It: Welcome To Derry — An Empire Podcast Special, In Association With Warner Bros.

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Empire Magazine

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

They all float down here. Now that It: Welcome To Derry, the prequel to Andy Muschietti's It Chapter One and It Chapter Two, has finished its eight-episode run, the Empire Podcast has teamed up with Warner Bros. to bring you a special episode in which Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, and James Dyer conquer their fears of clowns, spiders, and spider-clowns just long enough to talk about the Andy Muschietti/Barbara Muschietti/Jason Fuchs-created show, its Stephen King connections, its brand new characters, its setting (1962 Derry, Maine), and, of course, Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise, The Dancing Clown, who's back for another bout of bloody mayhem. While not a spoiler special, our very own Losers Club do delve into the show's major twists and turns, so if you haven't seen all eight episodes, they're available to buy now on digital platforms, or you can pre-order them on DVD, Blu-ray, 4K UHD or steelbook from warnerbros.co.uk

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0:00.0	Hello Pod, I'm Chris Hewitt, and welcome to a very special episode of the Empire
0:19.8	podcast in association with our chums at Warner Brothers.
0:24.7	And this is dedicated to It Welcome to Dairy.
0:29.4	Oh, or should I say, It, Welcome to Dairy, Chapter 1.
0:36.5	Oh, because that was one of the big revelations at the end of the final episode,
0:42.7	the eighth episode of the first season of It.
0:47.7	Welcome to Derry, the prequel, of course, to Andy Mushietti's It Chapter 1
0:52.4	and It Chapter 2, his adaptation of the Stephen King
0:55.9	classic horror novel. Yes, this is just Chapter 1 of the TV prequels, folks. We're going to be
1:05.1	returning to Derry at some point soon, and maybe 27 years earlier. Exciting stuff.
1:12.3	And join me to discuss it.
1:13.9	Welcome to Derry.
1:15.3	Are a dairy girl and a dairy boy, all of our own.
1:20.8	They all float it down here.
1:22.4	I'm talking, of course, about Helen O'Hara.
1:25.6	Hello.
1:26.2	Hello, Helen.
1:27.0	You are very much our Pennywise. Oh, thank you. Yes. And James Dyer. Beep, beep, Chrissy. James, of course, is pound foolish. True, true story. Yeah. You're not, though. You're very good with money, actually. Thank you. Yeah. I mean, you're tight. Right, okay. That mean it's fair yeah you keep a clasped close to your chest you have one of those little purses that you put your pound coins I keep all of my money in a lockbox in my mind sealed away safely like Dick Halloran just like Dick Halloran yes yes yes yes Dick Halloran did Yes. Yes, yes, yes.
2:03.8	Dick Halloran did not expect to see him in this show.
2:04.9	But that's interesting, isn't it? Because this was pitched and out there as an origin story for it as a kind of prequel to it.
2:10.2	But it's also a kind of a law-building origin story for The Shining and then Doctor Sleep as well.
2:15.1	Yes.
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