CBS made its final scripted programming decision Thursday ahead of unveiling its 2026-27 schedule next week, picking up Eternally Yours to series and passing on The Tillbrooks. The move leaves the network with three comedy series next season, down from four this season.
That means CBS will be dropping below four comedy series on the air in one season for the first time in a long time, or ever. The network also canceled freshman DMV and is ending The Neighborhood, which makes the comedy cutback steeper than a single pilot pass might suggest.
Eternally Yours had the stronger showing at network screenings last week, and that appears to have tipped the balance. The single-camera vampire comedy stars Ed Weeks and Allegra Edwards as Charles and Liz, a couple whose romance has curdled after 500 years together, and it is set in present-day Seattle with their oddball coven. The cast also includes Helen J Shen, Jaren Lewison, Parker Young, Rose Abdoo, Tristan Michael Brown and Shylo Molina.
The series comes from Ghosts showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman and CBS Studios, and it has been filming in Montreal. By contrast, The Tillbrooks was a multi-camera sitcom from Tara Hernandez and Warner Bros. TV starring Kate Walsh and Rhys Darby; it was formerly known as Regency. CBS had placed both projects in the same competition, but the CBS Studios half-hour won out.
That decision also fits the network’s broader 2026-27 plans. CBS is adding two new dramas, Cupertino and Einstein, and only one current drama, Watson, is not returning. Two years after Eternally Yours was already in priority development at CBS Studios, then moving through a development room in August 2024 and a pilot order in July 2025, the project is finally in place as the comedy bet CBS chose to carry forward.
Passing on The Tillbrooks helps CBS, in its first upfront since parent Paramount Global’s acquisition by Skydance, balance its books. The choice answers the question behind the headline: CBS did not just cancel a pilot, it chose a leaner comedy lineup and put its money on the vampire couple with the stronger read inside the building.
