After 11 Years, CBS Vampire Comedy Eternally Yours Finally Premieres
Eleven years after they sold the first pilot, a test episode used to sell a series, Joe Port and Joe Wiseman finally got their vampire comedy Eternally Yours to air on CBS.
The single-camera series, shot like a film with no studio audience, premiered Thursday, Oct. 8 from 8:30-9:02 p.m. ET/PT and joined the network's Thursday-night line-up, according to CBS. New episodes stream on Paramount+ after broadcast Paramount Press Express.
Port and Wiseman are the creators of the CBS comedy Ghosts. On Eternally Yours they serve as showrunners, the executives in charge of day-to-day creative decisions, and executive producers alongside Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum and Jason Wang Paramount Press Express. The series is produced by CBS Studios.
The premise is simple. Two vampires have been married for 500 years and are raising a very modern family Deadline.
Ed Weeks plays Charles, the ancient head of the family, with Allegra Edwards as his wife Liz. Helen J. Shen plays their daughter Emma and Parker Young plays their son Jesse. Rose Abdoo plays Phyllis, the human daughter-in-law, while Shylo Molina and Tristan Michael Brown play Henry and Mort, half-human, half-vampire grandchildren. Jaren Lewison plays Max, Emma's boyfriend, who becomes a vampire in the pilot Deadline.
The premiere was written by Port and Wiseman and directed by Trent O'Donnell, who was tapped to direct the pilot. Jeff Hiller has joined the series in a guest role.
The road to air was long. Port and Wiseman sold the Eternally Yours pilot to CBS more than 11 years before its premiere, and the pilot script that finally filmed stayed very close to the script they wrote all those years ago. The team filmed in Montreal in winter to realise it.
What makes this stand out is how little changed. Pilots are often rewritten, recast or shelved. This one waited. For viewers, that means the family arriving on Thursday nights is much the same one the writers first pitched over a decade ago.
