Despite having HBO Max\u2019s third most-watched debut in the platform\u2019s history, \u201cIT: Welcome to Derry\u201d has not yet received a greenlight for the second season.<\/p>\n
Speaking with Deadline<\/a>,\u00a0HBO CEO Casey Bloys provided some clarification about the lack of renewal.<\/p>\n \u201cLet me say, not in limbo at all. Hardly. It was a huge success for us,\u201d he said of the series, which was developed by Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, and Jason Fuchs.<\/p>\n Bloys continues, \u201cAndy and Barbara are hard at work trying to come up with an idea for a story they\u2019d want to tell for another season. I would happily do it.\u201d<\/p>\n He adds, \u201cOne of the challenges is, there\u2019s not a book that you\u2019re basing it on, so it\u2019s invention. They want to make sure that they have a story they\u2019re excited to tell. So it\u2019s not limbo other than they need to land on something they\u2019re excited by creatively. We\u2019ll be there.\u201d<\/p>\n Serving as a prequel to\u00a0Muschietti\u2019s IT films based on Stephen King\u2018s classic novel, the first season of \u201cIT: Welcome to Derry\u201d went back to 1962 to explore the origins of the evil, shape-shifting entity known as Pennywise.<\/p>\n The second season is expected<\/a> to take place in 1935, with a proposed third season to be set in 1908.<\/p>\n Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd reprises his role as Pennywise. Jovan Adepo (\u201cThe Stand\u201d), Taylour Paige\u00a0(The Toxic Avenger), Chris Chalk\u00a0(\u201cGotham\u201d), James Remar (\u201cDexter\u201d), Stephen Rider (\u201cDaredevil\u201d), Madeleine Stowe (12 Monkeys), and Rudy Mancuso\u00a0(The Flash) lead the ensemble.<\/p>\n Ranked as one of Bloody Disgusting\u2019s 10 Best Horror Television Series of 2025<\/a>, \u201cIT: Welcome to Derry\u201d Season 1 is now streaming on HBO Max and hits physical media<\/a> on May 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite having HBO Max\u2019s third most-watched debut in the platform\u2019s history, \u201cIT: Welcome to Derry\u201d has not yet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,17588,391,56,54,55,27454],"class_list":["post-400445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-it-welcome-to-derry","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-welcome-to-derry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}