CBS is sinking its fangs into another undead comedy with Eternally Yours, a new single-camera vampire rom-com from the creative team behind Ghosts, and the network is already teasing the series premiere with an official synopsis and image gallery ahead of its October 8 debut.
The network has slated Eternally Yours to launch on Thursday, October 8, 2026, in the 8:30 PM ET/PT slot as part of its fall primetime lineup, pairing the supernatural comedy with returning series like Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage on the same night. The premiere will also be available to stream on Paramount+ after its broadcast debut, keeping in step with CBS’s current strategy of using its streaming platform as a next-day home for its originals. Coverage from outlets including ScreenRant and BroadwayWorld has framed the show as a key piece of CBS’s genre-heavy Thursday schedule, giving viewers a one-two punch of comfort-food sitcoms with a supernatural twist.
Created by Ghosts showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, Eternally Yours is described as “an eternal love story about two vampires who have been married for five hundred years, and their struggles to accept the human who is dating their daughter.” Port and Wiseman once again team up with longtime collaborators Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum, and Jason Wang, who executive produce through the Tannenbaum Company alongside the duo. The road to series has been unusually long: the project began life as a vampire love story pilot ordered by CBS, and later progressed through a full development room before finally receiving a series greenlight more than a decade after its initial conception, a journey highlighted in multiple trade reports.
Early coverage from Entertainment Weekly reveals that the series centers on a centuries-old vampire couple, played by Ed Weeks and Allegra Edwards, whose once-passionate relationship has cooled after five centuries of marriage. The characters, named Charles and Liz, embody the “eternal couple” at the heart of the show, with their undead ennui disrupted when their daughter brings home a human boyfriend, forcing them to confront both modern society and their own relationship issues. ScreenRant has characterized the series as a “companion” to Ghosts rather than a direct spinoff, trading a haunted mansion full of spirits for a bloodsucking family sitcom that plays with similar themes of immortality, found family, and culture clash.
According to the official logline circulated by CBS and reiterated in reports from outlets like TVLine and Bleeding Cool, the premiere episode sets up the core dynamic by introducing the mortal boyfriend into this tightly knit vampire household, putting the eternal couple’s prejudices and fears under a comedic microscope. The newly released image gallery for the series opener, highlighted in Bleeding Cool’s preview, leans into that contrast visually, juxtaposing gothic flourishes—period costumes, dimly lit interiors, and centuries-old trappings—with the awkward energy of a modern meet-the-parents scenario. The S01E01 overview suggests that the pilot will balance high-concept supernatural elements with grounded relationship humor, in line with the tonal blend that made Ghosts a breakout hit for CBS.
Industry coverage has noted that Eternally Yours arrives at a time when vampire stories are once again resurging across film and television, but this time skewing more comedic than brooding. By focusing on a long-married vampire couple whose romance has gone stale, the show aims to put a fresh spin on well-worn tropes, emphasizing domestic boredom and family friction over apocalyptic stakes, a direction that aligns it more closely with series like What We Do in the Shadows than with traditional vampire dramas. For CBS, the series represents another bet that genre-tinged, heart-forward comedies can attract both mainstream audiences and genre fans, especially when anchored by proven showrunners and a familiar undead hook.
With a premiere date locked, a trailer circulating, and now a detailed first-look at the inaugural episode, Eternally Yours is positioned as CBS’s next big supernatural sitcom swing, offering fans of Ghosts and vampire lore alike a new undead family to obsess over when the series debuts on October 8.
