Seth MacFarlane says Ted is just too dang expensive to keep on making

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Saying the Peacock series' CGI is like 'doing an Avengers movie every 22 minutes,' MacFarlane says there's 'no plan' for a season 3.

can fix them: Seth MacFarlane has revealed that he currently has “no plan” to make a third season of his Peacock series because, turns out, that CGI weed-smoking teddy bear is kind of expensive to keep putting on the screen.

that “What I kept hearing was, ‘Listen, the show is really expensive to produce and there’s no way to do it at a lower cost.’ So I said, ‘All right, I hear you loud and clear.’” Although there’s been no formal decision on whether the show would get a third season, MacFarlane points out that he and his writers very deliberately wrote the show’s second-season finale to serve as a potential series ender, with main character John committing to getting really buff . “So Brad Walsh and Paul Corrigan and I kind of painted ourselves into a corner,” MacFarlane noted. “Is there a way to do it? There’s always a way to do anything. But at the moment, it might take some narrative acrobatics. There’s no plan that I’ve heard of at the moment to do Season 3.”spin-off, which will presumably get around all those pesky cost overruns by going pure cartoon. (Not that the series will necessarily be, and is set to co-star Wahlberg and Amanda Seyfried—but at least they won’t have to be doing the constant

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