In a few weeks, the Addams Family series Wednesday is debuting its second season on Netflix. Good news for fans of the show: it’s already been renewed for a third.
Creator Tim Burton and star Jenna Ortega just broke the news in a Hollywood Reporter cover story about their working together on the show and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. They were both understandably tight-lipped on further details, but showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar talked about their hopes for a seven-season run. (Nevermore Academy, the show’s primary location, has a seven-year tenure for its students.) Netflix themselves confirmed the news shortly thereafter, with a new poster posted to social media:
Season 2 awakens in two weeks. Season 3 is the next omen, already in motion, already inevitable. pic.twitter.com/Y62XbKtDQf
— Wednesday Addams (@wednesdayaddams) July 23, 2025
Along with the new season, Gough teased that the show’s creative team is reportedly looking at building a spinoff around…someone. Details on this were described as “top secret,” and things are in the earliest of discussions. But Netflix’s CCO Bela Bajaria said, “There’s a lot to explore in the Addams Family.” Take from that what you will!
As far as season two goes, Ortega said there was “a lot more trust this time around” from Netflix, likely owing to season one being such a hit to win some Emmys. As such, the crew could “do things on a grander scale and spend more time on sequences.” Neither delved into specifics, but Burton indicated they wanted to avoid intentionally making something that could top season one’s viral dance moment. That scene, he said, “was the most fun I had on the show because we just let it go. We didn’t think about it this time because we didn’t think about [the dance] being a big deal to begin with. It gets dangerous to say, ‘We have to do something like this again.’”
The first part of Wednesday season two hits Netflix on August 6, then part two drops September 3.
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