“IT: Welcome to Derry” has been a major ratings success for HBO, achieving 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 December 14 finale release, the show 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 has yet to be renewed for a second season.
As part of a wide-ranging interview with Deadline, Casey Bloys addressed how the prequel series 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 the outlet in December that he is hoping to do a three-season arc.
Muschietti revealed that he intends for Season 2 to go backwards 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 backwards.
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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