Vin Diesel is bringing four 'Fast and Furious' TV shows to Peacock

Peacock is about to get fast. And furious.

NBCUniversal's streaming service is already the home of the 11 films from the "Fast and Furious" franchise, and now Vin Diesel and his speeding muscle cars will get into the world of TV shows.

Diesel made the announcement May 11 at NBC's upfronts presentation, an annual showcase where TV networks and streaming services show off their upcoming programming to to advertisers. As the title of the franchise suggests, Peacock will not be getting into the "Fast" franchise slowly.

"Peacock is launching four shows in the 'Fast and the Furious' universe," Diesel said on the stage alongside "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon in New York City. "As you all know, we are very precious about these movies 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 said. “And for the last decade, the desire has been for us to enter the TV space."

“The integrity of the characters, the international appeal, what makes us all feel like family will be protected in the TV space,” Diesel, who is notoriously protective of the franchise that made him a superstar, added.

The new TV shows, not yet titled, will be produced by Diesel and created by Wolfe Coleman ("Shades of Blue") and Mike Daniels ("Sons of Anarchy"), who is launching a "Rockford Files" reboot on NBC this fall starring David Boreanaz. Diesel did not give any details about whether the shows would feature new or returning characters, or what kind of stories they would include. No official dates have been provided for the series' premieres.

The "Fast and Furious" franchise originally made its mark with crazy car races, epic fisticuffs, super-macho male egos and scantily clad women dancing seductively in slo-mo. But since 2001’s "The Fast and the Furious" introduced Vin Diesel’s street tough Dominic Toretto and the late Paul Walker’s cop/criminal/family man Brian O’Conner, the series of action flicks have amassed over $7 billion dollars at the global box office for Universal Studios (owned by Comcast, as are NBC and Peacock). Universal calls it the studio’s "most-profitable and longest-running franchise."

The films have featured a litany of major stars including Diesel, Paul Walker (who died while filming "Furious 7" in 2013), Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Gal Gadot, Ludacris, Tyrese Gibson and Jason Momoa. A final film in the main saga is expected in March 2028.

Contributing: Brian Truitt, USA TODAY