‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Officially Returning for Season 2: All the Details

Amanda Bell August 17, 2026, 12:09 pm

Bill Skarsgard in It Welcome to Derry — Brooke Palmer / HBO

Fans of Stephen King‘s It headed back to Derry, Maine, for another small town battle with Pennywise the Dancing Clown in It: Welcome to Derry. The prequel series was cocreated by the two-part film series adapter, Andy Muschietti, along with Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs. The show’s first season was set in 1962 and gave screen life to one of the interludes contained in King’s sprawling horror novel, about the Black Spot massacre. From the start, Muschietti & Co. have had a three-season vision for the series, and now the team is hard at work developing Season 2.

So what should fans expect from It: Welcome to Derry Season 2? Here’s a look at everything to know at this time.

Is It: Welcome to Derry renewed for Season 2?

Yes. On August 17, HBO finally announced that the series would be getting a second season, with Brad Caleb Kane as showrunner.

In a statement, the Muschiettis said of the news, “Continuing to explore and expand on the amazing world Stephen King created is an absolute privilege. The support of our partners at HBO and Warner Bros. Television is priceless. Boy do we love our jobs.”

Previously, the Muschiettis made it very clear that from the outset they envisioned both a second and third season will follow the first eight-episode run.

Who will star in It: Welcome to Derry?

No cast for the second season has been announced, but it is very, very likely that Bill Skarsgård would reprise his role as Pennywise for Season 2, while the rest of the cast would be newcomers taking on all-new roles, given the storyline that will potentially be in play (read on for more about that).

When will It: Welcome to Derry Season 2 premiere?

A premiere date has not yet been set for the next season. Season 1 ran from October 26 until December 14 on HBO and HBO Max.

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What will It: Welcome to Derry Season 2 be about?

The logline for Season 2 reads, “Set in the world of Stephen King’s It universe, It: Welcome to Derry is based on King’s It novel and expands the vision established by filmmaker Andy Muschietti in the feature films It and It Chapter Two. Season 2 takes place in 1935 during the Great Depression and centers on the bloody massacre of the Bradley Gang, a group of bank robbers who stop in Derry to buy ammo and end up facing unimaginable horror.”

The second season is expected to explore the story of the Bradley Gang, a group of bandits who descended on Derry to rob local store owners and ended up being shot in a citizens’ ambush … with some bystanders swearing they saw a clown holding a gun. It will take place in 1935, which is one full 27-year cycle before the events of Season 1.

Andy Muschietti told Variety, “There’s gonna be a lot of that depression-era hustling in the air in our characters. Everybody’s trying to get by and survive the circumstances. They are gonna do crazy thing. And of course, the social, cultural, horrible things that were happening in the era, too. We’re not going to skip those. [They are the] very center and the heart of our story.” He also confirmed that the bloodline connections between characters will continue in Season 2, as a “family tree… appears.”

While speaking to TV Insider for our fall preview of Season 1, Muschietti shed more light on what fans could expect from a second season of Welcome to Derry, saying, “It’s not a secret that it is [set in] 1935, so it gravitates around the Bradley gang. In the story, it’s a gang of bank robbers in the age of the Great Depression, and they and they land on Derry because they have no other choice. And what seems to be just a quick stop becomes an infernal entanglement with the town and with It.”

Muschietti went on to add that the second season of the series would also reveal more information to audiences about the Neibolt House, the well house that rests atop Pennywise’s lair in the sewers. “Season 2 is in 1935, so we go back to the origins of Neibolt House: Who built it, and why? And why did it become an abandoned house? So that’s another one of the big mysteries that we’re going to unveil,” he explained.

Plus, after that time travel twist was introduced in the finale for Season 1, Muschietti teased that it could be a point of exploration for the story in Season 2. “When Marge says, ‘What if he’s actually able to travel to the past?’ Open question. But then, this series is a show that’s told backwards. What does that mean? Does that mean that Pennywise can go back and alter the events that we know that happened? Hmmm,” he said.

What would It: Welcome to Derry Season 3 be about?

A third season of It: Welcome to Derry would journey even further back in time to the explosion of the Kitchener Ironworks and the Easter egg hunt, which is the third interlude in the It novel.

It: Welcome to Derry, Season 2, Premiere Date TBA, HBO Max