Peacock Orders Fast TV in the Franchise’s Farewell Year

Peacock ordered a live-action Fast & Furious series on October 1, 2026, aiming at a 2028 launch, the same year Universal has dated Fast Forever as the last film. Vin Diesel will executive produce. Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman will write and run the show for Universal Television. There is no title, no cast, and no plot yet.

The farewell movie has already slipped years past Fast X. The TV order fills a gap the films opened, and it keeps the saga on NBCUniversal’s streamer after Diesel spent a decade saying the movies were too precious for television.

Peacock Greenlights a Fast Series for 2028

The pickup is Peacock’s first live-action series from the franchise, which has taken more than $7 billion at the global box office across 25 years. Daniels, an executive producer on Peacock’s PONIES who also worked on Sons of Anarchy, Shades of Blue, and NBC’s The Rockford Files reboot, will share the writers’ room with Coleman, who executive produced 9-1-1: Lone Star and also came off 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. Moritz has produced the movies since the 2001 original. Morgan wrote most of the sequels. That is the same inner circle that has guarded Toretto’s crew on the big screen, now attached to a streaming series with no announced star.

Diesel first floated the move at NBCUniversal’s upfront on May 11, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall, with Jimmy Fallon beside him. He told the room the fans had wanted more stories for the legacy characters, and that the desire to enter television had sat there for a decade. The order that landed in October is that pitch, paid for.

The Finale That Would Not Stay in 2027

Fast Forever is the 11th mainline film and is dated for March 17, 2028. Fast X opened in the United States on May 19, 2023, which makes this the longest wait between mainline entries. The follow-up was first discussed as Fast X: Part 2, then as an April 2025 movie, then as a 2026 date, then as an April 2027 window, before Universal locked the current title and the 2028 slot in January 2026.

THE FAST FOREVER CALENDAR

1. May 19, 2023: Fast X opens in the United States and leaves Dominic Toretto and his son at a dam in Portugal.
2. January 2026: Universal dates the 11th film, now titled Fast Forever, for March 17, 2028.
3. May 11, 2026: Diesel tells advertisers Peacock is launching Fast shows, with Daniels and Coleman already named on the active one.
4. August 2026: Diesel says the movie is due to start shooting in December if he can meet the studio’s request, after four sets of writers and four years of development. Louis Leterrier, who finished Fast X, is attached to direct. Michael Lesslie wrote the script Diesel praised.
5. October 1, 2026: Peacock greenlights the live-action series for a 2028 premiere, with no episode order or air date attached.

In 2025 Diesel pushed back on talk that Universal wanted a smaller Fast Forever, fewer actors, and fewer globe-trotting set pieces. “No matter who’s writing the checks, this family answers to you,” he wrote, and promised the next film would honour what people love about Fast while taking them somewhere new. The series now sits on that same 2028 calendar, so the last movie and the first live-action show are being built as a pair, not as a clean goodbye.

Diesel has talked about bringing back Paul Walker’s Brian O’Conner, retired after Walker’s death in 2013, and he has said a role was written for footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. Those hints belong to the movie. The series still has no character list at all.

Diesel Waited Until Langley Ran Television

Diesel did not describe the TV move as a sudden idea. He described it as a delay with a condition. He said he waited until Universal Studios chief Donna Langley also oversaw NBCUniversal’s television operation, the point at which the films and the shows would answer to the same executive.

It became right when Donna Langley started to oversee it all, because that’s when I knew that the integrity of the characters, the international appeal, what makes us all feel like family would be protected in the TV space.

Vin Diesel, NBCUniversal 2026 Upfront

Peacock’s own write-up of that night quotes him saying he had to wait till it was right, and that it became right when Donna Langley started to oversee the whole operation. The corporate shape of the deal matches the speech. Universal Television is making the series for Peacock. Original Film, One Race, and the sequel writers stay in the credits. The “family” Diesel keeps invoking is also a production company chart.

That is why a 2028 series can exist beside a movie still called a finale. The films remain the prestige object. The show is how the same bosses keep the characters on a weekly schedule without putting another $340 million bet on a single opening weekend.

Four Universe Shows, One Paid Order

On that May stage Diesel went further than the streamer would. “The news that I have here today is that Peacock is launching four shows from the Fast and Furious universe,” he said. People inside Peacock said only one series was in active development, with the rest earlier at Universal Television. Five months later, only the Daniels and Coleman show has a series order.

THE OTHER FAST ROOMS

• The ordered show: Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman write and run the Peacock series, targeting 2028, with no logline beyond more to come.
• Wootton and DeGraté: Nick Wootton (The Endgame) and Charmaine DeGraté (House of the Dragon) have been developing a separate Fast script.
• Escajeda: Ingrid Escajeda, showrunner of Griselda, has another Universal Television take in early development.
• Henderson: Joe Henderson, who ran Lucifer, is on a fourth Fast project that has not been ordered.

A pairing drawn from Sons of Anarchy and 9-1-1: Lone Star is a specific choice. Those shows run on crews, loyalties, and weekly crises, not on a single 12-minute highway chase. If that is the template, Peacock is buying a crime-family drama that can use cars, not a two-hour Fast movie sliced into episodes. The other three rooms can wait to see whether this one holds an audience.

What Fast X Cost and What It Took In

Fast X took in $704,875,015 worldwide, with $146,126,015 of that in the United States and Canada, or 20.7% of the global total. It opened to $67,017,410 domestically. China added $139,546,059. Those are large numbers on paper, and they were not enough for a film with a $340 million production budget, before marketing.

THE BOX OFFICE DROP FROM THE PEAK

Statista’s August 2026 tally still lists Furious 7 as the franchise high at $1.515 billion worldwide. The Fate of the Furious followed at $1.236 billion. Fast X landed fifth among 2023’s worldwide releases and took in less than half of Furious 7. A theatrical machine that once cleared a billion dollars was being asked to finance spectacle on those terms, which is the math behind the delays, the writer changes, and a television order that does not need a $67 million Friday-to-Sunday.

The immediate objection to a 2026 series order is that nobody was asking for more Fast right now. The movies have been gone long enough for that hunger to cool, and the films had already left street racing for spies, dams, and globe-trotting set pieces. A weekly show is being asked to recover a tone the features abandoned, which is a hard brief for two writers who built their names on motorcycle clubs and first responders.

Netflix Already Aired 52 Fast Episodes

Live-action is the new part. Television is not. Fast & Furious Spy Racers, a DreamWorks Animation series, ran on Netflix from December 26, 2019, to December 17, 2021: six seasons and 52 episodes about Tony Toretto, a teenage cousin recruited as a spy racer. Diesel, Moritz, and Morgan executive produced that show too. It ended four years before this Peacock order, on a rival streamer, in a rating aimed at families.

Peacock’s May post framed the new series as the first time the franchise comes to Peacock as an original, which is accurate and narrow. Diesel’s “we are very precious about these movies” line sits beside a children’s cartoon that already used the name, the cousin, and the same producers. The preciousness was about live-action Toretto, the theatrical brand, and who would control it. Langley taking television was the internal answer. Ordering the show for 2028, beside Fast Forever, is the public one.

Spy Racers also showed the limit of that earlier experiment. It never had to open a $340 million movie, and it never had to close the Fast X dam. It could run Tony around the world and stop. A live-action Peacock series that shares a year with the supposed last film has to decide whether it sits before that ending, after it, or in a lane that never touches Dom at all. Nobody has said which.

A Streamer That Lives on Games and Reality

Peacock did not get to a first profitable quarter on car movies. Comcast’s results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, put the service at 48 million paid Peacock subscribers after 2 million net additions, with $189 million in EBITDA against a $101 million loss a year earlier, a $290 million swing, on $1.9 billion in revenue versus $1.2 billion. The company named the NBA playoffs, the FIFA World Cup, and Love Island USA as the drivers.

PEACOCK’S 2026 BASELINE

• Paid reach: 48 million subscribers at the end of the second quarter, up 2 million in three months.
• First profit: $189 million in EBITDA, after a $101 million loss in the same quarter of 2025.
• Hit mix: Love Island USA season 8 was the No. 1 U.S. streaming title last summer and Peacock’s most-watched original season; The Five-Star Weekend became its No. 1 scripted series by overall reach.
• Sports into other shows: 40% of Love Island USA viewers also watched World Cup coverage on Peacock, and NBA viewers spent 86% of hours with non-sports content, according to Matt Strauss, chairman of NBCUniversal Media Group.

Strauss has said live sports and events bring people through the door, and that entertainment, news, and a deep library give them a reason to stay. A Fast series is that second job. It is also a bet that a theatrical brand which now costs $340 million a film can live as weekly catalogue the way Law & Order already does on the same platforms. YouTube Premium is due to bundle Peacock’s ad-supported tier in early 2027, which would put any 2028 Fast show in front of a rented audience, not only the 48 million who already pay.

WHAT WE KNOW

• The order: Peacock has greenlit one live-action Fast & Furious series from Universal Television for a 2028 premiere.
• The bosses: Daniels and Coleman write and run it; Diesel, Vincent, Moritz, Shetty, Kirschenbaum, and Morgan executive produce.
• The movie: Fast Forever remains dated March 17, 2028, as the 11th mainline film, with Leterrier attached and a Lesslie script.

WHAT IS UNCONFIRMED

• The show itself: no title, no cast, no episode count, no plot, and no word on whether Diesel appears on screen.
• The other rooms: the Wootton, DeGraté, Escajeda, and Henderson projects remain in development with no orders.
• The overlap: nobody has said whether the series leads into Fast Forever, follows it, or ignores the film timeline.

Fast Forever still has to be shot. The series still has to be written. Peacock has the order, the producers, and a 2028 target that collides with a finale the studio has already moved more than once. The family that would not go to television is now a streaming original, and the last movie has not yet started its December camera days.