New 'Fast & Furious' TV Shows Are Coming to Peacock
- On Monday, franchise star Vin Diesel announced at the NBCUniversal upfront presentation in New York that Peacock is officially developing a live-action series based on the Fast & Furious movie franchise.
- Spanning 11 films, the Fast & Furious franchise has earned more than $7 billion at the worldwide box office, with the final chapter, Fast Forever, scheduled for release on March 17, 2028.
- Writers Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman are attached to pen the pilot and serve as co-showrunners, with Diesel executive producing alongside Sam Vincent, Neal Moritz, Pavun Shetty, Jeff Kirschenbaum, and Chris Morgan.
- While Diesel claimed four shows are in development, sources indicate the streamer currently has only one series set up, with the others in various stages of development at Universal Television.
- Following the announcement, some fans expressed skepticism on social media about expanding the long-running series, questioning the necessity of developing additional backstories for the established universe.
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Vin Diesel announced this Monday in New York that the Fast and Furious universe will have an expansion on television. During the presentation of NBCUniversal's upfronts, the actor said Peacock would launch four franchise-based shows, although media reports such as Variety and Deadline specified that only one series is formally confirmed on the platform and that the others are in different stages within Universal Television. During the presentati…
'Fast and Furious' Is Moving to TV — What Does This Mean For the Final Movie?
Moviestore/Shutterstock“For more than 100 years, there’s one place where we all came together to be entertained, to escape, to go somewhere new: the movies.” These wise words from Vin Diesel reminded fans what a true movie star looked like in 2021, a year when the very future of movies itself was in question. (It also sparked plenty of memes and an SNL parody.) But at NBCU’s Upfronts presentation, Vin Diesel was singing a different song when he …
The Fast & Furious series is continuing on television. Actor Vin Diesel, who stars in the film series, announced this on the Tonight Show. Network Peacock is reportedly developing four different series.
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