Netflix’s Wednesday season 2 cast clicks into gear with Westworld star addition as Apple’s Neuromancer series finds its lead

Two of streaming’s most wanted shows just added even more star power

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There’s good news for fans of William Gibson’sfictional AINeuromancerandWednesday, the ongoing tales of Charles Addams' creepy and kooky family. Both shows' already impressive casts have just announced some equally impressive new additions.

First up, BAFTA award-nominated Callum Turner fromMasters of the AirandThe Boys in the Boatis going to be appearing inNeuromancer. Based on Gibson’s book of the same name, it’s a 10-partApple TV Plusseries following a largely broken top-tier hacker called Case (Turner). Case stumbles into a tangled web of electronic espionage and corporate skulduggery with suitably thrilling results, and the source novel won stacks of literary awards and helped define what would come to be known as cyberpunk.

I’ve got high hopes for this one. I loved Gibson’s books but despite Keanu Reeve’s best efforts inJohhnyMnemonic,which was based on one of Gibson’s short stories, he’s proved hard to adapt well. This new series is coming from the same production company as Foundation, so the omens here are very good indeed.

See you next Wednesday

Every new casting announcement forWednesdayseason twois an exciting one, and fresh from the revelation that Steve Buscemi would be appearing in the second season of theNetflixshow we have another massive name: Thandiwe Newton. Best known for her Emmy-winning role inWestword, Newton was also great in movies such asCrash,BelovedandThe Pursuit of Happyness.

The casting news comes via Variety, which has the exclusive – but unfortunately Variety’s sources don’t yet know any more details. And that’s true of season two more widely. AsVarietysays: “Few details are available about the new season ofWednesday,aside from the fact Jenna Ortega will return as the titular Addams Family daughter going through her teenage years.” The show is one of Netflix’s biggest ever hits and racked up an incredible 12 Emmy nominations, of which it won four – so you can see why Netflix managing to attract such big-name talent for the second season.

BothNeuromancerand season two ofWednesdayare expected to stream this year, although there’s no news of a streaming date for either show just yet.

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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.

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