Fans of the comedy prequel show Ted, created by Seth MacFarlane as a continuation of the characters seen in the Mark Wahlberg-starring Ted movies, are calling for the network to renew the show.
Ted ran for two seasons, with MacFarlane confirming that, although there is enough story to carry the programme on for several seasons more, the funding just isn’t there. Fans were devastated by the news of Ted not continuing into a third season, and hope that rallying around the show on social media will cause enough of a buzz to push Peacock into renewing the show for a third season. MacFarlane said: “If something is character-based, it can go indefinitely because it’s whatever situation you choose to put these people into, because it’s the people that your audience is showing up for.
“That’s the simplest answer I can give. Ted is a character-based show. The only thing that hinders us is the expense. To create the bear is a lot of money. But you have these fantastic actors, you have this fantastic writing crew. You can do as many as you want. I mean, you could do twenty seasons of this thing, and it would work, but you have the CGI element that makes it challenging.
“But story-wise, to answer your question, it can be indefinite. There’s no limit to the number of stories you can tell with characters that people want to visit week after week.”
Fans have since rallied around the show on X, hoping that Peacock gives MacFarlane the money required for a third season. One fan wrote: “Does Peacock really think fifty seasons of Love Island is gonna save their disastrous earnings? Open your wallet, bird. Give us more Ted.”
Another added: “My brother in Christ I’ll take a damn puppet Elmo-style if it means keeping the show going.” A third wrote: “Ted is the only Peacock Original I’ve ever heard regular people in real life talk about. Any smart company would dump all of their funding into it to make it last forever.”
Others joked about a “one-time Ted tax” which would see every person in the country cough up five dollars to fund the show. They wrote: “If we instituted a one-time Ted tax of five dollars for every American (roughly 250 million people), then that would be enough money for at least fifteen seasons of Ted.”
Another added: “I’m so serious I will watch the Ted show with very minimal or no Ted at all, the Beneett family cast is too good to not continue making episodes.” A third wrote: “Get the Jim Henson Company on the line and give the world a Practical Ted.”
MacFarlane has since confirmed there are no plans for a third season, given the high costs of production, which he says run between eight and ten million dollars.
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