{"id":275826,"date":"2026-02-09T22:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/275826\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:30:48","slug":"helen-j-shen-parker-young-join-cbs-comedy-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/275826\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen J Shen &#038; Parker Young Join CBS Comedy Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/helen-j-shen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_helen-j-shen\" data-tag=\"helen-j-shen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Helen J Shen<\/a> (Maybe Happy Ending) and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/parker-young\/\" id=\"auto-tag_parker-young\" data-tag=\"parker-young\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Parker Young<\/a> (The United States of Al) have been cast as series regulars opposite Ed Weeks, Allegra Edwards and Jaren Lewison in CBS\u2018 vampire comedy pilot <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/eternally-yours\/\" id=\"auto-tag_eternally-yours\" data-tag=\"eternally-yours\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eternally Yours<\/a>, from Ghosts developers, executive producers and showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman and CBS Studios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWritten by Port and Wiseman, Eternally Yours is an eternal love story about two vampires, Liz (Edwards) and Charles (Weeks), who have been married for five hundred years, and their struggles to accept the human, Max (Lewison), who is dating their daughter, Emma (Shen).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCynical and sardonic, Emma is a bright and caring veterinarian who lives at home in a coven with her vampire parents, Charles and Liz. A longtime witness to their difficult marriage, Emma is a commitment-phobe who is always waiting for the other shoe to drop in relationships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tYoung will play Jesse, a lovable goofball and an under-thinker in a house of over-thinkers. Part of Charles &amp; Liz\u2019s vampire coven since the mid 1800\u2019s, Jesse\u2019s trick to avoiding getting tied down for eternity is that he only marries humans. As he says, \u201cHave fun for a while, then you get a new model\u201d when they pass away. Only problem is that people are living a lot longer than they did back in the day. Consequently, he is in the fourth decade of very loving marriage with a woman who could now easily pass for his mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe pilot brings Young back to CBS where he starred on the Chuck Lorre comedy series United States Of Al.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPort and Wiseman executive produce alongside Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum and Jason Wang. CBS Studios is the studio. Filming is slated to begin soon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShen currently stars in the critically-acclaimed Broadway musical Maybe Happy Ending, winner of the 2025 Tony Award for Best Musical. For their performance, Shen was recognized with the Clive Barnes Award for Theatre, the Theatre World Award, along with Grammy, Drama Desk and Drama League award nominations. Shen recently wrapped filming The Devil Wears Prada 2, set to be released this May. Shen is repped by Artists &amp; Representatives and Solstice Talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn addition to United States of Al, Young\u2019s previous credits include Imposters, Fox\u2019s comedy Enlisted and his breakout role as the hilarious \u201cRyan Shay\u201d on ABC\u2019s Suburgatory. He also recurred on Lena Waithe\u2019s Twenties, 911 Lonestar and Fox\u2019s Going Dutch. He\u2019ll next be seen in McG\u2019s film, The Way of the Warrior Kid, playing a Navy SEAL opposite Chris Pratt. Young is repped by Gersh and David Dean Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Helen J Shen (Maybe Happy Ending) and Parker Young (The United States of Al) have been cast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,155370,155371,111,139,69,155372,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-275826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-eternally-yours","10":"tag-helen-j-shen","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-parker-young","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}