Peacock’s Fast Series Shares 2028 With Fast Forever

Peacock has ordered the first live-action Fast & Furious television series, aiming it at 2028, the same year Universal has dated Fast Forever. The streamer confirmed the series order on October 1, with Vin Diesel as an executive producer and with no plot, title, or cast attached.

Universal is not treating the next film as a clean ending. It is lining up a second Fast product for the same calendar, while three other Fast TV scripts remain in earlier stages.

Peacock Ordered One Show, Not Four

On May 11 at NBCUniversal’s upfront at Radio City Music Hall, Diesel stood with Jimmy Fallon and told advertisers Peacock was launching four shows from the Fast and Furious universe. Peacock’s own position that day was narrower: one live-action series was in active development at Universal Television, and other Fast ideas sat further back.

The October 1 order is that first series, from Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman, who will write the pilot, co-showrun, and executive produce. Diesel executive produces with Sam Vincent of One Race, Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film, Jeff Kirschenbaum, and Chris Morgan of Chris Morgan Productions. Universal Television, part of Universal Studio Group, is the studio. Peacock wants the show on in 2028. It has not set a night or a month.

Diesel’s four-show line was not invented on the spot. Two days after the upfront, the other three packages were named as early development work at the same studio, with no bake-off and with Peacock free to pick one of them, all of them, or none. The October order did not cancel those scripts. It also did not promote them.

FOUR FAST TV PACKAGES

Wootton’s credits include The Endgame, Law & Order, and NYPD Blue. DeGraté has written on Daisy Jones & The Six, House of the Dragon, and The Acolyte. Escajeda ran Griselda and produced Silo. Henderson ran Lucifer and worked on White Collar. All four packages sit in the same street-racing, heist, and spy world. None has a public logline beyond Diesel’s stage claim that fans wanted legacy characters expanded.

The Same Year as Fast Forever

Fast Forever is billed as the 11th and final mainline film, dated for March 17, 2028. That is the same year Peacock wants the series. The overlap is the plan, not an accident of the calendar. A show that arrives beside a “last” movie is how a studio keeps the brand in living rooms after it has told theaters the saga is closing.

The film is still catching up to that date. At a 25th anniversary screening of The Fast and the Furious on August 17, Diesel said, “We start shooting in December, if I can make good on the request from the studio.” He said the script had gone through four sets of writers and four years of development. Louis Leterrier, who is slated to return as director, said around the same period that he had not yet read the draft and that there would be an ending.

The theatrical line has already cooled from its peak. NBCUniversal says the films have generated over $7 billion globally. The Numbers, a box-office tracker, puts the Fast X worldwide box office at $727,696,316 and still lists Furious 7 at $1,510,065,395. A finale that expensive, this late, is a harder sell than a weekly show that can live on the company’s streamer.

FROM THE UPFRONT TO 2028

1. May 11, 2026: Diesel tells the Radio City upfront that Peacock is launching four Fast shows.
2. May 13, 2026: The other three writer packages are identified as early Universal Television development.
3. August 17, 2026: Diesel says Fast Forever is due to start shooting in December 2026.
4. October 1, 2026: Peacock orders the Daniels and Coleman series for a 2028 premiere target.
5. December 2026: Fast Forever is scheduled to begin principal photography, if Diesel meets the studio request.
6. March 17, 2028: Fast Forever is dated for theaters, with the series still aimed at the same year.

People talking about the order keep landing on that double 2028, not on the press-release language. A movie billed as the end and a series billed as a beginning are being asked to share a year, and the film has not even started.

Who Is Writing the First Fast Series?

Daniels and Coleman are television crime writers, not the people who built the later Fast movies on the page. They previously worked together on Shades of Blue. Daniels’s other credits include Sons of Anarchy, Peacock’s Ponies, and NBC’s coming Rockford Files reboot. Coleman executive produced 9-1-1: Lone Star. Chris Morgan, who wrote several of the films, is on the series as a producer, which keeps movie continuity in the room without putting him on the scripts day to day.

Diesel has said he waited to take Fast to television until Universal Studios chief Donna Langley also oversaw NBCUniversal’s TV operation.

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.

Vin Diesel, at NBCUniversal’s May upfront

He also said fans had spent a decade asking the company to expand legacy characters, and that “for the last decade, the desire has been for us to enter the TV space.” The October order is the first time that desire has a series pickup. It is still not a description of an episode.

Whether Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, or anyone else from the films will appear has not been said. Diesel’s May comments pointed at legacy characters and corners of the franchise beyond the movies. That is a producing brief, not a cast list. The series can run without him on camera. It cannot run without him in the credits, because the order is built around One Race and the same producing group that shepherds the films.

Netflix Already Ran Fast on Television

Live-action is the new part. Fast has already been a TV show. Netflix’s animated Fast & Furious Spy Racers ran six seasons and 52 episodes from December 26, 2019, to a Homecoming finale on December 17, 2021. DreamWorks Animation Television made it. Diesel, Morgan, and Moritz executive produced that series too. The hero was Tony Toretto, framed as Dominic Toretto’s cousin, recruited with friends to infiltrate a criminal racing circuit.

SPY RACERS SEASONS

• Los Angeles: Eight episodes, December 26, 2019.
• Rio: Eight episodes, October 9, 2020.
• Sahara: Eight episodes, December 26, 2020.
• Mexico: Eight episodes, April 16, 2021.
• South Pacific: Eight episodes, August 13, 2021.
• Homecoming: Twelve episodes, December 17, 2021, and the end of the series.

Spy Racers was a kids’ adventure with the family slogan bolted on. It ended four years before this Peacock order. The gap is why the live-action pickup reads late to anyone who wanted Fast on television during the Furious 7 run, when the movies still behaved like event television already. A weekly show can go back to street racing and garage talk the films abandoned for super-spy set pieces. That is the job Daniels and Coleman are being hired to attempt, given their cop-and-crew résumés, and it is also the job nobody has seen on the page.

What the Series Still Has Not Said

Peacock has a series. It does not have a public story. The 2028 target is a window, not a premiere date, and Fast Forever’s March 17 date is the only hard mark on that year. Until a title, a setting, and a cast exist, the order is a production slot sitting next to a movie that is itself still waiting on cameras.

WHAT WE KNOW

• The order: Peacock picked up a live-action Fast series on October 1, produced by Universal Television.
• The date: The streamer is aiming at 2028, the same year as Fast Forever on March 17.
• The room: Daniels and Coleman write and showrun; Diesel, Vincent, Moritz, Shetty, Kirschenbaum, and Morgan executive produce.
• The other scripts: Wootton and DeGraté, Escajeda, and Henderson remain in early development with no series orders.

WHAT IS UNCONFIRMED

• Story and title: No logline, time period, or series name has been released.
• Cast: No film regular has been confirmed to appear, including Diesel.
• The movie link: Peacock has not said whether the show sits before, after, or beside Fast Forever.
• The December shoot: Fast Forever’s start of photography is still a Diesel promise tied to a studio request, not a wrapped production.

That blank space is the risk inside the hedge. A 2028 Fast year only works if both products exist. Right now one is an order and the other is a script Diesel says made him cry, which Leterrier had not read in August.

A Coaster Opened Before the Cameras Did

The original film had its June 22, 2001 theatrical release, and NBCUniversal has spent 2026 marking 25 years around parks and television rather than around a new movie. Universal Studios Hollywood’s Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift is now open, a high-speed outdoor coaster tied to what the company still calls an 11-film franchise, a count that includes the Hobbs & Shaw spin-off. Fast Forever, in that math, is the next mainline film after ten numbered saga titles.

The ride is already selling tickets. The series is ordered. The “final” movie is aiming at December cameras for a March 17, 2028 release. Diesel’s four-show pitch is still one pickup and three waiting scripts. Peacock gets a Fast title to put on a 2028 slate. Universal gets a way to keep the brand on a streamer if Fast Forever is actually an ending, and a second screen if it is not.

The first live-action Fast series now has a studio, two showrunners, and a year. It does not have a story, and the film that year is named after still has to start.