‘Wednesday’ Season 2: Everything We Know About The Cast, Premiere Date & More
deadline.comAfter the runaway success of Netflix and Tim Burton‘s Addams Family stand-alone series Wednesday starring Jenna Ortega, the streamer renewed it for second season in January 2023.
That decision came less than three months after the eight-episode Season 1 premiered, eventually becoming the most-watched original series ever on the streamer ever with more than 252 million views to date, far surpassing Stranger Things‘ Season 4, Dahmer and Season 1 of Bridgerton on the all-time list.
Season 1 ending up scoring 12 Emmy nominations, including for Ortega in Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, becoming just the third Latina to ever be nominated in a leading actress category.
The series won four Emmys, though Ortega lost out to Abbott Elementary‘sQuinta Brunson on Emmy night. The Hollywood strikes in 2023 delayed a return to production for the MGM Television-produced series, but in November 2023 it was confirmed that shooting on Season 2 would begin in late April 2024 in Ireland.
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