Back in black

Jenna Ortega and Catherine Zeta-Jones are joined by Dame Joanna Lumley as the Addams Family spin-off returns

- Rebecca Mahoney

NEW FANTASY DRAMA Wednesday From Wednesday 6 August, Netflix

They're creepy, kooky and now they're even spookier! The Addams family return with fabulously freaky new additions and a fresh bone-chilling mystery as Wednesday is back for Season 2 this week.

From director Tim Burton, this latest run (shown in two four-episode parts, with the first volume out this week and the second launching from Wed 3 Sept) catches up with budding novelist and part-time detective Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) as she returns to Nevermore Academy as somewhat of a celebrity following her monster-slaying heroics in Season 1.

This time, though, her brother, Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez), is joining the school for supernaturally gifted children, and parents Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Gomez (Luis Guzmán) are moving on to campus, too.

But when Wednesday receives a deadly message from her stalker and her psychic visions spell a grisly future for her roommate, Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers), can her deliciously eccentric grandmother, Hester Frump (Dame Joanna Lumley), help dig her out of danger?

Here, Ortega, 22, and Zeta-Jones, 55, reveal more...

Where do we find the Addams family now?

Ortega We start off with Wednesday being kidnapped, and it's a great opening sequence. Wednesday has improved her psychic ability over the summer, too, but she abuses it and ruins it for herself. Her visions kind of malfunction and she ends up with black tears.