Peacock Orders a Fast & Furious Series for 2028

Peacock ordered a live-action Fast & Furious series on October 1, 2026, aiming at a 2028 debut the same year Fast Forever reaches theaters. Vin Diesel will executive produce. There is no title, no cast list, and no plot on the record.

Universal Television is making the show for NBCUniversal’s streamer, with Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman writing the pilot and running the series. The billed last movie still sits on March 17, 2028, after slipping from April 2027.

A Series Order at Peacock, 25 Years On

The original film opened on June 22, 2001, with Diesel as Dominic Toretto and Paul Walker as Brian O’Conner, the FBI officer sent into his crew. Nine sequels followed, plus the 2019 spin-off Hobbs & Shaw. Fast Forever is lined up as the 11th mainline film. Diesel has appeared in eight of the movies, skipping 2 Fast 2 Furious and Tokyo Drift.

The franchise has taken in more than $7 billion at the global box office across 25 years, a figure the streamer and the studio now recite whenever the brand moves. Theme-park rides, games, and merch already sit around it. Live-action television did not, until this order.

Daniels’s credits include Sons of Anarchy, Shades of Blue, Peacock’s Ponies, and NBC’s Rockford Files reboot. Coleman came from 9-1-1: Lone Star and also worked on Shades of Blue. They will executive produce with Diesel, One Race’s Sam Vincent, Original Film’s Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty, Jeff Kirschenbaum, and Chris Morgan, who wrote most of the sequels. Moritz has produced the movies since the first one.

Peacock is calling this its first Fast series. That is true for live action. It is not the first time the brand went to TV.

2028 Now Holds the Finale and the Follow-On

Fast Forever is still sold as the last mainline film. The series is dated only to the same calendar year. Nobody has said whether the show starts after that movie, beside it, or in some earlier pocket of the story. Weekly television and a March theatrical date can share a year without sharing a timeline, and the studio has not picked one.

The movie’s date has already moved. Universal once pointed at April 2027, then locked March 17, 2028, when the Fast Forever title went public in January 2026. Fast X, released in 2023, ended on a cliffhanger, with Toretto and his son trapped after Dante Reyes blew a dam. A finale that expensive, this late, is still the thing the TV order has to live next to.

THE ROAD TO A SHARED YEAR

1. June 22, 2001: The Fast and the Furious opens in U.S. theaters.
2. December 26, 2019: Fast & Furious Spy Racers premieres as a kids’ cartoon on Netflix.
3. December 17, 2021: The cartoon ends after 52 episodes across six seasons.
4. 2023: Fast X arrives, then leaves the next film without a firm date.
5. January 2026: Diesel posts the Fast Forever title and the March 17, 2028, theater date.
6. May 11, 2026: At NBCUniversal’s New York upfront, Diesel says Peacock is launching four Fast shows.
7. October 1, 2026: Peacock orders the Daniels and Coleman series, aiming at 2028.

A goodbye movie that needs a 2028 slot, and a series built for the same year, is how a finale starts to look like a handoff. The theatrical film can still close the current saga. The streamer now owns the next way to keep the name on screen after the credits.

Four Universe Shows Were Pitched in May

Diesel did not walk into the upfront with one pilot. Introduced by Jimmy Fallon, he told advertisers Peacock was launching four shows from the Fast universe. The streamer later made clear that only one series sat in active development. That is the one that now has an order. The other three remain early scripts at Universal Television, with no bake-off and no promise they will be picked up.

THE FOUR FAST TV FILES

Wootton’s credits include The Endgame, Law & Order, and NYPD Blue. DeGraté has written House of the Dragon, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Acolyte. Escajeda ran Griselda and executive produced Silo. Henderson ran Lucifer. Those names tell you the studio wanted more than one tone on the table: crime, dynasty, and pulp. Only the Daniels-Coleman file cleared the order hurdle.

A four-show pitch in May, followed by a single order in October, is not a full universe launch. It is a first series with spare scripts in a drawer. If those other files ever move, 2028 will look even less like an ending. Right now they are options, not shows.

Why Diesel Waited for Donna Langley

Diesel has spent years calling the movies too precious to stretch. At the May 11 upfront he said the hold-up was not demand. Fans, he said, had asked for more legacy-character stories for a decade. The delay was his, until Universal Studios chief Donna Langley also oversaw NBCUniversal’s TV side.

As you all know, we are very precious about these movies but over the last decade, we’ve realized that the fans have wanted more, they wanted us to expand the legacy characters, their stories. And for the last decade, the desire has been for us to enter the TV space.

Vin Diesel, NBCUniversal upfront, New York

He tied the yes to Langley in the next breath. Once she had TV as well as film, he said, he knew the integrity of the characters would be protected, along with the international audience and “what makes us all feel like family.” That is a producer talking about chain of command. The show stays inside Universal Television, on a Universal-owned streamer, with the movie producers on the call sheet. Diesel’s company is in the room. So is Chris Morgan.

Keeping Fast in-house is the point of that speech. A Netflix cartoon already proved the brand could live in episodes. Live action, with the film team attached, is the version Diesel would sign. Langley’s dual brief gave him a single executive to blame if the TV show drifted. The order now tests that bet, two years before anyone can watch it.

The Cartoon Cousin Already Lasted Six Seasons

Netflix’s Fast & Furious Spy Racers ran from December 26, 2019, to December 17, 2021. DreamWorks Animation made it. Diesel, Moritz, and Morgan executive produced, the same core that is now on the Peacock series. The hero was Tony Toretto, voiced by Tyler Posey, a teenage cousin of Dom’s recruited with his friends to infiltrate a racing circuit that fronted a crime ring.

It was a TV-Y7 show, 23 minutes an episode, built for a younger audience than the movies. It also lasted. Six seasons. Fifty-two episodes. That is a six-season animated run on Netflix in a window when the films had gone quiet between Hobbs & Shaw and the delayed F9. The cartoon did not have to match a $340 million live-action budget. It had to sound like Fast and keep kids watching.

WHAT SPY RACERS ALREADY PROVED

• A cousin, not a reboot: Tony Toretto let the show expand the family tree without recasting Dom as a series lead.
• The same producers: Diesel, Moritz, and Morgan were already in TV credits years before the Peacock order.
• A closed run: The series ended cleanly in December 2021, so Peacock is not inheriting a live show. It is starting over in live action.

The live-action order has to answer a harder version of that test. Adults who bought tickets for Fast X will not sit still for a kids’ cartoon with better cars. A weekly series also cannot stage a dam collapse every Thursday. The cartoon solved this by going younger and weirder. Peacock has not said which way Daniels and Coleman will go.

Fast X Cost $340 Million and Grossed $727.7 Million

The theatrical side of this brand is not the machine it was in 2015. Furious 7 remains the peak, at $1.51 billion worldwide on a $190 million production budget. The Fate of the Furious followed at $1.20 billion on $250 million. Fast X, the film that left the cliffhanger, carried a $340 million production budget, the highest in the set, and stalled well under those billion-dollar marks.

THREE FILMS, THREE BUDGETS

Those worldwide figures are from Fast X’s $727.7 million worldwide gross and the matching ledger for the two earlier hits. In the United States, the drop is sharper still. Fast X took $146.1 million domestic. Furious 7’s $353 million U.S. total still sits on top of the domestic chart, with Fast & Furious 6 at $238.7 million. Fast X’s American number is eighth among the main films, behind even the 2009 Fast & Furious.

A $340 million shoot that returns $727.7 million before marketing is why a 2028 movie gets argued over in conference rooms. It is also why a TV series starts to look useful. Episode television, even expensive episode television, does not have to clear a billion dollars in two weeks. It has to keep subscribers inside Peacock, where Fast X already lives as a title on the app.

Diesel has been selling Fast Forever as a return to street racing and, in August 2026, as the best script he had read in decades, crediting writer Michael Lesslie. That is the theatrical pitch. The TV order does not wait for that pitch to prove itself in theaters. It books the brand a second 2028 window while the movie is still being wrestled onto a budget.

Title, Cast and Plot Stay Off the Record

The October 1 order named the room and the year. It did not name a lead. Diesel’s producing deal does not put him in front of the camera. A show about Toretto’s world can run for a season without Toretto, the way Spy Racers ran on a cousin. It can also bring Diesel in for a handful of episodes and call that event television. Until someone says which, the recasting jokes write themselves, because the announcement left a Dom-shaped hole.

Weekly Fast also cannot spend like Fast X. A series that tries to copy submarine cars and city-level wrecks on a television schedule will look cheap, or it will blow the budget the movie is already fighting. The work in front of Daniels and Coleman is the unglamorous kind: pick a scale, pick a corner of the family, and stay there long enough that “family” is a plot, not a slogan.

WHAT WE KNOW

• The order: Peacock has picked up a Universal Television series from Daniels and Coleman, with Diesel among the executive producers.
• The window: The streamer is aiming at 2028, the same year Fast Forever is dated for March 17.
• The extras: Three other Fast series remain in early development and have not been ordered.

WHAT IS UNCONFIRMED

• The show: No title, no cast, no logline, and no word on whether Diesel appears as Dom.
• The timeline: No one has said if the series follows Fast Forever, overlaps it, or ignores it.
• The movie: Fast Forever still has no public cast list and no studio start-of-production notice.

On October 1, Peacock put a Fast series on the books for 2028. Fast Forever still has to be shot, cut, and delivered by March 17 of that year. Until one of those dates moves, the franchise’s last movie and its first live-action show are scheduled to arrive as a pair.