Peacock TV Adds Retrocrush.TV ; Orders “Ted” Live-Action Series From Seth MacFarlane

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Peacock has announced a straight-to-series order for “Ted,” from UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, and MRC Television.

The series is based on the hit Universal Pictures and MRC Film’s “Ted,” the highest grossing original R-rated comedy of all time (not a sequel or based on other IP). Collectively “Ted” and “Ted 2” grossed more than $750 million worldwide.

MacFarlane is in negotiations to reprise the voice of the iconic and lovable foul-mouthed teddy bear. The live-action series, based on Seth MacFarlane’s feature films released by Universal Pictures with MRC Film, will be executive produced by MacFarlane and Erica Huggins for Fuzzy Door.

RetroCrush, a 24/7 streaming channel devoted to classic anime, continues to expand its reach and is now streaming on Peacock.

RetroCrush, available on Peacock as of today, was initially launched by DMR in 2019 as a social video channel, growing to become one of the most popular anime channels on YouTube and Facebook, with more than 1.2 million subscribers/follower, and averaging 38 million monthly video views. On March 30, 2020, RetroCrush launched as a standalone OTT service and app, which today includes more than 100 series and 40 features from the 70s, 80s and 90s and is available on iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV, Roku and smart TVs, and on desktop at www.retrocrush.tv.

Titles coming to Peacock in coming months include The Story of Saiunkoku (ColourCloud Palace), The Twelve Kingdoms, Appleseed, Arcadia of My Youth, Black Jack: The Movie, Hells, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Robot Carnival, Area 88, Ceres: Celestial Legend, Cromartie High School, Fushigi Yugi: OVA, GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka, New Getter Robo, Flame of Recca, Kobato, Arcadia of My Youth, Endless Orbit SSX, Gakuen Heaven, Kaiba, Library Wars, Mazinger Edition Z, Voltes V, Earl and Fairy and Fushigi Yugi.

Our Take

Together with the recent move of TZGZ originals headed to the service, Peacock TV is slowly but surely becoming a force of nature that could be reckoned with in the streaming wars.

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