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?
Love, love, love this series. We need more seasons!
Without a doubt renewed for next 10 seasons. Best show on TV
I like the series but you have lost the sense of humor between Jamie and Clair! Small things that make the couple endearing.
Please continue with this show. Love it.
Love this series! Please do not cancel and btw do a sequel to The White Queen.
The is the best made for TV series there is. I purchased Starz only because they are putting this epic story out there for Diana’s fans. If they cancel Outlander, they will loose me as a customer.
My favorite show on TV. I can hardly wait for it to come back on.
One of Starz best series! Want it back!
SO should be renewed. easy to get caught up in the story and feel Claire’s torn emotions. Love, love, love to binge watch this one……over and over.
I believe the series should continue.
Seldom have I seen anything I’ve hated more. Boring, stupid, retrograde, hogwash and not at all feminist (as it claims to be). Not only should this show be cancelled, the creators of the show should be executed.
Outlander is the best TV series I have ever watched. The actors are phenomenal. Can’t get enough and can’t wait for season two.
PLEASE do NOT cancel Outlander. I LOVE it and can hardly wait for the new season. Each episode leaves me wanting more and sad that it ends and I have to wait another week.
This is the best show on TV. I have read all of the books over and over. The show is fairly true to the books. Please, please do not cancel. There is nothing else worth watching for older viewers.
Completely agree. Love this series. Best ever.
I love love love this show. So refreshing from all the other series playing.. Please don’t cancel.