'Ghosts' Creators Drop a New CBS Sitcom That's a Spooky Good Time | Review

Published Sep 25, 2026, 9:01 AM EDT Sam is a News Editor for Collider and a known lover of all things sci-fi and horror. She spends her days editing news stories, coodrinating exclusives, and working closely with writers to deliver their best work. When she's not editing the daily news, she can be found hanging out with her wife (they're probably rewatching Ghosts for the millionth time), tweeting about romance, and cooking something delicious while belting to Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter's latest hits at the top of her lungs. While Ghosts Season 6 is still a month away, showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman are about to deliver their second supernatural sitcom for CBS. The new series, titled Eternally Yours, will premiere on October 8 in Ghosts’ usual Thursday night slot after the Young Sheldon spin-off Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage. Though it continues to be baffling that CBS isn’t pairing the series with its spooky older sister, after seeing the first episode, it’s clear Port and Wiseman haven’t lost their touch. Eternally Yours actually serves as a bit of a full-circle moment for the showrunner duo. Port and Wiseman initially pitched the vampire series to CBS over 10 years ago, and while the network chose not to move forward with it at the time, that pitch made them the perfect team to bring the U.S. adaptation of Ghosts to life. Flash forward a decade: Ghosts is officially the most-watched sitcom in America, and its immense success on CBS has allowed Port and Wiseman to unearth their 11-year-old pilot and expand their hauntingly hilarious world. What Is 'Eternally Yours' About? Eternally Yours is an ensemble comedy anchored by a central couple and the eccentric group of undead weirdos they’ve turned into their own little family. At the heart of the series are Charles (Ed Weeks) and Liz (Allegra Edwards), a pair of vampires whose marriage has gone cold after 500 years together. A flashback to when Charles and Liz first fell in love provides a stark contrast to their dull and lifeless marriage five centuries later. Weeks and Edwards have great chemistry; rooting for them to remember why they fell in love in the first place is just as much fun as it is to watch them bicker. Weeks brings years of sitcom experience to the table from his time on The Mindy Project. He relishes his lines and spits them out with all the captivating intensity of an actual vampire. Meanwhile, Edwards also has an impressive sitcom resume, with her time on Upload and her guest role on Ghosts making her a perfect fit for Eternally Yours. She carries Liz with an excellent balance of regality and complete silliness that makes her very fun to watch. While Eternally Yours states vampires can’t have children with each other, the series also introduces Charles and Liz’s adopted daughter Emma (Helen J. Shen). It’s Emma’s love life that provides the impetus for the inciting incident of the series as, after a century of dating other vampires (and possibly more supernatural beings), Emma finds herself falling for someone her parents will absolutely not approve of: a human. Enter Max (Jaren Lewison), your classic Nice Guy — in a Pete Martino from Ghosts way, rather than a Bear from Obsession way. Max is exceedingly earnest; he genuinely cares about Emma in a way that makes it clear why she’s so protective of their relationship. Max serves as a good everyman for the audience’s entry point into this world, and even acts as its narrator at the beginning and end of the episode. When their coven’s vampire nature puts the whole family on a collision course with Max, Emma must come clean and reveal her human boyfriend to her parents. Liz and Emma have an excellent mother-daughter dynamic that exemplifies the love at the heart of this weird little family. When Liz sees the beginnings of her own relationship with Charles in the relationship Emma has with Max, it opens the door up for both of these love stories to unfold alongside each other over the course of the season. The chemistry between Max and Emma is much more wholesome and sweet when compared to Charles and Liz’s lust and loathing, giving the show a solid balance between its main couples. 'Eternally Yours' Bites off Slightly More Than It Can Chew Image via Bertrand Calmeau/CBS Somewhere in the middle of those two relationships lies the show’s third couple, and the other family filling out their coven. Commitment-phobe (or commitment-holic, depending on how you look at it) vampire Jesse (Parker Young) has a habit of marrying human women and simply keeping his true nature hidden from them until they croak. The only problem? Humans are living longer than ever, creating a visually apparent age gap between the eternally mid-thirties gym bro and his blushing bride Phyllis (Rose Abdoo) as she ages naturally into her 60s. While this relationship certainly has the potential to be one of the show's most compelling if Port and Wiseman play their cards right, it currently has one big hang-up that can only go on for so long — both within the universe and the writing itself. Among the vampire powers introduced in the pilot, one of Jesse’s gives him a true get out of jail free card: he has the ability to alter human memories, and unfortunately he’s been using this trick on his wife for decades. While the bit is played for laughs in the pilot, it’s one that will get old very quickly and limit what Abdoo can do with her character if it persists throughout the series. Jesse and Phyllis also have two half-vampire sons who fit into the classic nerd/cool guy archetypes. Though they’re the least developed duo of the bunch, Mort (Tristan Michael Brown) and Henry (Shylo Molona) round out the coven with some solid comedic potential. 'Eternally Yours' Is a Delicious Companion Series to 'Ghosts' Beyond its coven of couples, Eternally Yours is unafraid to poke a little fun at itself — and the genre it occupies — with everything from jokes about the accuracy of Twilight to which vampire tropes are real and which ones are insulting stereotypes. The series is much less absurdist than What We Do In The Shadows, but this may also serve as a double-edged sword and turn off audiences who find these modern-day bloodsuckers a little too tame when compared to their genre compatriots. The pilot episode spends a not insignificant amount of time explaining certain vampire rules, like the fact that divorce is illegal — a rule enforced by the threat of a vampire council arriving to personally drive a stake through the hearts of any undead couple wishing for a way out. While this explains why Charles and Liz are still together, when combined with a handful of other instances, it makes some of the dialogue feel very exposition-heavy and over-explained. Certain moments are a bit stiff and unnatural when characters explain things to each other that they both already know. This isn’t an uncommon issue for pilot episodes, which carry the uphill battle of establishing a universe. One other minor drawback for the series is that the full ensemble doesn’t quite gel together as swiftly as Ghosts did; however, each of the duos sing well enough that the rest of those dynamics should follow easily with more episodes. Beyond these brief awkward moments, the show delivers consistent laughs in the same way audiences have come to expect from Ghosts over the years. From the central home’s rich set design to several familiar faces filling out the cast, Ghosts fans will feel right at home with Eternally Yours. The series even employs similar flashbacks into the very long lives of its main characters for more lush and elaborate punchlines for certain jokes, making the world feel appropriately lived in. While similar archetypes are at play in both ensembles, Eternally Yours does its due diligence not to copy Ghosts beat for beat, giving the audience just enough overlap to feel cozy rather than complacent. Eternally Yours may not be a perfect pilot, but with its spooky romcom premise, it has the potential to become another smash hit for Port and Wiseman. Eternally Yours premieres on CBS on October 8 at 8:30 PM ET and will be available to stream on Paramount+. Release Date October 8, 2026 Network CBS Showrunner Joe Port, Joe Wiseman Directors Trent O'Donnell Cast The Eternally Yours pilot delivers a delicious new sitcom that serves as a hilariously haunting companion series to Ghosts from shared showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman. Creator(s) Joe Port, Joe Wiseman Pros & Cons Ed Weeks and Allegra Edwards are fang-tastic as the vampire rom-com's central couple. Love is at the heart of every storyline in Eternally Yours. The jokes, structure, and supernatural elements make Eternally Yours a fitting companion to Ghosts. Joe Port and Joe Wiseman have not lost their touch when it comes to cozy comfort TV. Some of the dialogue is too exposition heavy leading to stiff or unnatural moments. Jesse erasing Phyllis' memory is a bit that should not last more than a handful of episodes.