Outlander favourite lands huge new role in highly-anticipated romance series
Tobias Menzies, who is best known for portraying Jonathan 'Black Jack' Randall in the Starz show Outlander, has joined the cast of a star-studded new series. Menzies, also famed for playing Prince Philip in Netflix's The Crown, is set to star in upcoming Apple TV+ show Prodigies, which will also star The Bear's Ayo Edebiri and The White Lotus star Will Sharpe.
Created by Sharpe, the series follows two ex-child prodigies in their early 30s, who are starting to question whether their very ordinary existence is living up to the exceptional potential they once showed in childhood.
The ensemble also includes your Honor's Andrene Ward-Hammond, Loki actress Sophia Di Martino, Nabhaan Rizwan from Netflix 's Kaos, Roar star Meera Syal and The Franchise's Lolly Adefope.
Fans of Netflix's Black Doves will also be thrilled to know that Prodigies comes from the same series producer, Sister.
Meanwhile, Sharpe and Edebiri serve as Executive Producers alongside Jane Featherstone, Naomi de Pear and Katie Carpenter.
White Lotus fans will recognise Sharpe from season 2, where he played Ethan opposite Aubrey Plaza's Harper in the HBO show.
He also more recently appeared as Felix in Netflix's Too Much, which was created by Girls star Lena Dunham.
Meanwhile, Menzies has appeared in some of the biggest shows on television, including Outlander, The Crown and Game of Thrones.
He played one of Outlander's most notorious villains for 24 episodes between 2014 and 2018, starring opposite show leads Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan.
Outlander is returning for its eighth and final season in early 2026, with an exact release date yet to be announced.
However, Outlander fans have plenty to look forward to in the meantime, as prequel series Outlander: Blood of My Blood arrives this weekend on August 8 in the US and August 9 in the UK.
The synopsis for the new historical romance series reads: 'This prequel to the Outlander series focuses on the lives and courtship of the parents of Jamie Fraser: Brian Fraser and Ellen Mackenzie as well as Claire Beauchamp's parents, Henry Beauchamp and Julia Moriston.'
The series will star Harriet Slater and Jamie Roy as Jamie's parents, while Hermione Corfield and Jeremy Irvine will play Claire's parents.
Meanwhile, Rory Alexander will play original show character Murtagh Fitzgibbons and Coronation Street's Sam Retford will play a younger version of Graham McTavish's character Dougal MacKenzie.
Outlander: Blood of My Blood will be available to stream on Saturday August 9 on MGM+ via Prime Video for UK fans.
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