Tim Burton is making a live-action Addams Family spinoff about Wednesday for Netflix

Netflix announced that Tim Burton is making his directorial TV debut with a series based on Wednesday Addams, called, of course, Wednesday. This “live-action coming-of-age comedy” will follow Wednesday of The Addams Family through her school years as a student at Nevermore Academy, where she “attempts 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.” Burton will executive-produce the eight-episode series, which does not yet have a cast announced.