‘Fast & Furious’ TV series coming to Peacock streaming service

A Fast & Furious TV series has been greenlit at streaming service Peacock ahead of the final movie, Fast Forever. The original The Fast & The Furious movie was released in 2001 and starred Vin Diesel as a street racing criminal opposite Paul Walker as an FBI officer sent to investigate his crimes. It spawned nine sequels and a handful of spin-offs with the final movie, Fast Forever, currently due to release on March 17, 2028. Earlier this year, Diesel said a number of Fast & Furious projects were in the works, including a TV show. “As you all know, we are very precious about these movies but over the last decade, we’ve realised that the fans have wanted more, they wanted us to expand the legacy characters, their stories. And for the last decade, the desire has been for us to enter the TV space,” he told the crowd at NBCUniversal’s Upfront event. Now Deadline has reported that the series has been greenlit at Peacock. There’s been no announcement about cast but Diesel will serve as executive producer on the project, which is being written by Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman. The show is expected to launch in 2028. The same year Fast Forever will hit cinemas, after being del...