The Fast & Furious franchise is officially heading deeper into television. During NBCUniversal’s Upfront presentation, franchise star and producer Vin Diesel confirmed that multiple live-action series set within the Fast & Furious universe are currently in development for Peacock and Universal Television.
According to Diesel, the expansion is much bigger than fans may have initially expected.
“Peacock is launching four shows in the Fast and the Furious universe,” Diesel announced during the presentation.
While NBCUniversal has officially confirmed at least one live-action Fast & Furious series is currently in development at Peacock, sources indicate additional projects are in various stages of development across Universal Television. The move marks the franchise’s most ambitious expansion beyond the feature films to date.
The first series is being executive produced by Diesel alongside longtime franchise producer Neal Moritz, Chris Morgan, Jeff Kirschenbaum, Pavun Shetty, and Samantha Vincent through One Race and Original Film. Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman are attached to write the pilot. Daniels recently received a straight-to-series order from NBC for a new adaptation of The Rockford Files, further solidifying his growing relationship with NBCUniversal.
The projects arrive as Fast & Furious celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, with the original film receiving a special screening at the Cannes Film Festival attended by Diesel and Moritz. Across eleven films, the franchise has generated more than $7 billion worldwide and remains one of Universal’s biggest global properties.
Diesel acknowledged during the presentation that expanding into television had been a long-debated move internally, especially given how protective the team has been over the franchise’s core identity and characters.
“As you all know, we are very precious about these movies,” Diesel said. “But over the last decade, we’ve realized that the fans have wanted more, they wanted us to expand the legacy characters, their stories.”
He also credited NBCUniversal Entertainment & Studios chair Donna Langley’s broader oversight of television operations as a major factor in finally moving forward with the expansion.
“That’s when I knew that the integrity of the characters, the international appeal, what makes us all feel like family will be protected in the TV space,” Diesel added.
No official plot details or casting information have been revealed yet, and it remains unclear whether the projects will directly involve existing film characters or introduce entirely new stories within the universe. However, Diesel’s comments strongly suggest the shows will expand on legacy characters and storylines fans already know.
The Fast & Furious franchise has experimented with television before through Netflix and DreamWorks Animation’s animated series Fast & Furious Spy Racers, which Diesel also executive produced. These new projects, however, represent the franchise’s first major push into live-action serialized storytelling.
The television expansion also arrives ahead of the final chapter of the film saga. Universal previously confirmed that Fast Forever, the concluding installment of the main franchise, is scheduled to release March 17, 2028.
For NBCUniversal and Peacock, the move signals another major attempt to build large-scale franchise television around recognizable blockbuster IP as the streaming competition continues to intensify.
About Fast & Furious Saga
Over the course of eleven films that have stoked passion in an ever-expanding audience and have earned more than $7 billion at the worldwide box office, Universal Pictures’ record-smashing, homegrown Fast & Furious Saga has become the studio’s most-profitable and longest-running franchise. Across social media platforms, the fan following for the movies and cast has grown into the biggest of any active franchise. Following 2017’s The Fate of the Furious, which debuted in theaters as the biggest global opening of all time, the blockbuster franchise expanded to a multitude of offerings – from toys and video games to an animated series and the hit spin-off title, Hobbs & Shaw. In 2026, the franchise celebrates its 25thanniversary and Universal announced that a thrilling new chapter—Fast Forever—will race into theaters March 17, 2028.
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