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‘Eternally Yours’- CBS Orders Vampire Comedy Pilot from ‘Ghosts’ Showrunners
As paranormal sitcom “Ghosts” gears up for a fifth season on CBS, the network appears to be venturing further into the supernatural by ordering up a pilot for vampire comedy series “Eternally Yours.”
The series will follow “a long-married — as in, for 500 years — vampire couple and their struggle to accept the human who is dating their daughter. “
The project, hailing from “Ghosts” showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, has been in the works since August 2024 and assembled a development writers’ room earlier this year before finally receiving the pilot order, THR notes.
Port and Wiseman will write the pilot and executive produce with Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum, and Jason Wang.
“Ghosts” premiered in 2021 and has since gone on to become one of CBS’s most popular and critically acclaimed shows. It follows a young couple who inherited a rundown country estate, only to find it is filled with ghosts. The series’ fifth season will premiere on October 16, just ahead of Halloween.
With “Eternally Yours” pilot officially greenlit, expect to hear more about the vampire comedy soon.
Himesh Patel (Tenet, Don’t Look Up) will star opposite Danielle Deadwyler (The Woman in the Yard) in Ryan Coogler’s reboot of “The X-Files“, which has wrapped filming on the pilot.
Patel confirmed the news in a chat with The Direct, while reiterating that he and Deadwyler play new characters.
“I don’t want to say anything that’s going to get me disappeared. Needless to say, myself and Danielle Deadwyler are playing completely new characters, and we just wrapped on the pilot. If we get to do more… we’ll see where we go from there,” Patel said.
That last sentence is noteworthy, as Patel is reminding that Hulu has only ordered the pilot so far. A full series order has yet to be greenlit.
It’s a good reminder, considering that Hulu also ordered a pilot for the “Buffy: New Sunnydale” reboot that was filmed and delivered earlier this year, only for the streamer to send shockwaves when it opted not to move forward with the series.
As for “The X-Files” pilot, Sinners filmmaker Ryan Coogler writes and directs the pilot. Jennifer Yale (“The Copenhagen Test”) serves as showrunner.
Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler play two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.
Patel and Deadwyler previously co-starred together on “Station Eleven.”
Other actors who have signed on for guest roles include Amy Madigan, Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Devery Jacobs, Lochlyn Munro, Tantoo Cardinal, Joel D. Montgrand, and Sofia Grace Clifton.
“The X-Files” originally ran for nine seasons between 1993 and 2002, with two additional seasons arriving in 2016 and 2018. 218 episodes were produced in total, along with two feature films: 1998’s The X-Files: Fight the Future and 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
Himesh Patel in “Station Eleven”
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