In August of last year, Starz renewed Outlander for a second season after only one episode of the series had aired. Now, there are rumors that season two has been cancelled. What’s going on?
The Outlander series revolves around Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe), a married combat nurse from 1945. She finds herself mysteriously thrown back in time, to 1743 Scotland, and forced to marry another man to save her life. A passionate affair is ignited. The rest of the cast includes 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.
As fans of the series know all too well, Outlander is currently on hiatus. Starz decided to split the first season’s 16 episodes into two groups. The first eight finished airing in late September and the second set will begin running on April 4th. It’s a long wait but the Outlander TV show will certainly be back.
While the show doesn’t draw big ratings, it’s doing very well for Starz. The audience grew quite a bit over the course of the first eight episodes. The mid-season finale drew 1.42 million viewers — nearly twice as many as watched the series debut. Networks and cable channels really like to see that kind of trend.
It seems that the cancellation rumor stems from a site called National Report which creates fictional stories with just enough credible information in them to make them believeable.
Starz has not cancelled their plans for a second season of Outlander. The cable channel is heavily promoting the second half of the first season and Outlander author Diana Gabaldon has also confirmed that the cancellation is a hoax.
This month, executive producer Ronald D. Moore confirmed that filming of season two will begin in May. The story will take some of the characters to another country but production will continue to be based in Scotland.
Here’s a preview for the rest of season one, as well as a preview scene:
What do you think? Are you looking forward to the return of Outlander?
Outlander is one of the best time traveling shows of alltime i hope they don’t cancelled they always cancel the good shows my mother in law got me to watch this and i fell in love with the show she read the book’s and was telling me stuff that’s going to happen and i can’t wait to watch it
I love this series! Very well done screen adaptation of the books by Diana Gabaldon. Moore does an excellent job of character development and showing what sacrifice is about, as well as what it takes to be a man and woman of honor. As well as how choices we make are important. This series is so far above the rest of what there is out there to watch. Hoping there are many seasons/episodes to come!
This is the best show ever, I think this is even better then the Tudors on the other channel, as far as I am concern continue on forever, just love it ca not get enough. Watch it over and over again.
The best hate to wait a week in between
Best show on TV hoping for season 3!
Love love “Outlander”! One of the few shows I can say that about. Keep it coming and absolutely no talk on cancellation.
If they cancel it after the second season, there will be HELL to pay. Just saying.
Excellent production of Galbaldon’s Outlander, which I’ve read three times plus the following seven books. Keep it on the air. Compared to what is majority of television dramas, this is a class act. Please add subtitles for hearing impaired persons and also subtitle interpretations of the Gaelic!!
Best show ever. Perfect in every way. Photography is awesome.
Outlander is the BEST show! I’m going that all books are turned into a season!! There are thousands of us who would fight to have it on for years to come.
I love the show- look forward to watching it. I love the love scenes between Claire and Jamie. don’t take this from us. KEEP THIS SHOW
STARZ will be in DEEP DOO IF they even THINK to cancel the show before the books are done they have a gold mine of LOYAL followers and the cast is AWESOME there are so many things that can be done with these books characters settings oh my!!!! LIVE ON JAMMF……………………………………………
I can’t wait for the second season of Outlander and I dearly hope there’s many more seasons to come. It is the only reason we subscribe to Starz. It is the best show. The actors are fantastic. Please have more seasons with at least 16 episodes. So much happens in Diana Gabaldons’s books it’d be hard to cover it all in a short season.
Outlander is so fantastic! All the contributors have done a fantastic job in putting this show together — I would like to see them do every book! I am telling everyone to watch it! Best show I’ve seen in a very long time!
Outlander is one of the best shows to be on television in a long time. I have been reading the books and actually added STARZ to our programming just so I could see the series. Moore has done a wonderful job with the cast, making them so believable to the characters I have read about in the books. I even have my husband watching and enjoying! I am not alone, there are so many Facebook and Twitter sites since this program first aired. I sincerely hope the program will continue!
Emily Doucher