{"id":71308,"date":"2022-07-06T14:51:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/seth-macfarlane-reveals-ted-tv-series-is-set-in-the-90s-and-will-embrace-being-an-r-rated-comedy"},"modified":"2022-07-06T14:51:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:51:21","slug":"seth-macfarlane-reveals-ted-tv-series-is-set-in-the-90s-and-will-embrace-being-an-r-rated-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/seth-macfarlane-reveals-ted-tv-series-is-set-in-the-90s-and-will-embrace-being-an-r-rated-comedy","title":{"rendered":"Seth MacFarlane reveals Ted TV series is set in the &#8217;90s and will embrace being an R-rated comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Image credit: Universal Pictures)Seth MacFarlane says the Ted TV series will be the same type of crude R-rated comedy as its predecessor &#8211; and that fans will be &#8220;very happy.&#8221;The 2012 film, which starred Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis, follows a man named John who makes a childhood wish to bring his stuffed teddy bear to life. MacFarlane provides the voice and motion capture for Ted, a foul-mouthed CGI bear who seems to annoy everyone around him. Ted grossed around $550 million worldwide, making it Universal&#8217;s highest-grossing movie of that year and the overall highest-grossing comedy of all time.In a new interview with Collider, the Family Guy creator spoke at length about the new show, which Peacock ordered to series back in 2021. The series stars MacFarlane, Scott Grimes, Giorgia Whigham, Alanna Ubach, and Max Burkholder as a teenage John.&#8221;It&#8217;s going great,&#8221; MacFarlane said of filming. &#8220;It&#8217;s a prequel that takes place in 1993 and embraces that era, embraces the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth MacFarlane says the Ted TV series will be the same type of crude R-rated comedy as its predecessor &#8211; and that fans will be &#8220;very happy.&#8221; The 2012 film,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,163,170,176],"class_list":["post-71308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-entertainment","tag-tv-videos","tag-tv-series","tag-tv-shows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}