Back in March, Ted returned for its second season on Peacock after a two-year gap and gave the Bennett family a fitting sendoff as John and his rude bear pal enjoyed their last days of high school before college. The series has thrived as a prequel to the 2010s blockbuster comedies starring Mark Wahlberg, with its sophomore outing racking up over 1.2 billion minutes watched within seven weeks of release and becoming the top comedy on television in that time by Nielsen’s ratings. Despite being beloved by critics and audiences and being one of the streamer’s biggest series to date, creator and star Seth MacFarlane has said there were “no plans” at the time to continue the sitcom with Season 3 and onward. However, he’s far from done with his talking stuffed animal.
It was announced last year that MacFarlane would return to his adult animation expertise with Ted: The Animated Series, which will leave John and Ted’s past behind to return to their adult years. Alongside his Ted co-showrunners and executive producers Paul Corrigan and Brad Walsh, the Family Guy creator will pick up 12 years after the events of Ted 2 as the thunder-buddies navigate the trials of adulthood as husbands with families and dead-end jobs. Now neighbors, they’re always willing to lend an ear, smoke a joint, or enable each other’s worst ideas about marriage, parenting, or whatever else is on their minds. Most exciting of all, however, was the confirmation that MacFarlane would reunite with his main movie cast at last, including Wahlberg as John, Amanda Seyfried as Sam, and Jessica Barth as Tami-Lynn.
After a long wait for some official news, Peacock has now confirmed that John and the bear he wished to life will be back on the platform before the year’s end. Ted: The Animated Series will drop all eight episodes of its first season on December 17, with additional episodes to follow sometime in 2027. Accompanying the release date was the first official teaser, showing John and Ted in 2D animated form for the first time and teasing the possibilities of what they can do now that they’re loose from the bounds of live-action reality. Unfortunately for John, the animators are cruel and not only make him injure himself on a backflip, but also drop an anvil on him, Looney Tunes style. If that’s the sort of slapstick they’re doing for the announcement, as Ted says, “This is gonna be fun.”
Collider Exclusive · Universe Personality Quiz Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong in the Most? Star Wars · Lord of the Rings · Harry Potter · Game of Thrones · Star Trek
Five legendary universes. Five completely different visions of what the world could be — or already was. One of them is the world your instincts, your values, and your particular way of existing were built for. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🚀Star Wars
💍Lord of the Rings
🧙Harry Potter
👑Game of Thrones
🖖Star Trek
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What gives your life its deepest sense of meaning? Every universe is built around a different answer to this question.
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Which kind of world do you most want to inhabit? The environment shapes who you become. Choose carefully.
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How do you prefer your conflicts resolved? The shape of a world’s conflicts tells you everything about its soul.
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Who do you want beside you when things get difficult? Your ideal companions reveal the world you were made for.
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What is your relationship with power? How you seek, wield, or resist power is the map of who you are.
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How does your universe treat good and evil? A world’s moral architecture tells you more about it than any map.
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What role would you naturally fall into? Every universe has archetypes. Which one fits you without trying?
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What do you ultimately believe about the future? The answer to this is the clearest window into which universe already lives inside you.
Your Universe Has Been Chosen You Belong In…
Your answers point to the iconic universe your values, your instincts, and your particular way of seeing the world were built for. This is where you would find your people — and your purpose.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
You believe in the cause — in the idea that freedom is worth fighting for even when the odds are impossible and the empire is vast.
You are drawn to the moral clarity of a universe where hope itself is a form of resistance.
You’d find your people in the Rebellion — a ragtag coalition of true believers held together by conviction more than resources.
Star Wars is fundamentally a story about ordinary people choosing to matter in an extraordinary conflict — and that is exactly your kind of story.
The Force may or may not be with you. But the will to use it for something larger than yourself certainly is.
Middle-earth
Lord of the Rings
You understand, in the deepest part of yourself, that the journey matters as much as the destination — and that the world’s beauty is worth protecting even at great cost.
Middle-earth is a world of ancient wonder, deep friendship, and a darkness that only retreats when enough small acts of courage accumulate.
You would thrive here because you value the fellowship more than the glory — the road more than the arrival.
Tolkien’s universe rewards patience, loyalty, and the willingness to carry something heavy across a very long distance.
Those are not burdens to you. They are simply how you move through the world.
The Wizarding World
Harry Potter
You believe that love, loyalty, and doing what’s right are not naive sentiments — they are the most powerful forces in any world, magical or otherwise.
The Wizarding World is a place of wonder hidden in plain sight, where learning is transformative and the bonds you form at school follow you into every battle.
You would flourish here because you take both the magic and the friendships seriously — and you understand that one without the other is incomplete.
Harry Potter’s universe ultimately rewards those who choose to stand for something even when standing is terrifying.
That choice — made quietly, without guarantee — is something you understand completely.
Westeros · The Known World
Game of Thrones
You see the world clearly — its power structures, its hypocrisies, its brutal arithmetic — and you are not paralysed by that clarity. You use it.
Westeros is a world that rewards intelligence, adaptability, and the willingness to understand that every alliance is also a negotiation.
You would survive here — possibly thrive here — because you don’t confuse the world as it is with the world as you’d like it to be.
Game of Thrones is a story about what happens when the idealists and the realists collide. You are sharp enough to know which one lasts longer.
Winter always comes. You are already prepared.
The United Federation of Planets
Star Trek
You believe the future is worth building — that curiosity, cooperation, and the expansion of understanding are not just ideals but the most practical path forward for any civilisation.
Star Trek is a universe where the questions matter as much as the answers, and where encountering something utterly alien is cause for wonder rather than fear.
You would belong here because you are fundamentally optimistic about what intelligence and decency can achieve — while being honest about how hard that achievement is.
The Federation is the universe’s most ambitious thought experiment: what if we actually got better?
You don’t just hope that’s possible. You think it’s the only thing worth working toward.
‘Ted: The Animated Series’ Welcomes Two Newcomers to the Family
While the Ted series was viewed as a breath of fresh air for MacFarlane that married raunchy comedy with some surprising heart, the new animated show will look to keep that same spirit while returning to what made Ted so beloved in the first place. The first film’s release in 2012 was warmly received with a $549 million global box office haul, and while the sequel wasn’t quite as highly praised, it still earned a respectable $216 million. In addition to the returning stars, Saturday Night Live alum and Y2K helmer Kyle Mooney is coming aboard as Apollo, while Liz Richman, who appeared in the live-action show as Polly, will lend her voice to Ruth. Rough Draft Studios, which has worked on Futurama, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Disenchantment, and more, is handling the animation.
Ted: The Animated Series premieres on Peacock with eight episodes on December 17. Check out the first teaser in the player above.
Release Date
2024 – 2026-00-00
Network
Peacock
Writers
Dana Gould, Jon Pollack, Brad Walsh, Julius Sharpe, Paul Corrigan, Seth MacFarlane
