A seminal work of modern horror, It is an epic of friendship, suffering, and evil—on a personal, societal, and supernatural scale—that forever turned clowns into figures of unspeakable terror. Twice adapted for the screen,

It: Welcome to Derry will be released on October 26, 2025, on HBO and HBO Max. The television series will consist of nine episodes, which will follow a weekly release pattern. So, here’s the release schedule for you to follow:

Welcome to Derry,” is not for the squeamish. The eight-episode origin story of Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) takes place in 1962 and serves as a prequel to “It” (2018) and its sequel “It: Chapter Two” (2019).

IT: Welcome to Derry, the prequel series set in the same continuity as the two IT movies released in 2017 and 2019, approaches its air date this Sunday.

HBO’s new series, a prequel to Andy Muschietti’s two ‘It’ movies, awakens an earlier incarnation of Pennywise.

Welcome to Derry series doesn’t waste a single second before plunging viewers straight into horror. According to director-producer duo Andy and Barbara Muschietti , the show’s opening scene is a full-blown nightmare of death,

Bigelow is the master of translating complex events into gripping and plausible cinema, as anyone who saw her terrific film about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty, will know. A House of Dynamite is her most believable – and haunting – film yet.

IT: Welcome to Derry. Brooke Palmer/HBO. Set in 1962, the new HBO series IT: Welcome to Derry functions as a prequel to the two IT feature films from 2017 and 2019. In those films