EXCLUSIVE: Start those engines because the Fast & Furious franchise is coming to television.

Deadline understands that Peacock has greenlit its first television series based on the hit movie franchise, which has made more than $7B at the global box office over the last 25 years.

The series comes from Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman, who will write and serve as co-showrunners.

The project was one of a number announced at NBCUniversal’s Upfront event in May in New York by franchise star Vin Diesel, who will exec produce the series.

“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 at the Upfront. “And for the last decade, the desire has been for us to enter the TV space.”

Diesel said he came around on the idea after Universal Studios chief Donna Langley also took oversight of NBCUniversal’s TV operation last year.

“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,” he added.

The series is set to premiere in 2028. Fast Forever, the eleventh and final film in the franchise, is set for release on March 17, 2028.

It comes from Universal Television. Daniels and Coleman will exec produce alongside Diesel and One Race’s Sam Vincent, Original Film’s Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty and Jeff Kirschenbaum and Chris Morgan.

Daniels recently served as showrunner for Peacock’s PONIES, and has worked on series including Shades of Blue, Sons of Anarchy and NBC’s upcoming The Rockford Files reboot. Coleman has exec produced series including 9-1-1: Lone Star and also worked on Shades of Blue.

At the Upfronts, Diesel announced that that there were three other Fast & Furious series projects in the works; one comes from The Endgame’s Nick Wooton and House of the Dragon’s Charmaine DeGraté and the others come from Griselda showrunner Ingrid Escajeda and Lucifer showrunner Joe Henderson.

All of this comes as NBCUniversal is celebrating the 25^th anniversary of the franchise, which started with The Fast and the Furious in 2001 that starred Diesel as Dominic Toretto, Paul Walker as Brian O’Conner, Jordana Brewster as Mia and Michelle Rodriguez as Letty.

EXCLUSIVE: Shadow Lion, the company founded by NFL legend Tom Brady, is working on a new documentary chronicling Dubai Basketball’s championship rise.

The company has set Yalla, Dubai: From Startup to Championship, a documentary that follows the team from its launch in 2023 to becoming ABA League champions in their second full season.

Dubai Basketball, which was founded by Chairman Abdulla Saeed Juma Al Naboodah and General Manager Dejan Kamenjašević, won the ABA League title after defeating Partizan 3-1 in the finals in June.

The film features roughly 40 terabytes of archival material and newly captured footage from Dubai, Slovenia and beyond and will feature interviews with Abdulla Saeed Juma Al Naboodah, Kamenjašević, former Head Coach Aleksander Sekulić, current Head Coach Xavi Pascual, captain Klemen Prepelič, NBA veteran Dāvis Bertāns and Dubai Basketball’s Global Ambassador Tristan Thompson.

It is directed by Sami Khan (Starting 5), who exec produces alongside Shadow Lion’s Gilad Haas, Jeff Fine, Lior Haas, David Zabinsky and Philip Byron. Graham McKay and Dan Levy serve as co-executive producers.

“We’re excited to tell this extraordinary and largely untold story,” said Gilad Haas, co-founder of Shadow Lion. “At Shadow Lion, we’re drawn to stories that transcend the game itself, and Dubai Basketball is a remarkable example of that. This is a team built from the ground up by people who came together around a shared love of a sport they each grew up playing in different corners of the globe. The deeper you go, the more compelling the story becomes.”

Khan added, “Dubai Basketball’s story has all the elements of a great sports film – an impossible ambition, a group of outsiders, enormous setbacks and an improbable championship. But what struck me most is how personal this story is for the people who built and became part of this team. Their journey reflects something much larger about Dubai and the idea of coming from somewhere else to pursue a dream. It’s an honor to have the opportunity to tell that story.”

Dubai Basketball Chairman Abdulla Saeed Juma Al Naboodah said, “Dubai Basketball was created with a clear ambition: to build something for Dubai and that can reflect the values of Dubai on the international stage. Winning the ABA League in only our second season was an important moment for Dubai Basketball, but also another step in a much bigger journey. This documentary gives people the opportunity to see how that journey started and the work behind it.”

EXCLUSIVE: Author Casey Sherman, whose book Boston Strong was adapted into the 2016 feature film Patriots Day, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Bacon, has partnered with Midnight Lute Productions on a new book and feature film project, Vegas Strong.

The project will chronicle the worst mass shooting in American history at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017 and the “courage, compassion, and resilience that emerged in its aftermath”.

Much as Sherman did with Boston Strong, which he co-authored with Dave Wedge, Vegas Strong will focus on “the survivors, first responders, families, and community members whose lives were forever changed, and on those who came together to help one another heal”.

“I see so many similarities between the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings and the unspeakable tragedy that unfolded in Las Vegas,” said Sherman, speaking to Deadline on the anniversary of the killings. “I want to give a voice to all those who rushed into the fray to save lives, those who comforted and supported the families of the victims, and the survivors who refused to allow the actions of a madman to destroy their lives.”

In 2018, Sherman hosted more than 40 Las Vegas shooting survivors and family members of victims on a healing cruise in Germany. The experience gave Sherman a first-hand look at how the tragedy altered so many lives giving him a passion for their stories. The book will also devote several chapters to the Vegas Golden Knights and the role the NHL expansion team played in bringing the Las Vegas community together and giving residents something to cheer about during one of the city’s darkest times.

“The way the players played for something bigger than themselves during their inaugural season, ultimately reaching the Stanley Cup Final, reminds me of We Are Marshall,” Sherman said. “The organization went above and beyond to help the community heal.”

Sherman and Midnight Lute Productions plan to develop Vegas Strong as a feature film, weaving together the personal stories of October 1 survivors and first responders with the inaugural season of the Vegas Golden Knights.

“We feel Vegas Strong will be one of the most inspiring sports stories ever told,” said Midnight Lute producer Trent Othick. “The way the Golden Knights uplifted a broken community and did the unthinkable in their first season, opening the door for professional sports in Las Vegas, is exactly the kind of story we want to tell. Casey and I have been discussing it for years, and we feel now is the time as the Golden Knights enter their 10th season.”

Othick, a Las Vegas-based producer, has a personal connection to the October 1 tragedy, with family and friends directly affected by the shooting. He also helped Sherman organize the 2018 healing cruise. The company is led by Othick, ESPN and Fox Sports analyst Matt Muehlebach, former Fox Sports Productions President John Entz, and several former professional athletes. The company is backed by Las Vegas-based investment group LJM Associates, comprised of John Gaughan, Layne Marsh, and Blaine Tripp, as well as Arizona businessmen Jim Berwick, Josh Snider, Timothy Snider, and Jeff Brack.

Othick previously served as president of Go Productions, where he produced the Broadway run and national tour of A Bronx Tale, as well as feature films from Neil LaBute, Marcus Nispel, and others, while developing various TV projects. Before Go Productions, Othick was president of Insomnia Entertainment, where he partnered with former UFC owners Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta.

Sherman is the author of 20 books, including The Finest Hours, which was adapted into a 2016 Disney feature film starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck; James Patterson’s The Last Days of John Lennon; The Ice Bucket Challenge; 12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady’s Fight for Redemption; Helltown; and, most recently, The Killer and Frank Lloyd Wright. Sherman is currently an executive producer of the Hulu docuseries Hunting Whitey, based on his book and narrated by Ben Affleck, and he also stars in the NBC Peacock true crime documentary, Boston Strangler: Unheard Confession.

Sherman is represented by UTA. Midnight Lute Productions is represented by Matt Luber of Luber Roklin Entertainment and Ron Levin of Levin Law Corporation.