Ted Showrunners Discuss Season 2's VFX Challenges, Emotional Comedy Balance, and Animated Series Plans
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Summary
Ted showrunners Seth MacFarlane, Brad Walsh, and Paul Corrigan discuss the challenges and creative process behind Season 2 of the Peacock series, which blends raunchy comedy with heartfelt emotional moments. They highlight the Emmy-worthy VFX team's work on ambitious CGI sight gags, balancing the talking teddy bear's humor with genuine character development, and tease a potential Season 3 as well as an upcoming animated series spinoff.
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· 3 pulledRunning a comedy is already hard enough. But, running one built around a CGI teddy bear presents its own unique challenges.
Season 2 takes some worthy swings that blend broad comedy with surprising emotional depth, all while pulling off some of TV's most ambitious VFX feats across various sight gags.
Below, MacFarlane, Walsh and Corrigan talk to Deadline about the realities of balancing heartfelt and raunchy comedy, the Emmy-worthy VFX team, a potential Season 3 and the upcoming animated series.
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