Welcome to Derry: Eight-episode It prequel debuts on HBO US Oct 26

IT Welcome to Derry, an eight-episode prequel to the Muschietti-directed It films, arrives on HBO and HBO Max in the United States on October 26 and will debut internationally the following day, rolling out one episode each Sunday. Set in 1962 in the cursed Maine town, the series follows the Hanlon family after a boy vanishes and traces the rise of the monstrous entity known as Pennywise decades before the events of the 2017 and 2019 movies. Bill Skarsgård returns as Pennywise while Andy and Barbara Muschietti developed the show with Jason Fuchs.

The series centers on Major Leroy Hanlon, his wife Charlotte and their 12-year-old son Will as they settle near a military base whose presence figures into a growing investigation of missing children. The children of Derry, including Lilly, Ronnie and Will, begin to experience terrifying visions and hallucinations tied to the town’s history. Trailers and early episodes suggest the season will explore the meteor that brought the entity to Derry, the human guise of Bob Gray, and the racially charged burning of the Black Spot, an event referenced in the original novel that the show expands into a central emotional thread.