Overview
- Peacock will launch Ted: The Animated Series on Dec. 17, 2026 with eight episodes at premiere and additional episodes scheduled to stream in 2027.
- Seth MacFarlane returns as the voice of Ted alongside Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried and Jessica Barth reprising their original roles.
- The series was created by MacFarlane with Paul Corrigan and Brad Walsh, who serve as co-showrunners, and lists UGT, Fuzzy Door and MRC as producers with Rough Draft Studios providing animation.
- The show is billed as a sequel set 12 years after Ted 2 that follows John and Ted as middle-aged neighbors with families and dead-end jobs who enable each other’s bad ideas about marriage, parenting and work.
- The move to animation follows a two-season live-action prequel that ended amid high per-episode costs, and the animated shift is meant to expand stunt and visual comedy while easing the production constraints that made the earlier series expensive.