Peacock Greenlights First Live-Action 'Fast & Furious' TV Series, Eyes 2028 Premiere

LOS ANGELES, OCTOBER 5, 2026 — Twenty-five years after a low-budget street-racing movie about stolen DVD players turned into a $7 billion global empire, the “Fast & Furious” franchise is finally coming to television. Peacock has given a series order to the first live-action “Fast & Furious” TV series, the franchise’s first scripted live-action show ever. The news, first reported by Deadline in the week of October 1, 2026 and confirmed by outlets including The Playlist, Blex Media, Hypebeast, The TV Cave, and Critical Report, turns a project that has been quietly assembling for months into an official green light — and one of the most significant franchise plays of the streaming era.

It is a landmark order in more than one sense. The “Fast” films have collectively generated more than $7 billion at the worldwide box office since the original “The Fast and the Furious” arrived in 2001, making it one of the highest-grossing franchises in cinema history — and until now, its television presence was limited to an animated spinoff. A live-action series means the franchise’s defining asset, the decade-spanning found-family mythology built around Dominic Toretto and his crew, can be expanded in a long-form format for the first time.

The team behind the wheel

The series will be written by Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman, who will write the pilot, serve as co-showrunners, and executive produce. The pairing comes with a real track record: Daniels previously worked on “Sons of Anarchy” and executive produced Peacock’s “Ponies,” while Coleman has credits on “9-1-1: Lone Star.” The two previously worked together on “Shades of Blue,” so this is not a first-time collaboration being assembled for the cameras.

Vin Diesel executive produces through his One Race banner alongside Sam Vincent. The executive producer lineup otherwise reads like the franchise’s brain trust: Neal H. Moritz, who has produced the films since the beginning, Pavun Shetty of Original Film, Jeff Kirschenbaum, and Chris Morgan — the franchise veteran who wrote so much of the saga’s big-screen mythology. Universal Television will produce the series.

The depth of that bench matters. Morgan’s presence in particular signals that this is not a loosely affiliated brand exercise: he is the writer who turned a two-movie racing franchise into a sprawling international saga, and his involvement as an executive producer suggests the series will be built to coexist with the films’ continuity rather than operate as a distant cousin of it.

A 2028 debut — timed to “Fast Forever”

Peacock is targeting a 2028 premiere for the series, timed to the final film, “Fast Forever,” which is dated for theatrical release on March 17, 2028. The 11th and final film in the main series is expected to begin shooting in December 2026, meaning the series and the film’s final chapter will effectively be developed and released as a coordinated one-two punch — the movies’ climax arriving alongside the franchise’s television debut.

The timing also gives the series a clear runway. The franchise was last in theaters with “Fast X” in 2023, which ended on a cliffhanger, and the long gap between that entry and “Fast Forever” means the TV series could arrive as the franchise’s first new story in years — or as a companion piece rolling out alongside the finale, depending on how the calendars ultimately stack up.

Streamers have increasingly treated legacy franchises as their most reliable programming bets — Prime Video just bet the house on “Reacher”, and Netflix moved fast on a second season of its “A Different World” sequel — and a 2028 “Fast” launch would give Peacock a marquee title in the same weight class as those bets. For a streamer that has been methodically building its originals slate, anchoring a year around the biggest action franchise in Universal’s library is about as direct a statement of intent as there is.

From the Upfront stage to a series order

This week’s order did not come out of nowhere. The project was first revealed in May 2026 during NBCUniversal’s Upfront presentation, where Diesel took the stage alongside Jimmy Fallon to announce the franchise’s expansion into television. At the time, Diesel said four “Fast & Furious” shows were in development at Peacock — though only the Daniels/Coleman project was officially set up, with the other three remaining in earlier stages of development.

What has become of those other three projects remains unclear. The reporting around this week’s series order focuses on the Daniels/Coleman show alone, and there is no confirmed update on the status of the rest of the slate Diesel described in May. Whether Peacock intends the full four-show expansion or is consolidating its ambitions around a single flagship is one of the open questions now facing the franchise’s TV future. Given how networks are handing out series orders to established IP this season, the green light for the flagship was the expected first step — the rest of the slate is the story to watch.

Why Diesel said yes now

According to the reporting, Diesel has said fans spent the last decade asking for the legacy characters and their stories to be expanded beyond the films — a decade of demand that the franchise’s biggest years only amplified. His willingness to finally move forward, he said, came down to a corporate change: Universal Studios chief Donna Langley taking oversight of NBCUniversal’s television division last year. That, Diesel said, was when he felt confident the characters’ integrity and international appeal would be protected.

It is an unusually candid bit of franchise politics, and it tells you how Diesel has always thought of “Fast & Furious”: not as a studio property to be licensed out, but as something closer to a family business, with himself as its guardian. The series order, in that light, is not just a programming decision — it is the moment the franchise’s chief steward decided television was finally safe for his characters.

What we still don’t know

For all the detail in this week’s reporting, the show itself remains a blank slate. Plot details are still under wraps. No cast has been announced. And perhaps most notably, it remains unclear whether any established movie characters will appear at all — the question every fan will ask first, and the one the producers are not yet answering.

The secrecy is deliberate, and it is consistent with how the franchise has operated for a quarter-century: the movies have thrived on event-level reveals, and a television series carrying the “Fast” name inherits that tradition. With a 2028 target date, the production has time on its side — casting and story announcements will almost certainly be timed to the long build-up to “Fast Forever,” turning the franchise’s final theatrical bow into a launch pad for its television life.

The franchise, by the numbers

It is worth pausing on the scale of what Peacock has just committed to. The original “The Fast and the Furious” opened in 2001 as a modestly budgeted street-racing picture. Twenty-five years and more than $7 billion in worldwide box office later, it stands as one of the most durable franchises in the history of the medium — a saga that survived cast changes, tonal reinventions, and a mid-run transformation from grounded car culture to globe-trotting blockbuster spectacle without ever losing its audience.

That audience is the bet. A live-action “Fast & Furious” series arrives at a moment when streamers are competing hardest for exactly the kind of proven, generation-spanning fandoms that can anchor a service for years. The series order is Peacock’s biggest swing at that kind of property — and if the 2028 launch lands the way the films’ openings have for a quarter-century, it may not be the last “Fast” show Peacock orders.

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