Peacock develops Fast & Furious TV series, Vin Diesel announces move to television

Peacock has put Fast & Furious back on the road, this time as a television play meant to stretch one of Universal’s most bankable brands beyond the multiplex. Vin Diesel announced the move during NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, telling the crowd that the franchise’s fans had wanted more for years and that the timing had finally arrived to take the property into television.

The plan is bigger in ambition than its current shape. Diesel said Peacock was launching four shows from the Fast and Furious universe, but a person familiar with the project confirmed that only one live-action series is actually in development now, with other ideas still at different stages. The pilot will be written by Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman, who previously worked together on NBC’s Shades of Blue, and Universal Television will produce the show with Diesel, One Race, Neal Moritz, Pavun Shetty, Jeff Kirschenbaum and Chris Morgan attached as producers.

The pitch is built around expansion, not repetition. Diesel said television would give the creative team room to deepen legacy characters and their stories while keeping the international reach and family-centered identity that made the films a global hit. That framing matters because Fast & Furious has already moved far beyond a straightforward action series. The franchise spans 11 films, has grossed more than $7 billion worldwide, and still has another chapter ahead with Fast Forever, set for 2028. The Numbers lists that film for March 14, 2028, while other reporting has pointed to March 17, 2028.

Diesel also described his own resistance before coming around. He said he had once turned down a sequel to the first Fast & Furious film because he was protective of the brand, and he said he became more comfortable with a television expansion after Donna Langley took oversight of NBCUniversal’s TV operation last year. That suggests Peacock is not just chasing a recognizable title; it is betting that tighter oversight can make a sprawling movie franchise work in serialized form without losing the protective grip that has kept the brand intact.

The company is also not entering uncharted territory. Netflix previously ran Fast & Furious Spy Racers for six seasons, and its listing identifies the animated series as a 2021 title centered on Tony Toretto and his friends infiltrating a criminal street-racing circuit. But the live-action push is a different test: whether audiences still see Fast & Furious as a growth engine or as a nostalgia asset being repackaged for streaming.

That question will hang over the franchise again at Cannes, where The Fast and the Furious is scheduled for a midnight screening on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, at 11:45 p.m. in the Grand Théâtre Lumière. Cannes says Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Neal H. Moritz and Meadow Walker are expected to attend, underscoring how a franchise launched in 2001 has become one of Universal’s longest-running and most profitable properties, and now a streaming-era test case as well.