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"Ted" Prequel Series Wraps Production


Sun 27 Nov 2022 | 03:27 PM
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Production wrapped on Peacock's "Ted" prequel series.

The "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane announced the news on Instagram, alongside a photo of Ted at one of the monitors, and reiterated that principal photography on the show had concluded.

Plot details on the highly-anticipated series are kept under a minor shroud of secrecy.

MacFarlane also took the opportunity to thank the cast of the upcoming series, including Scott Grimes, Alanna Ubach, Max Burkholder, and Giorgia Whigham, calling them "brilliant."

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The series is a 1990s-based prequel spun off the two previous "Ted" movies, which were released in 2012 and 2015, respectively.

MacFarlane previously gave a bit of insight into the overarching plot of the show.

"It is a prequel that takes place in 1993 and embraces that era, embraces the nineties, and tracks what is essentially Ted's adolescence, I guess. Ted and John's adolescence. And, growing up in a Boston suburb," he noted.

The series will feature the cast portraying younger versions of characters seen in those installments. This includes Burkholder in the role of John Bennett, the protagonist of the franchise, who was previously portrayed by Mark Wahlberg.

Ubach and Grimes will be playing Bennett's parents, and MacFarlane is once again voicing Ted.

MacFarlane is executive producing the series through his production company Fuzzy Door Productions, alongside Jason Clark, Alana Kleiman, and Erica Huggins. 

The project is co-showrun by Paul Korrigan and Brad Walsh, who also co-wrote the series. 

Peacock has not yet announced a release date for the 10-episode prequel series.