Peacock Doubles Down On 'Ted' With Animated Series
Thunder buddies are now extra drawn
Peacock is having Ted and animating it too. This time it’s him and everyone around him. After renewing the live-action-dominant prequel series for a second season, which wrapped filming in January, Peacock has ordered a fully-animated Ted series that takes place after 2015’s Ted 2.
Working under the title Ted: The Animated Series, there’s no current logline or synopsis. Seth MacFarlane once again voices the title living teddy bear, but also brings back Mark Wahlberg as John Bennett, his second voice role ever after Blue Falcon in Scoob!, Amanda Seyfried as Sam Jackson, and Jessica Barth as Ted’s wife Tami-Lynn. Their son Apollo, who was adopted soon after they remarried at the end of the second film after winning his fight for personhood, will be voiced by Brigsby Bear writer and star and Saturday Night Live alum Kyle Mooney, while Liz Sheridan voices a character named Ruth. While thanks to animation it could be any time in the past 10 years, giving Apollo a voice actor like Mooney might make it realish time, if not a couple of years younger and bar any gimmicks at too young an age or longer time elapsed. The announcement video features them in the booth in lieu of revealing the series’s art style.
Peacock Books 'Ted' A Second Event
Can you bear it? Peacock is bringing Ted back again, renewing the Seth MacFarlane-created prequel series to his films for a second season.
Seyfried happens to have been the voice of Daphne Blake in Scoob!, and her other voice roles include episodes of American Dad!, Cosmos, and Family Guy, all of which are either MacFarlane’s creation or production. MacFarlane executive produces with Paul Corrigan and Brad Walsh, who also executive produced the prequel series produced by UCP, MacFarlane’s company Fuzzy Door and MRC. The series’s other executive producers are Erica Huggins, Alana Kleiman, Jason Clark, Aimee Carlson from Fuzzy Door, and Claudia Katz from Rough Draft.
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Source: Deadline
Knowing how MacFarlane started his career, I would have thought he would have done "Ted" as an animated TV show to begin with.