When Does Outlander Starts Up Again

Unfortunately for Outlander fans, "droughtlander" the clever championship for the flow betwixt seasons, is hither once again, and it'due south prolonged this time because of the ongoing COVID-xix pandemic. Simply the show is coming back for another affiliate, and the first full trailer just dropped, which is equally equally haunting and epic equally fans could have hoped:

The trailer shows Jamie and Claire'southward peaceful life at Fraser'south Ridge being threatened by the looming Revolutionary State of war, alongside some ominous captions and dialogue that suggest it's going to be a very rough flavour for our favorites.

"Change takes courage. Freedom takes cede. Love takes everything," reads the especially worrying tagline. Elsewhere, Claire warns Jamie that "the tide has turned," before a glimpse of the arrival of the Christie family.

Here's what else we know so far about season six:

Outlander flavour 6 will air in March 2022.

On Nov 22, 2021, at the launch event for Diana Gabaldon'south ninth Outlander book Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone, Starz announced that season half-dozen of Outlander volition premiere on March vi, 2022 at 9 p.g. ET/PT.

On May nine, 2018, Starz appear that the series would be renewed for two more seasons (season 5 and season 6).

"Fans can rest assured their love Claire and Jamie will be dorsum facing new challenges, adversaries and adventures in seasons 5 and six as we delve into American history and continue the story of the Frasers as they settle in the New Globe," Starz president and CEO Chris Albrecht said in a statement.

Flavour 6 volition exist eight episodes, including a 90-infinitesimal premiere episode. Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Sophie Skelton, Richard Rankin, and John Bell will all reprise their starring roles, while new cast members will include Mark Lewis-Jones as Tom, Alexander Vlahos as Allan, and Jessica Reynolds equally Malva Christie.

"We are excited to become into the editing room to piece of work on bringing the fans i step closer to reuniting with the family back on Fraser's Ridge," Matthew B. Roberts, Outlander showrunner said in a statement. "Filming in 2021 has presented an unprecedented set of challenges which led united states to the conclusion to truncate the season in order to bring the fans the most vibrant and dynamic flavor as soon equally possible. Dinna fash, we will then film an extended season vii with xvi episodes next year as life returns to normalcy."

The episode titles have been revealed.

They range from the season premiere "Echoes" to the finale "I am not Alone." See them all on Twitter here.

Jamie and Claire will confront "heartbreaking" new challenges.

Because it simply wouldn't exist a new season of Outlander unless it put our dearest heroes through the emotional wringer! Executive producer Maril Davis just shared this ominous tidbit with Entertainment Weekly: "Jamie and Claire keep thinking they're safety at Fraser's Ridge, but in season 6 we're asking, 'What practice you do when your abode turns against you lot?' We'll run across how that happens in their own lawn."

That new threat comes with the inflow of the Christie family—Jamie'due south old nemesis, Tom Christie (Mark Lewis Jones), and his two children, Allan (Alexander Vlahos) and Malva (Jessica Reynolds). The arrival of the family will be "very destabilizing for Claire," Balfe says, adding that the Frasers' interaction with the Christies is "a really heartbreaking, but a really twisted narrative that they all get embroiled in."

Sam Heughan recently added fuel to that worrying fire during his appearance at New York Comic Con. Afterwards Jamie and Claire have spent so much fourth dimension and energy making a home for themselves at Fraser's Ridge, he says, season half-dozen will "really run into that disintegrate... I think these cracks are really starting to show — not just for Jamie and Claire but for the rest of the inhabitants of Fraser's Ridge. The war is coming," he said, per Us Weekly.

Some scenes from season six had to be re-shot.

Also at New York Comic Con, Heughan revealed that some of the 6th season had to exist re-shot to accommodate Caitriona Balfe'south pregnancy. "You all know my co-star was pregnant. Congratulations to Caitriona," he said. "When they knew, they had to really move everything effectually then we could shoot her out before she got too large… and she got large." Later in the console, Balfe shared that these scenes had been shot from strategic angles to hibernate her baby crash-land. She welcomed her offset kid with husband Anthony "Tony" McGill dorsum in August.

Starz just released new images of the upcoming season.

Encounter an inside look at season half dozen below:

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They also shared this await at Roger and Brianna, with a funny caption:

Production on flavor six has wrapped.

In the June 2021 statement, Starz noted that filming on season six is wrapping upwardly. Back in March 2020, actor Sam Heughan confirmed in a Twitter Q&A that they had started working on future episodes before the finale of season five even aired.

When one fan asked, "have you read S6 scripts however?" he responded, "We accept started... Ep i!!! So excited. But you're going to dear the rest of this flavour."

Unfortunately, the ongoing coronavirus crisis has impacted product, merely in early February, Heughan shared a photo from set. "We're Back!!" he wrote on Twitter. "Feel very fortunate to be working right now, product are ensuring anybody is safety and protected. Now just need to deal with the snow...."

And in March 2021, the show released a new backside the scenes look at product. Check it out here:

Malva Christie will exist introduced in flavor six.

Meet the actress playing the character here:

In fact, the whole Christie family will appear in the upcoming season. Hither's an introduction to Mark Lewis Jones as Malva's male parent, Tom Christie:

And here'southward Alexander Vlahos who will portray Allan Christie:

Costumer Trisha Biggar has been prepping for months, fifty-fifty while social distancing.

"We had started prep, and nosotros're merely moving slowly with that at the minute. Sorting some fabrics, and looking at shapes, but nothing very definite yet. We don't have a lot of data about what's happening when, or to who," she told T&C.

"Then we just started moving forward with it. It'due south quite nice in a way. We accept time to chat and think about it. You lot know, we could remember of this, think of that in one case you take more than ideas when we start dorsum. Nosotros hopefully get going quite apace, because I accept bought lots of fabric and so nosotros have got lots of things ready to get going on when we are allowed to outset dorsum at work. "

In December of 2020, Heughan shared a video from the costume department.

"Gauge where I am, it is, indeed, the costume department of Outlander. Amongst hundreds and thousands of costumes we take to apparel so many people, so excited to be back," he said. "We're prepping, we're dressing people, nosotros're learning to deal with all the guidelines simply nosotros can't look to show yous what we accept got in store for season six. I might even take a new hat, we'll see."

In a separate clip, he was joined by some of his castmates:

The renewal came as something of a surprise to star Caitriona Balfe.

"We kind of hoped that nosotros would go a season 5," she said, according to Digital Spy. "We weren't really expecting them to pick upwardly both together, so that's really exciting."

Season 6 volition be, at to the lowest degree loosely, based on Diana Gabaldon's 6th volume in the Outlander series: A Breath of Snowfall and Ashes.

Prior to flavour five, each season of Outlander has been loosely based on i book. Merely season five has covered storylines from both The Fiery Cross and A Breath of Snow and Ashes.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes

"Every year nosotros approach it fresh," Moore told EW in March of terminal yr. "Should we continue information technology a book a flavor? We've done that up until at present. But nosotros've talked nearly splitting books, and we've talked about combining them. We desire to be costless in the writers' room to selection and choose and exercise what feels most comfortable that year."

It's possible that season half-dozen will cover the rest of A Breath of Snow and Ashes, but too some of Gabaldon'due south seventh book, " An Echo in the Os.

Claire'south healing journey will play a key role in the season.

"Claire has notwithstanding some healing to practise," Heughan said in a recent interview, hinting at what's to come up for the prove. In fact, ane of the things Balfe is "looking forward to" in season six is seeing "how the family every bit a whole unit heal together" following her character's abduction.

Watch their full conversation beneath:

Outlander was also renewed for a 7th flavor.

Get all the details right hither. Gabaldon is besides currently working on her 9th novel about Claire and Jamie, Become Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, which she says will exist finished later this year. In June 2021, Starz announced that flavour seven would consist of sixteen episodes, due to the shortened 6th season.

"Six seasons is an incredible run as it is, but I call up Diana has a few more than books [planned] so nosotros'll encounter," Balfe previously said.

And it sounds like there could be fifty-fifty more shows gear up in the Outlander universe. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter about his new bargain with Disney in early on, Outlander creator Moore, who continues to exist involved in the product of the testify, shared that "conversations are underway on both season 7 and on a spinoff."

"I think we're going to have good news on both those fronts earlier too long and so I experience very optimistic well-nigh it. I agree that I would've been happy to meet it happen sooner than this but everything happens in its time. I think both those things are probably going to happen and hopefully we'll be able to say something well-nigh it before too long."