The upcoming Peacock show (self-titled Ted), however, omits the actor in favor of a younger one to play the teen years of protagonist John Bennett.
Ted’s TV adaptation didn’t come out of nowhere — around this time last year, Collider reported on Peacock ordering a TV show based around this profane bear.
At the same time, we get to explore Ted’s fall from the graces of fame, which took place sometime before the film’s opening.
Since potty-mouthed teddy bears don’t actually exist in the real world, a lot of the initial film’s raw footage was on Wahlberg.