From the return of The Crazy Addams to the fights of Ryan Murphy and the controversial decision of HBO Max

With Merlina, the Addams family lands on Netflix at the hands of Tim Burton. One of the most anticipated projects by fans of Tim Burton and followers of crazy addams finally got a trailer in advance announcing that the series will be seen this year. In addition, of course, to give fun clues for what is to come. In principle, as was already known, the series will focus on the adventures of Merlina (Wednesday in the English version), the eldest daughter of Homer and Morticia Addams. The biggest unknown factor in the project revolved around its casting Y From what can be seen in the two-minute trailer, fans can breathe easy: Jenna Ortega (scream 5), is the perfect Merlina, dark, sinister, somewhat sadistic and very funny. Worthy daughter of her parents played by Luis Guzman and Catherina Zeta Jones, in the eight episodes of the series, all directed by Burton, the plot will follow the girl as she enters the exclusive and dark school they also attended-and where they fell in love -, His parents.

Truman Capote and his legendary fights will be part of the second part of Feud. Almost six years after the launch of Feud -and after the failed attempt to tell the details of the divorce between Prince Charles and Lady Di-, the miniseries created by Ryan Murphy about the legendary confrontation between Bette Davies and Joan Crawford starring Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange, has just announced a second season focused on the conflicts between the writer Truman Capote and his friends from New York high society. Based on the book by Laurence Leamer Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Erathe cycle that will begin shooting at the end of September and will star British actor Tom Hollander as Capote and Chloë Sevigny who will embody one of his distinguished friends, the fashion designer, actress and society lady CZ Guest, whom the writer exposed in many of his stories. Also appearing in the cast of the miniseries are Naomi Watts, Diane Lane and Calista Flockhart as Capote’s “protectors” and eventual enemies. Director Gus Van Sant, who previously directed an episode from the first season, will return to direct the second.

HBO Max will remove more than 35 series and movies from circulation. Sometimes distribution contracts cause some content to disappear from one day to the next from the channels and platforms where it was usually available. Of course, that usual rule of the audiovisual business cannot be applied to what will happen these days in HBOMax. It is that as part of an aggressive change of strategy of the platform at a global level, from the United States Its directors decided, as of this week, to take many series and films out of circulation, including some originally produced for the service. Although it is not clear if that plan will affect the service worldwide, it is worth warning viewers that from one moment to another they may not find series like Genera+ionthe TV movie My Dinner with Herve and animated loops like Summer Camp Island Y Elliott From Earth, among many other contents that the service decided to eliminate to save the license expenses involved in having them on the air.