HBO Max and Warner Bros. Television have set an Oct. 26 premiere date for “IT: Welcome to Derry,” an eight-episode prequel series to director Andy Muschietti’s blockbuster IT films, adapted from Stephen King’s 1986 bestseller.

Bill Skarsgård returns as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, terrorizing children in 1962 Derry, Maine, in the first season. Seasons two and three will shift the timeline to 1935 and 1908, respectively.

I never finished the novel, but the IT: Chapter Two movie was so disappointing (let’s be mean to the clown and hurt its feelings to death), I can only hope going back in time will make Pennywise great again…or at least give us a new gang bang (What? I missed the first one!).

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