There’s some big Wednesday news circulating today, and it’s not that Wednesday Addams is coming to Fortnite (though she is). Rather, we have new confirmation that Wednesday season 3 filming is starting earlier than previously thought, after a bit of back and forth about the date.

In a podcast interview with Tommy DiDario, Tyler actor Hunter Doohan said that filming would begin before the end of 2025. That aligns with past reporting that the start date would be on or around November 30, though different than updated news it would be in the first quarter of 2026. Why is this good news? Because one of the problems with Wednesday season 2 was just how long it took to even start filming that season (something Doohan laments in that interview). Now? With that start date, it’s going to be much, much shorter. Here’s the math:

That is a far, far cry from the nearly three-year gap between seasons 1 and 2, which was widely cited as one of the shows that had these absurd gaps between them, along with Stranger Things. Interestingly, while the Wednesday cast very much hated that gap, co-creator of Stranger Things, Matt Duffer, disagreed:

“I get fatigued watching 20-episode seasons. We didn’t grow up interested in any of that. We only watched movies. That’s the weird thing that we ended up in TV, because we had almost zero interest in television. If TV shows come out every year, it’s diminishing return. I like the buildup.”

I think almost no one agrees with that sentiment, and it’s good that at least Wednesday wanted to extract itself from that absurdly long schedule. After Stranger Things season 5, the series is over, so no more waiting years and years for that show to return as its cast ages into full-grown adults because of the endless gap. So, we’ll look for Wednesday season 3 about a year and a half from now.

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