Set in 1993, the "Ted" series acts as a prequel to the two comedy movies featuring the titular talking teddy bear. Seth MacFarlane is the series' director, executive producer, writer and co ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10 (UPI) --The streaming series Ted, premiering Thursday on Peacock, is a prequel to the two movies that starred Mark Wahlberg and his teddy bear sidekick. Set in the 1990s ...

When a Christmas wish brings his teddy bear, Ted, to life, everything changes. Thankfully, MacFarlane and screenplay co-writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild (both writers for Family Guy ...

Kids have always talked to their stuffed animals. In Ted, the bawdy teddy bear fantasy that has yielded two R-rated movies and now a new prequel series on Peacock, the furry beast talks back ...

Seth MacFarlane’s foul-mouthed teddy bear gets a logical scaled-down ... to concoct something that might justify another movie (which, as “Ted 2” suggested, pulled the string once too ...

Audiences could safely assume the movies’ one-note ... to speak of “Ted 2.”) “Ted,” the TV show, has no such North Star. A teenager with a talking teddy bear is not different enough ...

The biggest difference between the movies and the latest project is ... Ted‘s self-indulgence is right in line with its leading bear — after all, Ted never bites his tongue or second-guesses ...

The raunchy, politically incorrect tone from the movies remains intact ... resolved just in time for the credits. Turns out “Ted” was a bear of its time, and that time was 2012.

but they aren't necessarily shocking or hilarious compared to the rest of the movie. Fallon's joke said that if Ted could ...

This television prequel of the popular 2012 movie premiers on Jan. 11 ... to personify a profound realism for the stuffed bear, surrounding him by all the “meatheads” in greater Boston. “Putting Ted ...