Wednesday - how to watch Tim Burton’s Addams Family series on Netflix & full cast list

Tim Burton’s Addams Family series ‘Wednesday’ will premiere on streaming services this month. The coming-of-age show arrives almost sixty years after Wednesday first appeared on our small screens.

Film-lovers’ favourite goth girl is back with her very own show. Jenna Ortega will play the unhinged and bohemian Wednesday Addams, with Fred Armisten, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and more all starring in supporting roles.

The eight-part comedy-drama series steps away from the Addams Family’s Macabre mansion and will focus on Wednesday’s time at Nevermore Academy. The role is being updated for 2022 with a long lineage of actors having played the deranged emo girl, including Chloe-Grace Moretz, Lisa Loring, and Christina Ricci - who is also starring in the new series.

With veteran filmmaker Tim Burton at the helm, the series is bound to be injected with a healthy serving of gothic fantasy. Showrunner Al Gough spoke to Vanity Fair about casting the director.

"He was interested in where it was going, and the mystery of the show," he said. "He had a lot of questions about the previous television work we’d done, and how we were able to achieve it.

"He really loved that you had time to be with Wednesday and explore the character and you didn’t have to, you know, wrap things up in an hour and 45 minutes. The ambition for the show was to make it an eight-hour Tim Burton movie."