Tuesday round-up: Latest news, deals & hires

Welcome To Derry returns

HBO Max drama IT: Welcome to Derry has been extended into a second season.

Warner Bros. Television is again producing, with Andy and Barbara Muschietti exec producing. Brad Caleb Kane is showrunner.

Set in the world of Stephen King’s IT universe, Welcome To Derry S2 will take place in 1935 during the Great Depression and centers on the massacre of bank robbers, the Bradley Gang.

BBC1’s The Ministry of Time stars unveiled

Aoife Hinds (Normal People) and Billy Howle (The Perfect Couple) will lead the cast of the upcoming BBC1 drama The Ministry of Time, produced by A24.

The series, which has started filming in London, is based on Kaliane Bradley’s debut novel, adapted by Alice Birch (Normal People). The six-parter will focus on a secret programme gathering ‘expats’ from across history in an experiment to test the viability of time travel.

Howle will play a time traveller who is being helped by Hinds’ government worker to acclimatise, leading to a forbidden romance. It will be co-produced by Amediateka, Bell Media’s Crave, Binge Australia and ZDF with exec producers Alice Birch, Aneil Karia and Jo McClellan for the BBC.

ITVX buys Kevin Can F**k Himself

AMC’s genre-bending multi-camera comedy Kevin Can F**k Himself is heading to ITVX to stream for free from 13 September in the UK.

The series stars Annie Murphy as a prototypical sitcom wife Allison, who is beautiful and able to handle a joke even though she tends to be the butt of it. Her life plays out as a sitcom, where she is married to a guy who is far beneath her looks-wise, but hilarious.

However, when Allison steps out of her husband’s domain, the laughter stops as she wakes up to the injustices of her life.

The series also stars Mary Hollis Inboden, Eric Petersen, Alex Bonifer, Brian Howe and Raymond Lee. The show has been created by Valerie Armstrong and is executive produced by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack through Le Train Train. Craig DiGregorio serves as showrunner.