IT: Welcome to Derry has been a ratings standout for HBO, hitting multiple series highs, culminating with 6.5M U.S. viewers across HBO and HBO Max for the finale within the first three days of availability. At the time of the Dec. 14 finale release, the freshman season had been averaging nearly 20M viewers globally to rank among the Top 3 original series debuts on HBO Max launched, behind only The Last of Us and House of the Dragon.
And yet, more than a month later, the Stephen King adaptation executive produced by Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti is yet to be renewed for a second season. As part of a wide-ranging interview, Deadline asked Casey Bloys why Welcome to Derry has found itself surprisingly in limbo with no renewal after it did so well.
“Let me say, not in limbo at all. Hardly. It was a huge success for us,” he said. “Andy and Barbara 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. One of the challenges is, there’s not a book that you’re basing it on, so it’s invention. They want to make sure that they have a story they’re excited to tell. So it’s not limbo other than they need to land on something they’re excited by creatively. We’ll be there.”
Andy Muschietti told Deadline in December that he is hoping to do a three-season arc. He revealed that he intends for Season 2 to go backward in time to 1935, 27 years before the first season to bring audiences along for yet another of IT’s murderous cycle. The finale also gives a big hint as to why this story is being told backward.
The series is executive produced by Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti through their Double Dream production company alongside Jason Fuchs and Brad Caleb Kane, who also serve as co-showrunners.
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