Finally, We Have a Premiere Date for 'Outlander' Season 3
Get the inside info about the new episodes. Plus, an exclusive video of a very anguished Jamie and Claire.
Finally, the Outlander news you've been waiting for: We're thrilled to announce that Season 3 of the STARZ time-travel romance will return Sunday, September 10. Yes, that's right—you can now mark the end of Droughtlander in your calendar.
Thirteen new episodes devoted to Claire and Jamie will air this fall, and they'll be based on Voyager, the third of Diana Gabaldon's eight Outlander books.
Here's the official season three poster, showing Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) on opposite sides of the standing stone—and in totally different centuries. Claire's in the 1960s, having returned to her original life and husband Frank (Tobias Menzies), while Jamie's in the 1700s. No, you're crying.
And here's an exclusive live-action version of the poster, featuring a very anguished Claire and Jamie:
"You can come back to your life," Claire muses in voiceover, "but it's never the same. Maybe it's enough to have gone once. How many people can say they had that?"
As for what we can expect, the new season will pick up right after Claire returns to her old life, pregnant with Jamie's child. As for Jamie, we'll see him at the historic battle of Culloden, fighting not only Black Jack Randall but his grief at losing Claire. The battle itself will be epic, showrunner Ronald D. Moore said: "I'm very excited about finally delivering Culloden to the audience after having talked about this pivotal event for so long."
Moore also says the two are building their lives again independently: "We're going to reset the story and the characters at the start of the season, giving the audience a window into what happened to Jamie at the battle of Culloden, as well as what happened to Claire in the twentieth century."
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What should fans be most excited about, according to Moore? "Getting to see the ways in which Jamie and Claire grew and changed over the course of their 20-year separation is a very exciting prospect." And with Scotland, Cape Town, and even an ocean voyage to the New World (which Moore calls "a big turning point in the saga") on the horizon, the very setting of this epic romance will change.
Of course, a reunion is definitely on the cards for our favorite time-defying lovers, though it might take a while. The only question is whether they'll still feel the same way after so long apart. But true love never dies, right?
Rewatch the teaser (you know you want to) below:
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Estelle Tang is the former senior editor of ELLE.com.
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