Time After Time

Outlander keeps the time travel mythology going with a new prequel series

- TARA BENNETT

PRODUCTION ON Outlander, Starz' hit TV adaptation of author Diana Gabaldon's 10-book series of the same name, was completed in September 2024. That means the eighth and final season airing in 2026 will finish the epic love story of late-1700s Highland soldier Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) and his time-travelling wife Claire (Caitríona Balfe), originally from Second World War-era Scotland.

Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy), and reveal the more mysterious love story of Claire's parents circa the First World War, Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine).

While it was officially greenlit by Starz in 2022, the network, Roberts and Gabaldon managed to withhold the details, keeping things under wraps until the official trailer was released in early July. The assumption in the books and series, that Claire's parents died in a car accident when she was five years old, has covered up the truth that they were actually time travellers using mystical standing stones.

But showrunner Matthew B Roberts has had another ace up his sleeve going back to season five, when he first pitched Gabaldon a prequel series,