” to bash a Season 3. He attributed the deficiency of an update to the outgo to marque the show, suggesting that Universal and Peacock weren’t funny successful a continuation.

“So [showrunners] Brad Walsh and Paul Corrigan and I benignant of painted ourselves into a corner,” MacFarlane said regarding the Season 2 finale. “Is determination a mode to bash it? There’s ever a mode to bash anything. But astatine the moment, it mightiness instrumentality immoderate communicative acrobatics. There’s nary program that I’ve heard of astatine the infinitesimal to bash Season 3.”

While Ted Season 3 oregon a imaginable caller Ted movie aren’t successful the cards yet, MacFarlane is inactive moving connected the antecedently announced animated spinoff. Featuring Wahlberg, Seyfried, and MacFarlane, the bid is expected to prime up wherever the sequel near off.

“And it’s truly funny,” MacFarlane added astatine the Ted panel. “They’ve conscionable done a phenomenal job. It’s joyful, astatine this constituent successful my career, to get thing disconnected the crushed and past ticker it instrumentality signifier nether antithetic stewardship. Brad and Paul person turned this happening into thing that is amusive for maine to watch.”

For more, you tin work our 8/10 reappraisal for Ted Season 2. You tin besides cheque retired our 6/10 reappraisal for Season 1.

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