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Season eight will be the show’s final season.
In January 2023, Starz confirmed that the show would return for one final season.
“For nearly a decade, ‘Outlander’ has won the hearts of audiences worldwide, and we’re pleased to bring Claire and Jamie’s epic love story to a proper conclusion,” said Kathryn Busby, Starz’s original programming president, in a statement at the time.
The new season will consist of 10 episodes, which have already been filmed.
When announcing that production had begun on the show’s prequel — “Outlander: Blood of My Blood” — in February 2024, Starz confirmed that the “10-episode eighth season [of Outlander]… will begin production shortly in Scotland.”
Balfe and Heughan shared behind-the-scenes glimpses with fans throughout the summer of 2024, including photos from the final episode readthrough.
The two then filmed the very last episode of Outlander in September 2024.
Sam Heughan, Caitríona Balfe, and the rest of the main cast are all expected to return for the final episodes.
“Outlander” wouldn’t be “Outlander” without its two main stars, who are set to return for season eight.
The pair, who have also acted as executive producers since season five, play 18th-century Scottish warrior Jamie Fraser and his time-hopping wife Claire Randall Fraser.
The couple’s daughter, Brianna MacKenzie (Sophie Skelton), and her husband, Roger MacKenzie (Richard Rankin), will also be back on screen.
Other supporting characters audiences can expect to return include Buck MacKenzie (Diarmaid Murtagh), Young Ian (John Bell), Lord John Grey (David Berry), William Ransom (Charles Vandervaart), Fergus (César Domboy), and Marsali MacKimmie (Lauren Lyle).
Recently introduced characters such as the Hunter siblings, Rachel and Denzell (Izzy Meikle-Small and Joey Phillips), will also likely be back, as well as Fanny Pocock (Florrie May Wilkinson).
The final installment may finally answer questions about the appearance of Jamie’s ‘ghost’ in season one.
Fans have been asking for an explanation about the appearance of Jamie’s “ghost” in the pilot episode of the show for years.
It’s expected that the final season will finally explain how and why Jamie was able to see Claire in 1945 before she took her life-changing tumble through the standing stones.
However, it’s not the only mystery left unsolved.
As revealed in the season seven finale, Jamie and Claire’s infant daughter Faith may have survived after all.
The episodes will be based roughly on the events of the ninth “Outlander” novel but will diverge from Diana Gabaldon’s planned ending.
While early seasons of the show roughly adapted one book per season, that hasn’t been the case in recent years.
The most recent seventh season incorporated elements and storylines from three different “Outlander” installments, “A Breath of Snow and Ashes,” “An Echo in the Bone,” and “Written in My Own Heart’s Blood.”
Audiences can expect to see the eighth season follow the storyline of the most recently published book, “Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone.”
But like “Game of Thrones,” another much-loved TV drama adapted from a long-running series of books, “Outlander” will likely end its run on television before the final novel is released.
Although Gabaldon has a close working relationship with the showrunners, audiences can expect the “Outlander” novels and “Outlander” television series to have different endings.
It’s not the end of “Outlander” as a spinoff is on the way.
However, fans won’t have to say goodbye to “Outlander” for good, as a prequel series is coming.
“Outlander: Blood of My Blood” will tell two parallel origin stories: how Jamie’s parents came to meet and Claire’s parents’ war-time romance. It will air in the summer of 2025.
In the 18th-century Scotland storyline, Harriet Slater, best known for her role in “Pennyworth,” will play Jamie’s mother, Ellen MacKenzie. Actor Jamie Roy will play his father, Brian Fraser.
Claire’s parents’ story unfolds in World War I-era England. Hermione Corfield will star as Claire’s mother, Julia Moriston, while Jeremy Irvine will play her father, Henry Beauchamp.
