'IT: Welcome To Derry' breaks its audience record with the end of the first season

Last Sunday, December 14, HBO y HBO Max They broadcast the finale of the first season of the series that has become a favorite of the year for many, IT: Welcome to Derrya prequel series to the two films ITwhich takes us back to where THAT began.

The end of Chapter One (or first season) swept views, breaking its audience record.

The episode titled “Winter Fire” attracted 6.5 million US viewers on HBO and HBO Max in first three days of availabilityaccording to information shared by Warner Bros. Discovery. This represents an increase of 12% compared to the audience of the penultimate episodewhich was previously the best in the series.

According to WBD, the first season averages almost 20 million viewers worldwide and 11.5 million in the United States.

The first episode of the first season reached 5.7 million viewers in the United States during the first three days of availability on HBO and the streamer.

After the end of its season, HBO makes it official that IT: Welcome to Derry remains among the top 3 premieres of original series since the launch of HBO Max, only behind The Last of Us y House of the Dragon.

This is a promising end to the first season, which offered some answers about the supernatural monster stalking Derry, as well as the creature's fascination with Pennywise the Clown. The season finale also raised many more questions that will surely be answered in the story arc that is planned to be three seasons in total.

Andy Muschietti (director of both installments IT), is the executive producer, screenwriter, and director of Welcome to Derry. Muschietti plans three seasons for the series, which They will take place in different times: 1962, 1935 y 1908respectively in that order.

The first season of Welcome to Derry takes us back to the place where THAT beganlocating its plot in 1962in the period preceding the events of IT: Chapter One (2017).

This includes the origin story of Pennywise the Clownas well as the dawn of the 27 year curse that stalks the small town of Maine.

The inspiration is the interludes written by Mike Hanlon in the novel by Stephen Kingwhich document “catastrophic events” from the past of Derry, Maine.

“Every time [Pennywise] comes out of hibernation, there is a catastrophic event that happens at the beginning of that cycle [el incendio en Black Spot, la masacre de la Banda Bradley, la explosión de Kitchener Ironworks]. We are basing all three seasons of this series on each of these catastrophic events. “There is a reason why history is told backwards,” Muschietti previously explained.

The end of season 1 gives a big clue as to why this story is told backwards.

Andy y Bárbara Muschietti They are the executive producers along with Jason Fuchs y Brad Caleb Kane as coshowrunners and executive producers. Skarsgård, Roy Lee, David Coastsworth, Shelley Meals, and Dan Lin are also executive producers.

Fuchs co-produced IT: Chapter Two; Andy directed both the 2017 and 2019 adaptations, while Barbara produced them. The Muschietti brothers, together with Fuchs, developed the story of the series, with Fuchs as the screenwriter. Andy Muschietti directed four of the nine episodes of the first season.

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