Outlander season 7 part 2 release date confirmed for November
Outlander season 7 part 2 has finally been given a release date.
The first of the new episodes will launch on Friday, November 22 on STARZ in the US, just over 15 months after the season 7 part 1 finale.
Season 7 part 2's first episode will premiere at midnight on the STARZ streaming service, app and on demand, while it will get its first primetime airing at 8pm ET/PT that night in the US. International release details will follow.
The news was announced to mark World Outlander Day (June 1, the date the first of Diana Gabaldon's books was published), and STARZ has also released a first-look teaser trailer for the new series and an accompanying synopsis.
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The official synopsis for Outlander season 7 part 2 explains that "viewers find Claire (Caitríona Balfe), Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Young Ian (John Bell) leaving the colonies and arriving in their beloved homeland: Scotland.
"The perils of the Revolutionary War force them to choose between standing by those they love and fighting for the land they have made their new home."
The synopsis adds that Jamie and Claire's marriage will be tested "like never before" – while there are challenges for Roger and Brianna (Richard Rankin and Sophie Skelton) too, who will "face new enemies across time and must battle the forces that threaten to pull their family apart".
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Outlander will conclude with an eighth season, which is currently filming. Caitríona Balfe, who plays Claire, told Digital Spy that being able to wrap up the story properly was important to her and co-star Sam Heughan.
She explained to us that while filming was underway on season seven, "there were a lot of conversations going on, whether we would have finished it in two episodes, at the end of that season, or whether we would do another one".
Balfe said that she wanted to "honour the show and honour the fanbase" with the eighth and final season of Outlander, adding: "I think it is really important that we give it a proper send-off."
The Outlander universe will expand from the main show with a prequel series, Blood of My Blood, telling the story of both Jamie and Claire's parents across two timelines in the early 18th-century Scottish Highlands and England during World War I.
The ten-episode series will star Pennyworth's Harriet Slater as Jamie's mother Ellen MacKenzie, Jamie Roy as Jamie's father Bryan Fraser, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again's Jeremy Irvine as Henry Beauchamp, Claire's father, and Hermione Corfield as Claire's mother Julia Moriston.
Outlander season 7 part 2 premieres on Friday, November 22, with new episodes following weekly. The show airs on STARZ in the US and MGM+ on Prime Video in the UK.
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