"Outlander" Prequel Series "Blood of My Blood" Gets August Premiere Date

“Outlander: Blood of My Blood” will debut on Starz on August 8, followed by weekly drops on Fridays.

The series is a prequel to “Outlander,” which premiered on Starz in 2014 and has run for seven seasons with an eighth season incoming. “Blood of My Blood” will introduce a new cast and characters, while also giving origin stories to characters from the original series and new points of view on some of the original's events.

The prequel follows two main couples: Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine) as well as Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) and Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy), the parents of Claire Randall (Caitríona Balfe) and Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), the leading couple of “Outlander.” 

Per the official logline, the new series “brings viewers from the war-torn battlefields of WWI to the sweeping Highlands of 18th century Scotland, promising two new love stories filled with loyalty, passion and desire, as the young couples defy the forces that seek to tear them apart.”

“Outlander: Blood of My Blood” also features Tony Curran as Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, Séamus McLean Ross as Colum MacKenzie, Sam Retford as Dougal MacKenzie, Rory Alexander as Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser, and Conor MacNeill as Ned Gowan.

The prequel is developed by Matthew B. Roberts, who serves as showrunner and executive producer. Ronald D. Moore, Maril Davis, and Jim Kohlberg also executive produce. The series hails from Sony Pictures Television.