Some really great news to help us get over the longest ever Droughtlander.
Starz ® announced during #WorldOutlanderDay on Twitter that it’s a wrap on Season 6. Here’s what we know so far:
There was an apologetic celebration on Outlander_Starz announcing that due to the
difficulties of dealing with a world pandemic and restrictions on filming and production, they have decided to have Season 6 end after the 8th episode. Sounds a little ominously GOT to me. However, they have promised to return with a longer Season 7, with a promise of 16 episodes and a Season 6 opener of 90 minutes length. Plenty of time to set up the aftermath of Claire’s ordeal and recovery at the end of Season 5 in “Never My Love”.
The time travel adventure will take on two of Diana Gabaldon’s books in the series, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, and An Echo in The Bone. Given it takes Gabaldon anywhere from 5 plus years to write a book, with her 9th book Tell The Bees That I Am Gone, due out this fall, we wonder if Season 7 may be the last season. Indeed since one more book is planned, the writers, who have already changed and added storylines, will no doubt have to wrap up the series. We are hoping we can see it reach a Season 8, and finally the mystery of the Ghost of Jamie in Inverness in the 1940’s will finally be explained.
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And new pictures have arrived! What we do know, is that Claire (Caitriona Balfe) will be recovering from her kidnapping and rape, only to have a whole other ordeal to live with coming to the ridge. The seeds of the American Revolution have been sown, and war is on the horizon. Fergus and Marsali continue to add to their family, and that if one of the book storylines is brought in, the MacKenzies may just make it back to the 1970’s as war becomes more of a reality.
The Season 6 Episodes so far titled are:
- “Echos”, written by Matthew B. Roberts
- “Allegiance”, written by Steve Kornacki and Alyson Evans
- “Temperance”, written by Shaina Fewell
- TBA
- TBA
- “The World Turned Upside Down”, written by Toni Graphia
- TBA
- TBA
We have perhaps our first glimpse of Amanda, Brianna (Sophie Skelton) and Roger’s (Richard Rankin) daughter?
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New relationships (Beardsleys and Lizzie) will blossom on The Ridge, as well as a powder keg of ideals with religion, loyalties to King, or the new forming country.
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Returning for Season 6 are: Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Sophie Skelton, David Berry as Lord John Grey, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Cesar Domboy, John Bell, Lauren Lyle, Caitlin O’Ryan, and Colin McFarlane.
Keep an eye out in these pages as we confirm this season’s locations and add them to our inclusive list of Outlander Locations. It was a season of very well kept locals for production and Covid standards expediency. So once travel get’s back to normal, we are all heading back to the highlands, lowlands and all places in between.
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So now watch Happy World Outlander Day with your fellow fans, where you will see old friends and new characters. See who is returning and joining the cast here:
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Excellent 🙂 Five eps. shorter S06 is sad to know & blasted covid-19 crap for causing it. Wonder if extended S07 gonna have second longest season format which is sixteen eps. That would be good as twenty or twenty would be too long. Hope this series gets at least eight seasons & final to have 10-13 eps.
That would cover the books & paired number always rocks the socks 😛 Outlander series deserves all the praise so sharing good word about it is always nice ^^ Good new week & september 🙂
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It really depends on how they decide to combine up books and add their own twist on things. Diana is about to publish the 2nd to the last book. Sadly, I think this is going to go the way of GOT with the last season cramming a lot in, and even if they finally do bring in Jamie’s ghost thing, who says the final season will round things up. I hope they make it to Season 8. One article I read had Heughan hinting he didn’t think it would get past 8 seasons. With what has happened to Poldark and other series, the writers and producers will create as long as they have the backing.
Although, they could slide it over direct to Netflix. They were going to kill off Lucifer and the fans went crazy. Outlander fans are 10 times the force of that fandom.
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