Outlander season 8: key information
– Renewed in January 2023
– Premiere on 6 March 2026
– Officially the last season of the program
– Main cast set to return
– Three new characters confirmed
– The plot will continue to be based on Diana Gabaldon’s famous books
– Prequel series, Outlander: Blood of My Bloodin production for season 2
Outlander season 8 arrives on March 6, 2026 and marks the final season of the time-traveling fantasy drama on Starz.
There is much more to talk about when it comes to Outlander season 8 though, so here’s everything we know so far about the hit drama’s return from its release date, confirmed cast, plot rumors and more.
Full spoilers follow Outlander season 1-7. Potential spoilers are also discussed for Season 8.
Outlander Season 8: Is There a Release Date?
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Yes, we have one Outlander season 8 release date and it has been officially revealed to premiere on March 6, 2026.
The last season got its renewal status way back in January 2023, but since then the extended Season 7 has been released in two parts, concluding in January 2025.
And in a statement to Forbes, Kathryn Busby, president of original programming for Starz, said: “For nearly a decade Outlander has won the hearts of audiences around the world, and we’re delighted to bring Claire and Jamie’s epic love story to a proper conclusion.”
We also know that the cast and crew officially wrapped filming back in September 2024, which was revealed alongside a series of photos of the cast posing on set with the final folding table.
The Instagram post says: “Outlander is truly more than just a show, it’s a family, and while filming may be wrapping up, there’s so much more to this journey that’s just begun.”
Season 8 will also reportedly consist of 10 episodes, as opposed to Season 7’s extended 16 episodes. And we’ll get back to you as soon as we hear about an exact release date.
Outlander season 8: has a trailer been released?
Yes, one Outlander The Season 8 teaser trailer came out in September and gives us a sneak peek at what’s to come. It’s not quite a full trailer, which will undoubtedly follow in early 2026, but it’s enough to keep us going for now.
In the teaser, Claire and Jamie reminisce about their life together and what lies ahead. As Claire says, “With everything that’s coming, I’m so afraid of losing everything.” Interspersed with flashbacks is a look at their Fraser’s Ridge home under threat from intruders.
For Season 7, the official trailer dropped a month before the first episode, so we could imagine much of the same for Season 8. We’ll be sure to update you here as soon as it arrives.
Outlander Season 8: Cast Confirmed
Spoilers follow Outlander season 1-7.
According to the show’s official Instagram post confirming filming had wrapped and the teaser trailer (both shown above), we know the following cast will be returning for Outlander season 8:
- Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser
- Caitriona Balfe as Claire Fraser
- Sophie Skelton as Brianna Randall Fraser / MacKenzie
- Richard Rankin as Roger MacKenzie
- David Berry as Lord John Grey
- John Bell as young Ian Murray
- Charles Vandervaart as William Ransom
- Izzy Meikle-Small as Rachel Hunter
- César Domboy as Fergus
- Lauren Lyle as Marsali
- Diarmaid Murtagh as William ‘Buck’ MacKenzie
- Joey Phillips as Dr. Denzel Hunter
As part of the world Outlander Today in June 2024, we also know of three new characters who have been confirmed to join Season 8. These are Kieran Brew as Captain Charles Cunningham, a retired British soldier, Frances Tomelty as his mother, Elspeth Cunningham and Carla Woodcock as Amaranthus Grey, a new member of the Gray family.
Outlander season 8: story synopsis and rumors
Full spoilers follow Outlander season 1-7. Potential spoilers for Outlander season 8.
There is an official synopsis for Outlander season 8, which reads, “Jamie and Claire find that the Revolutionary War has followed them home to Fraser’s Ridge, now a thriving settlement that has grown and flourished in their absence.
“With new arrivals and changes made during their years away, the Frasers are confronted with the question of what they are willing to sacrifice for the place they call home, and more importantly, what they would sacrifice to stay together.
“As the Frasers maintain a united front against outside intruders, family secrets finally coming to light threaten to tear them apart from within. Although they have left the war for America’s freedom behind them, their fight for Fraser’s Ridge has only just begun.”
And this synopsis is in line with the rest of the series, with each season of Outlander based on Diana Gabaldon’s book series, while the romantic time travel story unfolds between Claire, an army nurse, and Jamie, a Highland warrior.
For Season 7, both the sixth and seventh books in Gabaldon’s series were unraveled, titled A breath of snow and ash and An echo in my bones.
It seems incredibly likely then that the basis for Season 8 will be Gabaldon’s eighth and ninth books, Written in my own heart’s blood and Tell the bees I’m gone.
But Gabaldon has also worked on the tenth Outlander book that she advertised on her website in May 2025, will be the final novel in the main series with the title A blessing for a warrior going out.
Whether or not this tenth book will have fed into Season 8 is unclear, but as the conclusion of Jamie and Claire’s love story, it seems likely that at least the recent books would play a role in Season 8’s narrative, although nothing has been officially confirmed.
If they were to follow the next books, then it’s worth taking a look at the official synopsis for each one to get an idea of what might happen in the show. For Book Eight: “It’s June 1778 and the world seems to be turning upside down. The British army is retreating from Philadelphia, with George Washington in hot pursuit, and for the first time it looks like the rebels might actually win. But for Claire Fraser and her family, there are even more tumultuous revolutions to meet.
“Her former husband, Jamie, has returned from the dead and demanded to know why, in his absence, she married his best friend, Lord John Grey. Lord John’s son, the ninth Earl of Ellesmere, is no less shocked to discover that his real father is actually the resurrected Jamie Fraser, and Jamie’s nephew has agreed that his new woman, Ian Murray, has agreed to marry him.
“And while Claire fears that one of her husbands may be murdering the other, her descendants in the 20th century face even more desperate twists. Her daughter Brianna tries to protect her son from a vicious criminal bent on murder, while her husband Roger has disappeared into the past…”
And book nine follows Jamie and Claire in 1779, involved in the American Revolution and reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge.
Both of these books resonate with what we’ve seen so far in the short teaser trailer, with the threat of war knocking on the door of the place they’ve finally called home.
Plus, there is to cliffhanger of the season 7 part 2 finale that we definitely want answers to. As a young girl, Fanny is overheard by Claire singing ‘I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside’, a song she sang to her stillborn daughter Faith from Season 2, leading her to believe that Faith might not have died after all.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Balfe said, “It’s such an interesting cliffhanger because it just opens up this whole other world of questions that lead us so brilliantly into next season. I think for Claire, it’s like her heart stops, her heart breaks, and her heart sings — all at the same time.”
Fortunately, it looks like we’ll get all the answers we need in Season 8, as co-showrunner Matthew B Roberts told TVLine, “Obviously it’s a cliffhanger, but hopefully we tie it up in a bow with the answers and the explanations and what happens and the ramifications of all that on Jamie and Claire.”
Will there be more seasons of Outlander?
Not quite. While Outlander will officially end with season 8, the prequel series Outlander: Blood of My Bloodrevealed alongside Season 8’s renewal, will continue the show’s story down an entirely new path.
The prequel follows the lives of Jamie and Claire’s parents. Jamie’s parents, Ellen MacKenzie and Brian Fraser are in 18th century Scotland, while in WW1 Britain, the lives of Julia Moriston and Henry Beauchamp exist in a time before Claire arrived.
And you’ll be happy to know that there’s already an entire Season 1 to watch, which ended in October 2025, and Season 2 is reportedly already in production with the cast: ‘It’s wildly not what you’d expect’.
Of course it isn’t quite Jamie and Claire, but that’s the closest we get to them after-Outlander season 8 and we’re really not mad about it.
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