‘Ted’ Animated Series Sets Peacock Release Date — SkimNews
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- Peacock will premiere 'Ted: The Animated Series' with its first eight episodes on Dec. 17, with additional episodes set to air in 2027.
- Seth MacFarlane returns to voice Ted, with Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried, and Jessica Barth reprising their film roles as John, Sam, and Tami-Lynn, respectively.
- Kyle Mooney joins the cast voicing new character Apollo, while Liz Richman voices Ruth.
- The series is set 12 years after the events of 'Ted' and 'Ted 2,' following John and Ted as 'neighbors, both with families of their own and dead-end jobs' who 'enable each other's bad ideas about marriage, parenting and the challenges of adult life,' per the logline.
- MacFarlane, Paul Corrigan, and Brad Walsh created the series, with animation by Rough Draft Studios; it is produced by Universal Global Television and MRC.
- This marks Peacock's second 'Ted' TV series, following a two-season live-action prequel set during John's high school years — a show MacFarlane has said has no third season planned due to its high cost.
Why it matters: The animated pivot is likely a budget play: Peacock's live-action 'Ted' prequel was shelved after two seasons because MacFarlane flagged it as too expensive, and Rough Draft Studios (not the high-cost live-action crew) is producing this version. For Universal and MRC, the franchise still prints money — the 2012 original grossed nearly $550 million on a $65 million budget and the 2015 sequel pulled in over $215 million — making the property worth a cheaper animated continuation.
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