"Wednesday" Renewed for Season 2

The Jenna Ortega-starrer Netflix series "Wednesday" has finally been renewed for a season 2.

The eight-episode first season of the series centered on the titular “Addams Family” character debuted on November 23, 2022. 

The giant streamer announced shortly thereafter that the series set a new platform record for most hours viewed for an English language series in its first week with over 341 million hours. 

Since then, the horror comedy series has grown to become the second biggest English language season of television on Netflix with over 1.2 billion hours viewed within its first 28 days, among other streaming series records. 

"Wednesday" starred Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams, Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley, and Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems.

The cast also included Jamie McShane, Percy Hynes White, Hunter Doohan, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Naomi J. Ogawa, Moosa Mostafa, Georgie Farmer, Riki Lindhome, and Christina Ricci. 

The eight-episode series focused on Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. 

She attempted to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore.

“Smallville” creators Al Gough and Miles Millar developed the series and also served as co-showrunners and executive producers. 

Tim Burton directed the first four episodes and also served as an executive producer on the series.

Executive producers include Steve Stark of Toluca Pictures and Andrew Mittman of 1.21 Entertainment as well along with Kevin Miserocchi of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation.

Executive producers also include Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman of Glickmania, Gail Berman, Tommy Harper, and Kevin Lafferty. MGM Television is the studio.