How To Watch IT: Welcome To Derry – Streaming Details For Prequel Horror Series

How to watch IT: Welcome to Derry from wherever you are in the world.

Oct 26, 2025 October 26th, 2025

Having been in development for the past several years, IT: Welcome to Derry is finally here, taking horror fans back to the titular town for an IT prequel series that explores the 1960s and promises to delve into the origin of the nefarious Pennywise the Dancing Clown.

Developed by the modern-day IT movies' Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, and Jason Fuchs, alongside Brad Caleb Kane of the upcoming Friday the 13th TV series, Crystal Lake, Welcome to Derry has all the potential to be a true standout of 2025 horror, complete with Bill Skarsgard reprising his role as Pennywise.

So, how exactly can you watch the hotly anticipated IT: Welcome to Derry, then? Let's check out the details.

How To Watch IT: Welcome To Derry

Premiere Date: Sunday, 26 October

Time: 9pm ET / 6pm PT / 2am BST (Monday) / 1pm AEDT (Monday)

IT: Welcome to Derry debuts on Sunday, 26 October, with each new episode of this eight-episode season airing each subsequent Sunday, through to the season finale on 14 December.

For those in the United States, IT: Welcome to Derry will air live on HBO and stream on HBO Max, where plans start from $10.99 per month.

If you're tuning in from the UK, the series will air on Sky Atlantic. If you don't have a Sky TV package, you can stream via NOW, which costs £9.99 per month.

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What To Expect From IT: Welcome To Derry

Following the success of 2017's IT and 2019's IT Chapter Two, the murky world of Derry and the sinister Pennywise the Dancing Clown are once again back in the spotlight with IT: Welcome to Derry.

From the director of those IT movies, Andy Muschietti, and the films' producers, Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs, with Brad Caleb Kane serving as showrunner, Welcome to Derry premieres on Sunday, 26 October, and this prequel series takes the action back to the 1960s. To be precise, that action opens up in 1962, as a family moves to Derry, Maine at the same time that a young boy disappears, as the town's dirty little secrets start to come to the fore and its history of missing children is put in the spotlight.

Cast-wise, Taylour Paige (Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F), Jovan Adepo (Watchmen), newcomer Blake Cameron James, and Chris Chalk (Gotham) take centre-stage. Interestingly, Paige, Adepo, and James are playing the Hanlon family, with young Blake's Will Hanlon being the father of Mike Hanlon from the IT movies. Likewise, Chris Chalk is playing the role of another Stephen King favourite: that being Dick Hallorann of The Shining fame.

Of course, bringing added appeal to IT: Welcome to Derry is Bill Skarsgard, who returns to the Pennywise role he brought such intensity and terror to for Andy Muschietti's two IT movies, with Skarsgard also serving as a producer on Welcome to Derry, too.

The official synopsis for IT: Welcome to Derry 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.”

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