You may recall last September I reported that Peacock almost cancelled season 2 of the live-action Ted series because of the $8m per episode price tag (I mean, that’s a lot of money) before the show became a massive hit for them… but you might also recall that in that report I also said an animated Ted series was in development.
Well, now we have details on the animated show as well as a little behind-the-scenes, below.
The animated series will be based on Seth MacFarlane’s Ted and Ted 2 and will act as a sequel to these, where as the live-action show is a prequel. So, basically, it’s instead of Ted 3.
MacFarlane will return to voice Ted along with Mark Wahlberg’s John, Amanda Seyfried’s Sam and Jessica Barth as Ted’s wife, Tami-Lynn; along with these, Kyle Mooney will voice new character Apollo and Liz Richman will voice Ruth.
Interestingly, Richman also appears in the live-action series but in that, she plays a character called Polly who is basically a background character in John’s class.
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By complete coincidence, I watched Ted 2 today for the first time in years and while it’s not exactly high art, it is pretty funny and MacFarlane has shown before that he can do long-running comedy shows, so for the immediate future at least, there’s plenty to look forward to in the Ted universe.
Thoughts? I know you have ’em and I wanna hear them all…
Watch the little teaser:
New look, same Ted.#ted: the animated series is coming soon to Peacock. pic.twitter.com/aCjwsCywC2
— Peacock (@peacock) May 9, 2025
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Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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