‘Fast & Furious’ TV Series Officially Greenlit at Peacock

The Fast & Furious franchise is officially shifting gears and heading to television.

Peacock has given a series order to a live-action Fast & Furious television series, taking the blockbuster Universal franchise into scripted TV for the first time. The project had already been announced as being in development earlier this year, but now Peacock has officially hit the gas and ordered it to series.

And because apparently this franchise has not found a vehicle it cannot successfully drive through, the series is currently being eyed for a 2028 premiere. Plot details are still under wraps, so there is no word yet on exactly where the show will fit within the larger Fast & Furious universe or whether any familiar movie characters will appear.

The television expansion has actually been brewing for a few months. Vin Diesel announced at NBCUniversal’s May upfront presentation that a Fast & Furious series was being developed for Peacock, saying fans had wanted to see the franchise expand its legacy characters and stories beyond the films.

At the time, Peacock confirmed that Diesel and Sam Vincent would executive produce through One Race Films, alongside longtime Fast & Furious producer Neal Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film, Jeff Kirschenbaum and franchise veteran Chris Morgan. Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman were also announced as co-showrunners.

Now that development has turned into an official series order, and that is a pretty major step for a franchise that has spent more than two decades primarily living on the big screen.

The original The Fast and the Furious arrived in 2001 and gradually transformed from a street-racing movie into a globe-trotting action franchise built around cars, impossible stunts and, of course, family. The films have collectively generated more than $7 billion at the worldwide box office, so Universal exploring another way to keep the franchise moving is hardly surprising.

The big question now is what kind of show Peacock is actually making. Will it follow completely new characters? Will we see familiar faces from the films pop in? And perhaps most importantly, how exactly do you translate Fast & Furious-level insanity into episodic television without blowing up the budget by Episode 3?

We are going to need answers.

For now, Peacock is keeping those story details parked in the garage, but the series order makes one thing official: the Fast & Furious universe is about to get a lot bigger.