“Logo text Seth MacFarlane’s Ted series is ready to come out of hibernation. All eight episodes of the Peacock project’s second season are set to premiere on the NBCUniversal-owned streamer on March 5, 2026. The first stills from the new batch of episodes can be seen above and below. MacFarlane voices the hedonistic, anthropomorphic teddy”, — write: www.hollywoodreporter.com
Seth MacFarlane’s Ted series is ready to come out of hibernation.
All eight episodes of the Peacock project’s second season are set to premiere on the NBCUniversal-owned streamer on March 5, 2026. The first stills from the new batch of episodes can be seen above and below.
MacFarlane voices the hedonistic, anthropomorphic teddy bear in the series that serves as a prequel to Universal’s 2012 comedy film of the same name and its 2015 sequel. This season of the family-focused comedy is set in 1994 and features John (Max Burkholder), the 17-year-old version of the character Mark Wahlberg plays in the movies, teaming up with his beloved stuffed animal as they gear up for senior year. Rounding out the show’s cast as John’s kin are Scott Grimes, Alanna Ubach and Giorgia Whigham.
Ted was the top streaming comedy in the US for about two months after its first season debuted in January 2024, with Peacock touting the season as having set a record as its most-watched original title. It also notched big numbers globally, particularly on Sky in the UK
A scene from the second season of Peacock’s Ted. Courtesy of Peacock
Universal Studio Group’s UCP produces Ted alongside MacFarlane’s banner Fuzzy Door and MRC. MacFarlane, Paul Corrigan and Brad Walsh are co-showrunners and executive producers. Erica Huggins, Alana Kleiman, Jason Clark and Aimee Carlson also executive produce.
The Ted universe will continue to expand on Peacock with the upcoming Ted: the Animated Serieswhich was announced earlier this year. It will continue where the Ted movies left off and feature a voice cast of MacFarlane, Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried, Jessica Barth, Kyle Mooney and Liz Richman.
A scene from season two of Peacock’s Ted. Courtesy of Peacock
During a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter timed to the release of the first season, MacFarlane said he felt proud that the live-action series was as “comedically fulfilling” as the Ted movies.
“We really tried to pack them in the same way that we did the films,” MacFarlane said about the first season’s episodes. “You can’t send a car through a barn with a television budget like we did in Ted 2. But as far as the interaction of the characters and the situations, we really did try to keep this up to the level, certainly, of the first movie.”