The ‘Ghosts’ Universe May Be About to Get Much Bigger [Exclusive]

Image via Bertrand Calmeau/CBS Published Aug 4, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT Sign in to your Collider account This fall, Ghosts is rolling out the (blood) red carpet to welcome a spooky new sister series to the Thursday night lineup on CBS. Last week, at San Diego Comic-Con, the lucky attendees in Ballroom 20 were the first to see the pilot episode of Eternally Yours, a new series from Ghosts showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman. The preview episode was followed by an exciting panel introducing the wickedly talented cast, moderated by Collider's Perri Nemiroff​​​. Naturally, when Nemiroff caught up with the cast at Collider's SDCC interview studio, she had to ask what a potential crossover between the shows helmed by Port and Wiseman might look like, and the Eternally Yours cast came prepared. When asked which character from Ghosts they'd like to see their characters share a scene with, Ed Weeks, who plays vampire patriarch Charles, instantly imagined his character "having a quarrel with Isaac about who is the de facto leader of the group. [...] An arrogance-off." Jaren Lewinson — who plays Max, the human boyfriend of Charles and Liz's (Allegra Edwards) vampire daughter, Emma (Helen J. Shen) — said he would be happy to "maybe just watch some sports with Jay." Lewinson continued: "I think we would have a really nice time. I think it'd be like a nice, really lovely, normal interaction for the both of us," he laughed. "He doesn't get to have that, and I don't think I do very much either. There's a lot of supernatural stuff going on," explained Lewinson, to which Weeks joked, "And he'd be able to see you, which is so lovely. That's one of my favorite qualities about you — how visible you are." Edwards, who Ghosts fans will recognize from her guest role on the series as Pete's (Richie Moriarty) island girlfriend, Donna, naturally took the opportunity to reference her time on the show. "I would have a little sit-down with Pete and freak him out because of how much I resemble a certain ex-girlfriend of his. [...] I don't even have to do anything. It would just be Richie [Moriarty] going, 'Do I know you?'" Meanwhile, Shen couldn't resist poking fun at a certain pants-less ghost, saying, "I feel like a pants-less conversation would be like, 'I'm not not thinking about the fact that you're not wearing pants.' [...] With Trevor. He's so funny. There's a dryness to his legs, his ashen, Asher [Grodman] legs." Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you're not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one. 🏕️Jason 🔪Michael 💤Freddy 🎈Pennywise 🪆Chucky TEST YOUR SURVIVAL → 01 Something feels wrong. You can't explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty. ALeave immediately. I don't need to understand a threat to respect it. BStay quiet and observe. If I can see it, I can understand it. If I can understand it, I can avoid it. CStay awake. Whatever this is, I am not going to sleep until I feel safe again. DConfront it directly. Fear grows in the dark — I'd rather know what I'm dealing with. ECheck everything, trust nothing. The threat might be closer than I think — and smaller. NEXT QUESTION → 02 Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply. ASomewhere remote — a cabin, a campsite, off the grid and away from people. BA quiet suburban neighbourhood where nothing ever happens. Except tonight. CIn my own head — the most dangerous place of all, depending on what's already in there. DWherever children are — because something about this place attracts the worst things. ESomewhere ordinary — a house, a toy store, a place where the last thing you'd expect is a threat. NEXT QUESTION → 03 What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn't account for. What's yours? APhysical fitness — I can run, I can swim, I can outlast something that relies on brute persistence. BSpatial awareness — I always know the exits, the hiding spots, the fastest route out. CPsychological resilience — I've faced my worst fears before. They don't have the same power over me. DEmotional steadiness — I don't panic. Panic is what gets you caught. EScepticism — I don't underestimate threats because of how they look. Size is irrelevant. NEXT QUESTION → 04 What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it. AThe unstoppable — something that will not stop, cannot be reasoned with, and is always getting closer. BThe invisible — a threat I can feel but can't locate, watching from somewhere I can't see. CThe psychological — something that uses my own mind and memories against me. DThe unknowable — something ancient, shapeless, that feeds on the fear itself. EThe mundane — a threat so ordinary-looking that no one will believe me until it's too late. NEXT QUESTION → 05 You're with a group when things start going wrong. What's your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn't. AThe one who says "we need to leave" first — and means it, even when no one listens. BThe one who stays quiet, watches the others, and figures out the pattern before anyone else does. CThe one who holds the group together when panic sets in — because someone has to. DThe one who asks the questions nobody wants to ask — because ignoring them gets people killed. EThe one who takes the threat seriously when everyone else is laughing it off. NEXT QUESTION → 06 What's the horror movie mistake you're most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not. AGoing back for someone — I know I shouldn't, but I can't leave them behind. BAssuming I'm safe once I've found a hiding spot. That's when it finds me. CFalling asleep when I absolutely cannot afford to. Exhaustion is its own enemy. DLetting my curiosity override my instincts — I always need to understand what I'm dealing with. EDismissing the threat because of how it looks. That's exactly what it wants. NEXT QUESTION → 07 What's your best weapon against something that can't be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it. AThe environment itself — I use the terrain, the water, the geography against it. BPatience — I wait, I watch, and I strike at the one moment it doesn't expect. CLucidity — if I can stay in control of my own mind, it loses its primary weapon. DCourage — facing it directly, refusing to run, taking away the fear it feeds on. EImprovisation — I use whatever's at hand, however unconventional. Creativity over brute force. NEXT QUESTION → 08 It's the final scene. You're the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What's yours? AI kept moving. I never stopped, never hid for too long, never let it corner me. BI figured out the pattern before anyone else did — and I used it against the thing following it. CI stayed awake, stayed lucid, and refused to give it the one thing it needed most. DI stopped being afraid of it. And the moment I did, everything changed. EI took it seriously from the start — and I never once made the mistake of underestimating it. REVEAL MY VILLAIN → Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck. Jason VoorheesJason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit. He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn't strategise, doesn't adapt, doesn't outsmart. He simply pursues. Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge. The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance. You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected. Michael MyersMichael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it's too late for anyone who isn't paying close enough attention. But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound. Michael's power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is. Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had. You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it. Freddy KruegerFreddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised. You are harder to destabilise than most. You've faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven't looked away. The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it. Freddy's greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on. Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here. PennywisePennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it. The Losers Club didn't survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly. You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away. That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise's worst nightmare. It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all. ChuckyChucky's greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it's already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is. You don't have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance. Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone. Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing. Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing. ↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ What Do You Need to Know About 'Eternally Yours' Before It Premieres This Fall While their backstories are subject to change as writing moves forward on the new series, the cast of Eternally Yours revealed some juicy details about their character choices as they film the rest of Season 1 alongside Ghosts in Montreal, Canada. When asked about backstory details they'll use to inform their performances, Weeks once again had a perfectly succinct answer. He told Nemiroff: "For me, I think because in the cold open, so 500 years ago when we're first getting together, and we both speak with English accents, I love the idea that I have kept mine, just stubbornly, whereas Liz has, has assimilated into American culture, and I refuse to. No, thank you. So, to me, that was kind of a statement in my kind of stick-in-the-mud conservatism." For Shen, she's ready to dive into Emma's dating history to further explore why she's so drawn to Max now. "To be in the body that she's in eternally, she's probably gotten many degrees, done many skills, experienced, honestly, everything under the sun, and to decide, 'I'm going to try the thing that I've never tried before,' — normal — is quite an interesting kind of outside-in experience to me," explained Shen. "I'm excited to see how that deepens our relationship. Then, when, potentially, if things get rocky, how there's maybe some apprehension about it or, like, 'This is the whole reason why I didn't do normal before!' Things like that. To have 200 years of backstory is, I think, daunting at times, but also, it's an exercise in my imagination and our imagination, and talking about it. I just am excited about getting around a campfire and talking our histories together." Comparatively, as the show's main human character, Lewinson's Max has significantly less backstory than the others, having only been alive for "20-something years." However, that gave Lewinson plenty of inspiration for how to play Max, explaining, "I think that also brings a freshness and a newness, and sort of, I don't know if it's a little puppy energy in the grand scheme of how long everyone else has been alive, but I think that Max probably is really excited because this is only the first time that he's really lived this life, versus maybe they have had several, like Helen was saying. So, I think hopefully, as Max interacts more with this family and this coven, he brings in some freshness and some excitedness, which hopefully will inspire others to rekindle things or take on new adventures, or whatever." Edwards had an equally thoughtful answer, revealing that she actually worked with some of the show's "amazing wardrobe designers" to create a beautiful bit of backstory built right into her costume. "We've got some amazing wardrobe designers on our show, and they have such a task in front of them with the flashbacks, which is going to be fun, but also a lot of work," said Edwards, making sure to give the below-the-line team their well-deserved flowers. She went on to reveal a subtle costume detail that Liz wears that reveals a deep love for history. She told Nemiroff: "One of the things that they gifted me with for the pilot was this really cool ring. It's a wedding ring, and it's a replica of something that would have been around in the 1500s that is two separate rings. So, it's like a gemstone on the bottom, and then you slide on another gemstone, and they interlock once they're together, but the man would have worn the top one, and then once they get married, I would wear both of them together. So, I'm always wearing something from the 1500s. Or there's a blazer that I wear that has the initial B for Blythe, and I like the idea that maybe it's 300 years old and not just something… The way that I'm thinking about her is this sort of collected house that she lives in, that maybe the pieces of art are really from her family, 400 years ago. The things that she wears reflect a version of herself from another century, and their not being able to help holding onto the heritage, or being attracted to the things from the eras that we've lived through and that we're not in anymore, while also trying to be modern at the same time." While Young's character detail can also be spotted in his wardrobe, his article of choice is significantly less subtle than Edwards' wedding ring. "One little thing that I fought for in the pilot was, Jesse was described as being a personal trainer, so as you would expect, my wardrobe was that of a personal trainer. It was Lululemon, and it just felt like it was missing an opportunity to showcase someone who has lived for a couple of centuries," said Young before revealing he had strong feelings about including a bit of anachronism in the way Jesse dresses. "I was stuck on this idea of, he lived in the 1800s. He was a farmhand, and he was a cowboy. [...] So, I fought to wear cowboy boots. I wanted to have something reminiscent of that time, even if the rest of my wardrobe was indicative of a personal trainer. And it was so funny, the costume designer, who's incredibly talented, describes seeing me for the first time in my workout pants with cowboy boots as nails on a chalkboard for her. She's like, “I could not accept this, but then seeing it now, it makes sense.” Weeks joked that they're "just justifying the fact that he has cowboy boots and I have a British accent. Everyone else has thought about this…" Why 'Eternally Yours' Is the Perfect New Series to Make the Wait for 'Ghosts' Season 6 Feel Shorter During a separate interview, Ghosts star Utkarsh Ambudkar hyped up the new series that will be premiering in their usual time slot this fall. "You get a great sort of cousin to Ghosts in Eternally Yours, which is premiering, and they will slide into that Thursday spot that folks are really used to seeing. Eternally Yours is replacing us, but I think it's a great show." He explained, "We watched the pilot today. It’s really funny, really smart, and hopefully will give them a boost because we want them to stay on and be part of the CBS family, especially because they’re children of the Joes, as well. And if they do well, then we get that crossover, which would be great." Asher Grodman then joked, "And they have to stay in Montreal with us because we're really lonely." When asked which Eternally Yours character they would like to see their Ghosts characters interacting with, Grodman revealed more delightful behind-the-scenes overlap, explaining, "Oh, I mean, I went to grad school with Allegra [Edwards], so we spent many, many an hour working together, so that would be a no-brainer. And Trevor would love that character. So yeah, that would be a nightmare and so exciting." Román Zaragoza, who was pulling double duty at SDCC for Ghosts and Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, missed the pilot screening, but said he would happily share the screen with Shen after seeing her performance in Maybe Happy Ending on Broadway. "It brought me to tears. I took my mom, and it was such an amazing Broadway performance. If anyone has not seen Maybe Happy Ending, check it out. [...] She's incredible. Tony-nominated. So, selfishly, I would love to work with her. It could be really fun." Meanwhile, Ambudkar would love to have a The Mindy Project reunion with Weeks: "It's been many, many years, so it'd be nice to see him in a work environment." Eternally Yours premieres on October 8, and Ghosts will air a 1-hour Halloween special on October 29 on CBS. Stay tuned at Collider for more. Network CBS Showrunner Joe Port, Joe Wiseman Directors Trent O'Donnell Creator(s) Joe Port, Joe Wiseman