Eternally Yours Brings a Free Vampire Sitcom to CBS This October

CBS is bringing vampires to television this fall, but Eternally Yours skips the dark supernatural drama route entirely. The network is turning vampires into a family sitcom instead, and the show premieres Thursday, October 8, 2026, at 8:30/7:30c. Paramount+ will stream it too, though live and on-demand access depends on the subscriber’s plan.

I have a pretty good feeling about this one, and CBS’s track record explains why. The network has repeatedly kept successful sitcoms around for years. Even though no platform bats a perfect record and every network cancels some shows early, that history gives Eternally Yours a solid launching pad.

CBS Has Built a Strong History With Sitcoms

CBS has produced plenty of sitcoms that outlasted their first couple of seasons. The Big Bang Theory ran for 12 seasons, and Two and a Half Men matched that run. Everybody Loves Raymond completed nine seasons, while Mom lasted eight.

Young Sheldon wrapped up after seven seasons in 2024, and Mike & Molly finished with six. Bob Hearts Abishola ran for five seasons, and Ghosts continues today as one of CBS’s most recognizable modern hits.

Ghosts matters here because it proved CBS audiences will embrace a comedy built around supernatural characters. Eternally Yours now brings its own supernatural concept to the network, swapping ghosts for vampires who have spent centuries trying to maintain a normal family life. The connection runs deeper than premise alone. Executive producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman also created the American version of Ghosts.

None of that guarantees Eternally Yours will replicate that success. But for anyone hoping a new sitcom sticks around, CBS offers a pretty reassuring home.

A 500-Year Marriage Anchors the Show

Charles and Liz sit at the center of Eternally Yours, played by Ed Weeks and Allegra Edwards. This married vampire couple has stayed together for 500 years. That is an impressive run by any standard, though it’s apparently grown a little exhausting too.

CBS describes their relationship as a once-passionate romance that has deteriorated into a “pulseless marriage” after five centuries. They now live in present-day Seattle with their oddball vampire coven, settled into an eternal routine. Liz still loves Charles, and she doesn’t regret marrying him, but she misses how things used to feel between them.

That tension fuels the show’s central joke. Most married couples treat “We’ll be together forever” as a romantic promise, but for Charles and Liz, it functions as a legally binding nightmare. Vampires can’t divorce under this show’s rules. Their Council of Elders enforces that restriction strictly. Therefore, Charles and Liz can’t simply walk away from each other.

They’re stuck together forever, which means they’ll keep irritating each other for centuries to come. Imagine feeling annoyed by your spouse’s habits today and realizing you’ll still feel that same annoyance hundreds of years from now. Notably, Eternally Yours builds its comedy around exactly that problem.

Emma Brings a Human Into the Vampire Family

Things get more complicated when Charles and Liz’s daughter, Emma, starts dating a human. Helen J Shen plays Emma, and Jaren Lewison plays her boyfriend, Max, with both actors rounding out the main cast.

Max eventually meets Emma’s family and discovers they’re nothing like what he expected. Emma tries calling her family simply “different” at first. She even claims they’re Canadian at one point, but that excuse doesn’t hold up for long.

Max eventually learns the truth: vampires are real, and he’s dating into a vampire family. He panics, understandably, and Emma doesn’t feel thrilled either. She’s finally found someone she likes, only to watch her parents and the rest of the family threaten to blow up the relationship by revealing their biggest secret.

That leaves Emma facing an obvious problem. How does anyone maintain a normal relationship when bringing a boyfriend home means introducing him to a 500-year-old vampire coven?

Jesse Takes a Completely Different Approach to Marriage

Charles and Liz aren’t the only married vampires in this family. Parker Young plays Jesse, who takes a very different approach to relationships than his parents do.

Jesse married Phyllis, played by Rose Abdoo, and Phyllis happens to be mortal. Jesse prefers mortal partners specifically because he doesn’t want to spend 500 years married to the same person. Since humans age naturally, a relationship with a mortal skips that eternal commitment entirely. It’s a pretty clever strategy, at least on paper.

One problem keeps getting in the way, though: Phyllis isn’t aging fast enough for Jesse’s liking. She doesn’t know her husband is a vampire, and she has no idea she’s surrounded by a vampire family. So whenever she gets suspicious, Jesse wipes her memory. Phyllis keeps getting close to the truth, only to have Jesse reset everything each time.

Jesse and Phyllis also have two sons, Mort and Henry, played by Tristan Michael Brown and Shylo Molina. This complicates Jesse’s strategy even further. He wanted to avoid an eternal marriage by choosing mortal partners. However, he ended up building a family instead. His biggest complaint might simply be that his mortal wife is taking far too long to age the way he expected — a pretty hilarious marital problem for a vampire to have.

Vampire Rules Make Everything More Ridiculous

Eternally Yours also has fun with traditional vampire mythology throughout. This family has spent centuries living together, but they still have to function in modern society. This means navigating school, sports, relationships, and family arguments while following centuries-old vampire rules.

The classic invitation rule still applies: a vampire can’t simply walk into someone’s home unless a human formally invites them inside. Garlic shows up too. However, the characters don’t treat it with any reverence — they dismiss it as an offensive stereotype instead.

That captures the show’s general approach. It takes familiar vampire mythology and treats it like an annoying part of everyday life. So the vampires never feel shocked that they’re vampires. Instead, they feel shocked that humans still believe all the old vampire stereotypes.

The Show Reaches Beyond Vampire Jokes

The vampire concept doesn’t carry the entire show, which makes Eternally Yours more interesting than it might first appear. At its core, the series explores relationships from several angles.

Charles and Liz are trying to figure out how to stay married after 500 years together. Emma is trying to build a relationship with someone outside her family’s supernatural world. Meanwhile, Jesse is trying to dodge eternal commitment by marrying mortals. Phyllis, meanwhile, is unknowingly living inside a vampire family while apparently taking an extremely long time to age.

Each storyline approaches the same basic question from a different direction: what does a relationship look like when one person doesn’t age? Eternity has become exhausting for Charles and Liz. Meanwhile, Jesse actively tries to avoid it altogether. For Emma, eternity could become a real problem if she falls in love with someone who doesn’t share her family’s secret.

That range gives the comedy far more to work with than simple jokes about drinking blood.

Why Eternally Yours Could Have a Future on CBS

Plenty of new sitcoms look funny in trailers and still fail to make it very far, which makes the CBS connection a big positive for Eternally Yours. The network has kept sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory, Everybody Loves Raymond, Mom, Young Sheldon, Two and a Half Men, Mike & Molly, and Bob Hearts Abishola on the air for years. Also, Ghosts shows that CBS can still build a successful modern comedy around a supernatural premise.

Eternally Yours carries an added advantage: Joe Port and Joe Wiseman’s involvement links it creatively to one of CBS’s biggest current supernatural comedies. None of that guarantees a long run, of course. The audience still has to show up.

But the premise gives the show plenty of room to grow. Charles and Liz’s marriage can anchor the emotional core, while Emma and Max’s relationship brings in the human perspective. Jesse and Phyllis add a completely different take on immortality. Additionally, the rest of the vampire family supplies plenty of opportunities for ridiculous situations. Because it airs on CBS, viewers won’t need to wait on a streaming service to decide whether they’re allowed to watch it.

Eternally Yours arrives on CBS on October 8 at 8:30/7:30c, with streaming available through Paramount+. A 500-year marriage, a vampire family, and a human boyfriend who has no idea what he’s gotten himself into all set the stage. Furthermore, one vampire husband apparently thinks his mortal wife should hurry up and age already.

Honestly, this could be fun.