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HBO Renews It: Welcome to Derry for Season 2
HBO has renewed It: Welcome to Derry for season two, extending its prequel series based on Stephen King's It.
The first season takes place in 1962 and follows children and adults caught up in horrors in the Maine town of Derry.
The new season will move back to 1935, during the Great Depression.
Its story will center on the Bradley Gang massacre, after the bank robbers arrive in Derry seeking ammunition.
The massacre is one of several historical atrocities linked to Pennywise's appearances in King's It.
HBO has not announced the cast or a release date for the new season.
HBO has renewed It: Welcome to Derry for a second season.
The new season will move the story back from 1962 to 1935, during the Great Depression.
It will center on the massacre of the Bradley Gang, bank robbers who arrive in Derry to buy ammunition.
HBO has not announced casting or a release date for the season.
The series is a prequel to Andy Muschietti’s films It and It: Chapter Two.
- Who
- HBO renewed It: Welcome to Derry, created by Andy and Barbara Muschietti.
- What
- The series will return for a second season.
- When
- HBO announced the renewal on Oct. 25, 2026. A release date for season 2 has not been announced.
- Where
- Derry, Maine.
- Why
- Not stated.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The first season takes place in Derry, 27 years before the events of the first It movie.
HBO announced that It: Welcome to Derry had been renewed for a second season.
The story will move back to 1935 and center on the Bradley Gang massacre.
- Renewed by
- HBO
- Season 2 setting
- Derry, Maine, in 1935
- Season 1 setting
- 1962
- Historical event
- The Bradley Gang massacre
- Release date
- Not announced
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