{"id":2315927,"date":"2026-03-06T17:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2315927"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:54:23","slug":"seth-macfarlane-says-theres-no-plan-to-do-ted-season-3-citing-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/seth-macfarlane-says-theres-no-plan-to-do-ted-season-3-citing-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth MacFarlane Says There\u2019s \u2018No Plan\u2019 to Do \u2018Ted\u2019 Season 3, Citing Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Note: This story contains spoilers for \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14824792\/\">Ted<\/a>\u201d Season 2.<\/p>\n<p>Ted and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0071838\/\">John Bennett<\/a>\u2019s wild teenage adventures may have reached its end, as creator <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0532235\/\">Seth MacFarlane<\/a> says there is \u201cno plan\u201d for a third season of the Peacock prequel series.<\/p>\n<p>While \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14824792\/\">Ted<\/a>\u201d Season 1 became Peacock\u2019s most-viewed title following its debut, MacFarlane emphasized that the show is expensive to produce. Some estimates have pegged the prequel series\u2019 budget between $8 million and $10 million per episode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I kept hearing [from Peacock and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0291326\/\">Universal<\/a>] was, \u2018Listen, the show is really expensive to produce and there\u2019s no way to do it at a lower cost. So I said, \u2018All right, I hear you loud and clear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: This story contains spoilers for \u201cTed\u201d Season 2. Ted and John Bennett\u2019s wild teenage adventures may have reached its end, as creator Seth MacFarlane says there is \u201cno plan\u201d for a third season of the Peacock prequel series. While \u201cTed\u201d Season 1 became Peacock\u2019s most-viewed title following its debut, MacFarlane emphasized that the show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2315928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2315927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seth-MacFarlane-Says-Theres-\u2018No-Plan-to-Do-\u2018Ted-Season.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315929,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315927\/revisions\/2315929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}