Wednesday - Season 1

Production: Timeline, news & updates

• October 2020
  • Famed director Tim Burton is announced as helming a new and untitled Addams Family project. Burton will serve as both director and executive producer of the series, with Alfred Gough and Miles Millar to be the showrunners. (Source: Deadline Hollywood)
• May 2021
  • Jenna Ortega is cast as Wednesday Addams. (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)
• August 2021
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzman and the majority of the cast are revealed. (Source: Deadline Hollywood)
• September 2021
  • Filming begins in Bucharest, Romania. (Source: Midgard Times)
• March 2022
  • The public learns that Christina Ricci, who previously played Wednesday Addams in the 1991 Addams Family film and its sequel in 1993, will play a role in the series. (Source: Deadline Hollywood)
• June 6, 2022
  • Netflix releases a short clip showing Jenna Ortega in character as Wednesday Addams. (Source: Youtube)
• August 11, 2022
  • A still image is released showing Wednesday Addams in a modern gothic style, hinting at the shows overall aesthetic. (Source: ScreenRant)
• August 17, 2022
  • Set photos show the Addams family together for the first time with Luis Guzman and Catherine Zeta-Jones stealing the show. (Source: ScreenRant)
• August 17, 2022
  • The murderous side of Wednesday Addams takes center stage in the new trailer for the show. Her expulsion from a regular school and induction into Nevermore Academy is teased in the first footage from Season 1. (Source: ScreenRant)
• August 24, 2022
  • Jenny Ortega reveals that Wednesday is an outcast, who 'says the things that everyone wishes they could say'. These details emerge from a featurette that also hints at some murder-mystery influences in the story. (Source: Collider)
• September 12, 2022
  • New images of Wednesday's school, Nevermore Academy, are revealed online. One of the photos shows the student body standing for a picture in the school court yard with an eerie looking tree. (Source: screen Rant)
• September 23, 2022
  • Netflix announces a release date for Wednesday: it will premier November 23, 2022. (Source: Collider)
• October 8, 2022
  • Netflix releases a new trailer that reveals Christina Ricci's character and Uncle Fester. (Source: Deadline)
• November 10, 2022
  • Series director, Tim Burton reveals the process and thinking behind creating the Nevermore Academy in a newly released featurette. (Source: Deadline)
• November 23, 2022
  • Wednesday was released on Netflix. (Source: Netflix)