First ‘Outlander’ Season 7 Part 2 Trailer Brings You Back to the Past This Fall

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  The second part of season 7 premieres on November 22, with new episodes weekly on the STARZ app.
• Three new characters are joining the Season 8 cast as the show gears up for its final season.
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  the universe expands with a series of prequels that explore the love stories of Jamie and Claire's parents.

As part of its celebration of “World Outsider Day,” STARZ has announced that the long-awaited second half of the outsider Season 7 will premiere on Friday, November 22. New episodes will be available weekly on Fridays at midnight ET on the STARZ app and other streaming platforms, with linear broadcasts at 8pm ET/PT on STARZ in the US and Canada.

In addition to the remaining eight episodes of Season 7, outsider is currently in production on an eighth and final season of 10 episodes. Alongside this announcement, STARZ introduced three new characters joining the Season 8 cast. Kieran Bew (House of the Dragon, warrior) will portray Captain Charles Cunningham, a retired British soldier; Frances Tomelty (Woman on the Wall, catastrophe) will play his mother, Elspeth Cunningham; i Carla Woodcock (Such brave girls, Killing Guide for Good Girls) will join as Amaranthus Grey, a new member of the Gray family.

After the first half of Season 7, viewers saw Claire (Caitríona Balfe), Jamie (Sam Heughan), and young Ian (John Bell) leaving the colonies and returning to Scotland. The Revolutionary War forces them to choose between standing by their loved ones and fighting for their new home. Meanwhile, Roger (Richard Rankin) and Brianna (Sophie Skelton) face new enemies through time, who threaten to tear their family apart. As loyalties shift and secrets emerge, Jamie and Claire's marriage is tested like never before.

What can we expect from the 'Outlander' prequel series?

The outsider the universe is expanding with a series of prequels, Outlander: Blood of My Blood, in production in Scotland. This new series will explore the lives and relationships of Jamie's parents, Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy) and Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater), as well as Claire's parents, Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine) and Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield). The series will focus on two parallel love stories set in different time periods, with Jamie's parents in the early 18th century Scottish Highlands and Claire's parents in World War I England.

Matthew B. Roberts, Ronald D. Moore, Maril Davis, Toni Graphia, Luke Schelhaas, Andy Harries, Jim KohlbergCaitríona Balfe and Sam Heughan are executive producers outsider, produced by Tall Ship Productions, Left Bank Pictures and Story Mining & Supply Company, in association with Sony Pictures Television. The series is inspired by Diana Gabaldon's best-selling books, which have sold approximately 50 million copies worldwide and have consistently appeared on the New York Times bestseller list.

Stay tuned to Collider for more outsider. Watch the Season 7 teaser above and catch up on past seasons on Starz in the US

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