By Seth MacFarlane’s “Ted” prequel series has become the most-watched original title in the history of the Peacock streaming service over its first three days.
All seven episodes released last Thursday with NBCUniversal touting that record, though specific numbers were not given. They did indicate Peacock had its biggest single day in terms of engagement on Saturday this past weekend.
It’s thought the series benefited from the NFL’s Super Wild Card Weekend, the first-ever Peacock-exclusive playoff game between the Miami Dolphins and the Kansas City Chiefs, which became the most-streamed event in U.S. history with 23 million viewers across the app, NFL+, and local NBC stations.
That game brought increased attention to the platform and the series which stars Max Burkholder as a teenage John Bennett with MacFarlane reprising his role as Ted in the 1993-set series.
MacFarlane and the series’ co-showrunners Paul Corrigan and Brad Walsh are reportedly open to the possibility of a second season, despite the show being sold as an ‘event series’ (ie. a one-off), but no renewal order has been handed out at this time.
Source: Collider
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