IT: Welcome To Derry

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In new HBO prequel series IT: Welcome to Derry, we return to the clown who keeps on giving. Based on the Stephen King novel and a prequel to the films It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019), the show finds a whole new crop of kids being terrorized by whatever lives underneath their little town in Maine. And at the nearby military base, some of the local adults are acting pretty sketchy, too. There is a lot going on and a lot of it is very bloody. Bill Skarsgård returns as Pennywise, but be patient since it takes a while to lay eyes on him.

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0:19.5	Stephen King's novel, It, has been made into a mini-series and a couple of movies, and now it's
0:25.5	time to return again to the clown who keeps on giving. The new HBO prequel series, It,
0:31.8	Welcome to Dairy, finds a whole new crop of kids being terrorized and devoured by whatever
0:37.3	lives underneath their little
0:38.8	town in Maine. And at the nearby military base, some of the local adults are acting pretty
0:44.7	sketchy too. I'm Linda Holmes, and today on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we're talking about it.
0:51.0	Welcome to Dairy.
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1:04.7	co-creator of Yellowstone. Academy Award winner Billy Bob Thornton is back,
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