'It: Welcome to Derry' Hits 5.7 Million Viewers in Three Days, No. 3 HBO Max Premiere Ever Selome HailuOctober 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM 0 Brooke Palmer/HBO "It: Welcome to Derry" hit 5.7 million viewers through in its first three days. That total, a combination of Nielsen measurement of viewers on HBO's linear channel and Warner Bros. Discovery's own data regarding streams on HBO Max, puts the horror series in third place when compared to all other series premieres since HBO Max was launched. Only "House of the Dragon" and "The Last of Us" outrank it, according to WBD.
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"It: Welcome to Derry" hit 5.7 million viewers through in its first three days.
That total, a combination of Nielsen measurement of viewers on HBO's linear channel and Warner Bros. Discovery's own data regarding streams on HBO Max, puts the horror series in third place when compared to all other series premieres since HBO Max was launched. Only "House of the Dragon" and "The Last of Us" outrank it, according to WBD. (The company did not provide three-day totals to make comparisons with, though "House of the Dragon" premiered with just under 10 million viewers and "The Last of Us" premiered with 4.7 million viewers, both measured in just one day.)
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Set in the world established by the 1986 novel "It" by Stephen King, and expanding the cinematic universe from Andy Muschietti's feature films "It" (2017) and "It Chapter Two" (2019), "It: Welcome to Derry" is the origin story of child-hunting clown monster Pennywise. As in the films, Bill Skarsgård plays Pennywise. The cast also includes Jovan Adepo, Taylour Paige, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Blake Cameron James, Arian S. Cartaya, Amanda Christine, Matilda Lawler, Clara Stack, Madeleine Stowe and Rudy Mancuso.
Muschietti developed "It: Welcome to Derry" for television along with his sister Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs. Executive producers include the Muschiettis through their Double Dream production company, Fuchs, Skarsgård, Brad Caleb Kane, David Coatsworth, Shelley Meals, Roy Lee and Dan Lin. Fuchs wrote the first episode and serves as co-showrunner with Kane, while Muschietti directs multiple episodes.
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