HBO renews 'IT: Welcome to Derry' for a second season [sinopsis y teaser]

It's OFFICIAL.

HBO has renewed IT: Welcome to Derry for a second season.

The prequel series to the two films IT premiered its first season in HBO Max in October 2025, becoming one of the three best original series premieres since the launch of HBO Max.

With such a reception from the audience and critics, it was practically guaranteed that HBO would quickly renew it for a second season, and although since the end of the first season the brothers Andy Muschietti y Bárbara Muschietti They spoke out assuring that there would be a next season and they were working on the material, official confirmation from the network was missing, which we received today.

Andy is the director of both installments ITand is on board Welcome to Derry as director, screenwriter and executive producer, while Barbara is the executive producer. The Muschietti brothers developed the story of the series, with a script by Jason Fuchs (producer of IT: Chapter Two).

WE ALREADY HAVE THE OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS OF THE SECOND SEASON

The Muschietti brothers have been clear from the beginning that the series will be told in three seasons that They will take place in different times: 1962, 1935 y 1908respectively in that order.

Thus the first season of IT: Welcome to Derry It takes place primarily in 1962, in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, in the time preceding the events of IT: Chapter One (2017), addressing the origin story of Pennywise the Clown (with the return of Bill Skarsgård), as well as the dawn of the 27-year-old curse that haunts the small Maine town.

The second season goes back to 1935 and takes place during the Great Depression. According to the synopsis, the story:

“It centers on the bloody massacre of the Bradley Gang, a group of bank robbers who stop in Derry to buy ammunition and end up facing unimaginable horror.”

The inspiration is the interludes written by Mike Hanlon in the novel by Stephen Kingwhich document “catastrophic events” from the past of Derry, Maine. Each season addresses one of them: the first of these events, “The Black Spot” was portrayed in the first season, and as we mentioned, the Bradley Gang massacre in the second season, and finally Kitchener Ironworks explosion in the third season.

Andy Muschetti previously revealed that “There's a reason the story is told backwards.”

The executive producers are the Muschietti brothers, Fuchs and Brad Caleb Kane. Kane was co-showrunner for the first season alongside Fuchs, and for the second season he will be the sole showrunner. Skarsgård, Roy Lee, David Coastsworth, Shelley Meals, and Dan Lin are also executive producers.

The series is produced by HBO and Warner Bros. Television.

At this time, the cast for the second season has not been announced.

Check out the teaser confirming the next season: