The Long Road to Production: How 'Eternally Yours' Became a Ghosts Companion Series

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Being greenlit was an 11-year process for Ghosts' companion series .

The upcoming vampire comedy, which will debut on CBS during the 2026-2027 network television season, comes from Ghosts showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman. Along with the same creative team, both series have a similar blend of heartfelt humor and the supernatural, with Eternally Yours' being about a longtime vampire couple living in present-day Seattle and figuring out if they can save their struggling marriage.

Per , it took 11 years for Eternally Yours to receive a full series order, as the pilot script was first written in 2015. Port and Wiseman had been writing together since their time as assistants on the UPN show Dilbert in 1999. They came up with the idea for their vampire comedy in 2015 and collaborated with Two and a Half Men executive producers Eric and Kim Tannenbaum. Port shares why they were drawn to the idea, while CBS Studios' head of comedy Kate Adler explains why the network was initially interested in the project:

Joe Port: We started talking about writing partnerships and the idea of a marriage and people stuck together forever, so the idea of a marriage on steroids, like vampires who never die, and what it would be like to be truly together forever is how we came up with that.

Kate Adler: What we loved most about the kernel of this idea, which is a couple trapped in an endless marriage. It came from Joe and Joe, as a writing team, feeling like a married couple, and we loved the fact that it came in with the Tannenbaums, producers who not only are married, but work together. It was super relatable to just about everybody, married or otherwise, but we loved that it came from such a real place.

Eternally Yours was set at CBS for development in September 2015, but the single-camera comedy was passed on for the 2016-2017 season, and only multi-camera comedies were picked up that year. CBS Studios sent the finished pilot script to TV Land and various network, broadcast, and cable options, but none picked it up.

No further developments occurred until 2019, when network comedy writer and producer Andrew Reich reached out to Port and Wiseman. He is a host of the Dead Pilots Society podcast, which does table reads for pilot scripts developed by studios and networks that were never produced.

Port and Wiseman happily agreed for the pilot to be done on the podcast, and Reich suggested that Ed Weeks read for Charles, the male lead vampire. Weeks is the same actor who will be playing the role in the televised series. Instead of Allegra Edwards, who is playing the female vampire lead Liz, Briga Heelan read for the part at the time. The table read went well, with Port and Reich explaining how it left a lasting impression.

Joe Port: It was a fun night, and it was very useful to us. In the years to come, we started using that recorded table read as a calling card for Eternally Yours.

Andrew Reich: There’s pilots we’ve done that I think are great, but I totally see why they didn’t get on, they’re just too out there, there’s other issues, but they’re still worth doing a table read of. But this was one where it was like, oh, this was so good, and I can totally see it as a show.

In addition to the table read, 2019 was an important year for Port and Wiseman, as they were chosen by CBS to adapt the as a single-camera comedy. Ghosts got its pilot order in January 2026 and the recording of Eternally Yours' table read was released to the public on March 17, 2026, just as global lockdown was beginning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Positive reception to the table read led to CBS Studios trying to repackage Eternally Yours as an animated comedy.

In 2026, Port and Wiseman were busy working on Ghosts, which by then had received a full series order and debuted in October of that year. In a trailer from the set of Ghosts via Zoom, they took two pitch meetings for the animated reworking of Eternally Yours. No one wanted to take the show, though, as another vampire comedy, and received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series. Looking back, Port is happy with this result, though.

The story of this pilot, and series now, is that things worked out for a reason. Even as we were pitching it as the animated thing, we were starting to do Ghosts. It hadn’t premiered yet but once that came out and did well, I was kind of relieved we hadn’t sold it as this animated thing, because I was like, this seems like such a good Ghosts companion. It seems like there’s an appetite for this single-camera genre, comedy with heart, for network TV now.

April 2026 saw CBS' Studios interest in the project actively resume thanks to Amy Reisenbach, CBS Entertainment President, who championed Eternally Yours' pilot script. This led to a development room being commissioned in August 2026 and a pilot order in July 2026. Because of the 2019 table read, Weeks and Heelan were brought in to audition as Charles and Liz, with Weeks and Edwards ultimately landing the two lead roles. Edwards previously starred in .

Allegra Edwards, Parker Young, Ed Weeks in a photo from Eternally Yours, with Edwards and Weeks showing fangs

Now that Eternally Yours has been picked up for a full series order, Adler explains that it "was a project that never went away, it was merely hibernating. We were always deeply in love with it, I guess you could say our love was eternal. We always promise creators we won’t give up on their projects, and we remain hopeful that a great project will ultimately find a home. Obviously, no one knew this one would take 11 years!”

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