Starz Gives Prequel Series OUTLANDER: BLOOD OF MY BLOOD a Season 2 Renewal Ahead of Its Season 1 Debut — GeekTyrant
Starz has announced that the Outlander Universe expansion prequel, Blood of My Blood , has been given an early Season 2 renewal. The prequel series will premiere on Friday, August 8th, with new episodes available to stream weekly on Fridays via the Starz app, and all Starz streaming and on-demand platforms.
Production kicked off on Season 2 in Scotland this week, on the same stages where the mothership series Outlander filmed over the last decade.
'The passion and talent our cast and crew have poured into Outlander: Blood of my Blood has been extraordinary and we're thrilled to continue these epic love stories in Season Two,' shared Matthew B. Roberts, showrunner and executive producer of the new series, 'Just as audiences fell in love with Jamie and Claire, we hope viewers will be enamored by these new couples when they meet them this summer.'
The prequel follows the romance between Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) and Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy), parents of Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) and Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield), and Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine), parents of Jamie's soulmate across time, Claire Fraser (Caitríona Balfe).
From the battlefields of World War I to the rugged Highlands of 18th-century Scotland, two fated couples must defy the forces that seek to tear them apart, intersecting in surprising and unforeseen ways. As a stand-alone series, viewers don't need to have watched Outlander to follow the storyline. However, for fans of the original series, there will be origin stories for many fan-favorite characters.
Outlander: Blood of My Blood also stars Tony Curran (Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat), Rory Alexander (Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser), Séamus McLean Ross (Colum MacKenzie), Sam Retford (Dougal MacKenzie) and Conor MacNeill (Ned Gowan).
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