Overview

• The series debuts Sunday, Oct. 26 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO with streaming on HBO Max, with new episodes weekly through a Dec. 14 season finale.
• Season 1 is set in 1962 Derry and explores the prior 27-year cycle that precedes the events depicted in the 1980s timeline.
• Bill Skarsgård returns as Pennywise, with Brad Caleb Kane and Jason Fuchs as showrunners and Andy and Barbara Muschietti as executive producers.
• Andy Muschietti says the show expands Pennywise’s mythology and begins answering long-standing questions, with a reported plan to move further back in time in subsequent seasons.
• Stephen King praised the first episode as “amazing and terrifying,” while outlets differ on the season length, reporting either eight or nine episodes.