CBS has made the ultimate scripted programming choice forward of showing its 2026-27 schedule subsequent week. The community stated Thursday it has picked up considered one of its two comedy pilots, Eternally Yours, to sequence, whereas passing on the opposite, The Tillbrooks (previously generally known as Regency).
With that, CBS will probably be dropping beneath 4 comedy sequence on the air in a single season for the primary time in a very long time — or ever — as Eternally Yours joins the community’s two returning half-hour sequence, the single-camera Ghosts and multi-camera Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage. In addition to not going ahead with The Tillbrooks, CBS canceled freshman DMV, and its veteran sitcom The Neighborhood also is ending.
The single-camera vampire comedy Eternally Yours, starring Ed Weeks and Allegra Edwards, comes from Ghosts showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman and CBS Studios. While it has a extra up to date setting than Ghosts, Eternally Yours has all the time been envisioned as a possible companion. In addition to a standard supernatural theme, each are filming in the identical Montreal location beneath the identical showrunners, making them suitable.
Eternally Yours‘ pedigree gave it an inherent edge over The Tillbrooks, a multi-camera sitcom from Tara Hernandez and Warner Bros TV starring Kate Walsh and Rhys Darby. The Eternally Yours pilot additionally did higher on the community screenings final week, sources stated.
This is a repeat of final 12 months when CBS additionally was selecting between a single-camera comedy pilot from CBS Studios, DMV, and a multi-cam pilot from WBTV, Zarna; finally, it went with the CBS Studios single-camera one. Coincidentally, the successful pilots in each instances, Eternally Yours and DMV, have been each directed and government produced by Trent O’Donnell, who additionally directed and government produced the pilot for Ghosts.
Passing on The Tillbrooks helps CBS, in its first upfront since father or mother Paramount Global’s acquisition by Skydance, steadiness its books. The community goes down a comedy sequence subsequent season, 3 vs. 4 this season, however going up a drama, with two new reveals becoming a member of, Cupertino and Einstein, and just one present drama not returning in 2026-27, Watson.
Today’s sequence order caps a protracted improvement journey for Eternally Yours, which two years in the past was already in precedence improvement at CBS Studios. Working round Port and Wiseman’s schedule on Ghosts, CBS ordered a development room for the project in August 2024. A pilot order followed a year later, in July 2025.
Eternally Yours is a household comedy centered round Charles (Weeks) and Liz (Edwards) — a vampire couple whose once-passionate romance has devolved right into a pulseless marriage after 500 years collectively. Living in present-day Seattle with their oddball coven, they’ve settled into an everlasting rut — till their daughter’s earnest human boyfriend unexpectedly enters their lives and forces them to confront whether or not their love can survive perpetually … or if perpetually is a life sentence.
Helen J Shen, Jaren Lewison and Parker Young additionally star, with Rose Abdoo, Tristan Michael Brown and Shylo Molina rounding out the sequence common forged.
Port and Wiseman government produce alongside Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum and Jason Wang.
