Ted is again, and animation often is the excellent place to unleash the foul-mouthed bear. Peacock has launched the primary look trailer for Ted: The Animated Collection, the brand new animated continuation of the Ted films from Seth MacFarlane.
The sequence will premiere Thursday, December seventeenth, with eight episodes, reuniting Ted with Mark Wahlberg’s John for an additional spherical of ridiculous adventures.
Not like Peacock’s live-action Ted sequence, which serves as a prequel to the flicks, Ted: The Animated Collection strikes the movie story ahead. It takes place 12 years after Ted 2, with Ted and John now neighbors who’ve households of their very own, together with dead-end jobs that apparently haven’t made them any extra accountable.
Mark Wahlberg returns as John, with Amanda Seyfried reprising her position as Sam and Jessica Barth returning as Tami-Lynn. MacFarlane is, in fact, again because the voice of Ted. The solid additionally provides Kyle Mooney as Apollo and Liz Richman as Ruth.
The animated format ought to give MacFarlane and firm loads of freedom to push Ted and John’s stupidity into territory that will be significantly tougher and dearer to tug off in reside motion. It additionally made it a lot simpler to get Wahlberg and Seyfried again regardless of their busy schedules.
MacFarlane created the sequence alongside Paul Corrigan and Brad Walsh, who beforehand government produced Peacock’s live-action Ted. Corrigan and Walsh will function showrunners, with animation dealt with by Tough Draft Studios, Inc.
Whereas eight episodes will arrive in December, that isn’t all Peacock has deliberate. Further episodes are anticipated someday in 2027, though a launch date for that batch hasn’t been introduced.
For followers of the live-action Ted sequence, nevertheless, the long run isn’t practically as promising. After Season 2, MacFarlane defined that the price of producing the present grew to become a serious impediment to persevering with it.
“What I stored listening to [from Peacock and Universal] was, ‘Hear, the present is actually costly to provide and there’s no approach to do it at a decrease value.
“So I mentioned, ‘All proper, I hear you loud and clear.’ So I wrote the final scene with Max [Burkholder] strolling right into a health club, presumably popping out as Mark Wahlberg within the first Ted movie.”
That leaves TED: The Animated Collection because the franchise’s present path ahead, whereas additionally bringing the story again to the characters who kicked the entire thing off.
There’s nonetheless loads of potential to attach the 2 sides of the franchise down the street. The Peacock prequel constructed up its personal solid of characters and followers, so it might be cool to see MacFarlane discover a approach to work a few of them into the animated sequence ultimately.
For now, Ted and John are older, they’ve households, they’ve awful jobs, and one way or the other maturity nonetheless hasn’t managed to straighten them out.
