Steven Prusakowski
As temperatures drop and leaves start to fall it means the new CBS fall lineup is arriving with CBS Premiere Week. During a recent CBS Fall 2026 Virtual Press Day the network previewed three of the very different new series launching in the coming days. The series include a sitcom featuring a centuries-old vampire family navigating modern life in Seattle, a David-versus-Goliath legal drama set in the cutthroat world of Silicon Valley, and an expansion of television’s biggest procedural franchise that brings one of its most popular agents home to New York.
During the event, the creators and stars shared insights into the latest additions to the CBS line-up.
Eternally Yours is the new family comedy with bite from Ghosts executive producers and showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman. It follows two vampire families who have lived together for centuries while keeping their dark secret from the world. It centers around Charles (Ed Weeks) and Liz (Allegra Edwards), a vampire couple whose 500-year marriage has gone stale.
Creators Port and Wiseman shared that they first wrote the script more than a decade ago and it has an unexpected connection to their other series, Ghosts.
“The main thing in this show to us that separates it from a lot of vampire shows is that it’s about relationships and marriage and it’s a very relatable show. Honestly, Wiseman said this was kind of inspired by our lives. And it was very, very autobiographical in a weird way.” He shared how Charles and Liz essentially stand in for the two longtime writing partners themselves, calling it a story “for people who are married or who have been friends for a long time and who get on each other’s nerves, but who love each other.” Wiseman added, “We wrote the script over 12 years ago. This actually is the script that helped us, Joe and myself, adapt Ghosts. So now because of the success of ‘Ghosts’, we get to revisit this. Appropriately has been brought back from the dead, which seems appropriate for vampires.”
Port highlighted a key difference in the storytelling that changes everything after years of writing characters who can never leave the house on Ghosts. “It’s incredibly refreshing to have characters that can walk out the door and go to jobs and hold things in their hands,” shared Port. “We’re going to be out in the world a little more than we are on Ghosts.”
And speaking of Ghosts and being out in the world, the team is already eyeing a crossover, with Wiseman confirming they’ve been talking about it “a lot” and calling it “definitely a possibility.” Since the vampires can leave their house, unlike the spirits stuck in the mansion it opens the doors for them to visit the Ghosts crew. Allegra Edwards, who previously appeared on Ghosts excitedly shared, “I love the idea that I am my own great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother.”
The series, which premieres October 8 at 8:30 p.m. on CBS and Paramount+ also stars Jaren Lewison as Max, Helen J. Shen as Emma, Parker Young as Jesse, and Rose Abdo as Phyllis.
Cupertino takes us somewhere completely different – to the high-stakes world of tech and the law. Created by Robert and Michelle King (the married team behind such great shows as Evil, Elsbeth, The Good Wife and The Good Fight), the drama centers on Michael Price (Mike Colter), a lawyer cheated out of his stock options by a former tech-startup employer, who teams up with recently fired attorney Olivia Siffre (Rachel Keller) to take on the powerful elite of Silicon Valley. The series premieres on CBS and Paramount+ October 8th at 10 p.m.
Co-creator Robert King explained the creative origins of the series. “It felt like so many of the tech pros and it started off as kind of disruptors and the people who wanted to move fast and break things were now the people in charge and at the top. And it felt like the TV shows we’d seen were mostly a track about those people at the top when what seemed interesting to us are the people who are being screwed over. It just came about, it seemed like a David versus Goliath thing of people at the bottom who are trying to basically correct what people at the top are doing.”
Colter (an alum of one of the Kings’ extremely underrated supernatural series, Evil) described how the partnership between Michael and Olivia makes the series tick, “He does understand exactly the value that Olivia (Keller) brings and he does understand her point of view. But he also is very clear about what his intentions are. At first it’s sort of a personal vendetta.”
“There’s one line, ‘You see me coming a mile away, but she’s a secret weapon.’ Michael’s an opportunist. And he does see the value in helping people, but he also sees the value in making money. So he’s sort of two-handedly doing things for the right reasons, but it has to make sense and she balances him out,” shared Colter.
Keller described her character, Olivia, as ambitious and driven to make a difference. Olivia comes from the Midwest and went to law school, eventually landing at a Silicon Valley tech startup after researching where she could make the most money. After being fired following an incident of sexual harassment, she sees Michael’s offer to start a firm as an opportunity to make a name for herself while doing something meaningful.
Keller also highlighted the relationship that develops between Olivia and Michael. “I think the friendship that’s formed between Olivia and Michael Price is so… I haven’t seen it often on television, like colleagues, a mentor, a mentee, and there’s real respect and kindness,” she said. “To me, that feels like such a heartbeat to the whole show, a kind of touchstone along the way.”
With NCIS: New York, CBS brings the franchise’s newest chapter to the five boroughs. Special Agent Sam Hanna (LL Cool J) returns to his hometown to help lead the New York office, partnering with roguish agent Nick Schaeffer (Scott Caan). The series premieres October 6th at 9 p.m. on CBS and Paramount+.
For LL Cool J, filming in the city means a lot, to the rapper and actor born in Bay Shore, NY. “New York is a main character. So doing it in New York, it really feels different. It’s definitely more gritty. It’s definitely a whole new iteration of the franchise, and I think it’s a great contribution to the universe,” shared LL Cool J. “It gives you so many different people from all over the world, so many different types of energies. You’re very close to the street when you film in New York. I’m seeing parts of New York I never saw, and I was born and raised here.”
Scott Caan who has spent much of the 2000s in the heat of Hawaii Five-O and even in NCIS: Los Angeles (in an unrelated crossover role) said the chance to join the project was an easy choice. “Not specific to this character, but just working with Todd (Cool J) and working with Byron (Showrunner/EP Byron Balasco) and ultimately everybody that ended up getting on board, it was kind of a no-brainer for me. I’ve always been a fan of Todd’s and we’ve always gotten along really well so when there was an opportunity to work with him and work with Byron, it was that came first before thinking about character at all.”
Balasco emphasized that although they are continuing a beloved franchise, “we’re doing it in our own way.” By filming on location they will “really show you guys the city with character forward cases that are tense and really exploring every, every kind of nook and cranny of New York in the five boroughs.”
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