HBO: 'Welcome to Derry' Season 2 awaits Muschiettis' story before renewal

HBO chief Casey Bloys said Monday that IT: Welcome to Derry — one of HBO's biggest hits of 2025 — has not yet been greenlit for a second season because creators are still developing a story, though there is positive movement behind the scenes, Deadline reported. Bloys told Deadline, “It was a huge success for us.

Andy and Barbara [Muschietti, executive producer] are hard at work trying to come up with an idea for a story they'd want to tell for another season. I would happily do it.” He added that one challenge is that “there's not a book that you're basing it on, so it's invention,” and HBO is waiting for the team to “land on something they're excited by creatively.” Andy Muschietti has previously said Season 2 would, “in theory,” unfold in 1935, which would place Pennywise’s next rampage between the show’s 1962 timeline and the later IT films.

The series premise — including the creature’s 27-year cycle of terror — was highlighted in MovieWeb’s coverage of the show. Welcome to Derry served as a prequel to Andy Muschietti’s IT films, rewinding to 1962 and following a new group of children stalked by Bill Skarsgård’s Pennywise while the U.S.

Air Force attempts to harness the creature as a Cold War weapon. The Season 1 finale flashed forward to the suicide of Elfrida Marsh 26 years later and reunited the series with Beverly Marsh, reprised by Sophie Lillis.

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