CBS’ ‘Eternally Yours’: The Story Of 11-Year-Old Script That Wouldn’t Die & The Podcast That Helped Bring It Back To Life – And Find A Lead
Joe Port and Joe Wiseman's vampire comedy script 'Eternally Yours,' written in 2015, took 11 years to become a CBS series after a long development process. A 2019 table read on the Dead Pilots Society podcast kept the project alive and featured Ed Weeks, who was later cast in the same role for the 2026 series. The show, centering on a centuries-old vampire couple, was picked up alongside the duo's other series 'Ghosts,' both receiving 18-episode orders for the 2026-27 season.
- ▪Eternally Yours was written in 2015 by Joe Port and Joe Wiseman and finally picked up as a CBS series in 2026.
- ▪A 2019 table read on Andrew Reich and Ben Blacker’s Dead Pilots Society podcast helped sustain interest in the script, with Ed Weeks reprising his role from the reading in the eventual series.
- ▪The script’s journey included a brief consideration for an animated version and was the first 'busted pilot' featured on Dead Pilots Society to be picked up to series.
- ▪Port and Wiseman were hired as developers and executive producers on CBS’s Ghosts after the Eternally Yours script gained attention.
- ▪Both Eternally Yours and Ghosts, which Port and Wiseman will executive produce and showrun, have 18-episode orders for the 2026-27 season.
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(L-R): Joe Wiseman, Joe Port (inset); 'Eternally Yours' CBS/Courtesy For those lamenting the slow pace of the TV development process, how about one that spans 11 years? That is how long it took for Joe Port and Joe Wiseman‘s new CBS vampire comedy series Eternally Yours, starring Ed Weeks and Allegra Edwards. Their pilot script, written in 2015, got a table read in 2019, a development room in 2024, a pilot order in 2025, and a series pickup in 2026. The 2019 table read was staged on Andrew Reich and Ben Blacker’s Dead Pilots Society podcast, with Weeks as the male lead. Six years later, he would be cast in the same role in the CBS pilot that went to series for 2026-27.
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