Network: Starz
Episodes: TBD (hour)
Seasons: Eight
TV show dates: August 9, 2014 — TBD
Series status: Ending
Performers include: Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Tobias Menzies, Graham McTavish, Gary Lewis, Annette Badland, Stephen Walters, Laura Donnelly, Lotte Verbeek, James Fleet, Duncan Lacroix, Roderick Gilkison, Simon Callow, Grant O’Rourke, Bill Paterson, and Simon Meacock.
TV show description:
This fantasy-dramatic TV show is based on the series of Outlander novels by Diana Gabaldon and takes place in both the 1940s and the 1740s.
Quick-witted and beautiful Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe) is a married combat nurse from 1945 who finds herself mysteriously thrown back in time to 1743 Scotland. Claire and Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, are forced to marry to save her life. A passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire’s heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Jamie is intelligent, principled, and (by 18th century standards) educated, and worldly. He has a tenderness and compassion that stands out in contrast to his contemporaries. A natural leader of men, he has no political ambitions or desire for battlefield glories. Instead, he wishes to remove the price on his head and return to his family’s ancestral farm.
Claire’s husband in her home time period is Frank Randall (Tobias Menzies), an intellectual and an academic. He served in British Intelligence section MI6 during the war as a spymaster, and was responsible for sending men on dangerous missions — some of whom never returned. With the war now over, he’s looking forward to a new career as a historian at Oxford when his wife mysteriously disappears in the Highlands.
Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies) is a Captain in the English Army back in 1743 who has been posted in Scotland during a time when rebellion is in the air. As an officer in an occupying army, he’s seen and done terrible and horrific things in the undeclared war in the Highlands. He’s also a sadist who finds joy in the torment of others — a secret side to himself that he loathes and also has an unhealthy obsession with both Claire and Jamie.
A skilled and experienced warrior, Dougal MacKenzie (Graham McTavish) is the War Chieftain of Clan MacKenzie. His older brother Colum is the ruling Laird, but Dougal is his loyal right hand and the true muscle. He is courageous on the battlefield and is feared by many.
The Laird of the MacKenzie clan is Colum MacKenzie (Gary Lewis), Jamie’s maternal uncle and brother to Dougal. Colum suffers from Toulouse-Lautrec Syndrome, a degenerative disease that renders his legs immobile at times, and fills his days with a great amount of pain. Unable to rule by brawn, he must rely on his cunning and intellect to lead his clan.
Mysterious and dark, Murtagh Fitzgibbons (Duncan Lacroix) dutifully watches over his godson Jamie. Although a reserved man, he’s a very loyal godfather, and lives his life by a strict a code. And he’s more than happy to let his reputation and fists do the talking.
The wife of the procurator fiscal and a good friend to Claire, Geillis Duncan (Lotte Verbeek) has such advanced knowledge of herbs and plants that many believe she is a witch. Geillis is a master manipulator.
Episode #TBD
This TV series has not ended yet.
First aired: TBD
What do you think? Do you like the Outlander TV show? Do you think it should be ending or renewed for a ninth season?
Looking forward to coming season . The books are very entertaining and seeing the characters come to life is such a pleasure.
I love the show and can’t wait for it to come on again. There like family,have to make sure there together and doing well
Renew, renew, renew
Wonderful show! I certainly hope it’s around for many more years.
This is the best series TV has to offer!
Agree, agree, agree!!!!!
It is such a great show. I really look forward to it. Please continue the story
Very compelling show. So good. Renew please.
Please do not cancel. Great show enjoyed by all people I know.
We need to see their reunion!
Great show!!! pleeease don’t cancel
This is the best series! Everyone I know watches it and loves it! Don’t cancel it!
This is the best tv series that has ever been on tv..I would be so broken hearted to see it end…Everyone that I know watches it and talks about it all the time.I enjoy watching it very much..PLEASE continue with it….I have Starz mainly to watch it…Don’t take away the best thing that has been on tv in years..
Definitely would grieve cancelation of this series. There are just so many unanswered questions!
This is the best series that has ever been made for TV. Everything about it is wonderful. It would be a great shame if it was not to continue.
I like the series it seems to follow the book It is the only reason that I have Starz Please don’t cancel it!!!!
I think this is the best series I have ever watched. Didn’t like the last two episodes in season one. But I love Jamie and Claire, they are so good together. Please don’t cancel this series it’s the only reason I have Starz. This is a very interesting series. Love It.