Feb. 26 (UPI) —<\/span> Starz and Sony Pictures Television are working on a prequel series to its beloved time-travel drama, Outlander<\/i>.<\/p>\n Deadline, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter reported the news Friday.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Outlander <\/i>showrunner Matthew B. Roberts is writing and will executive produce the as-of-yet-unnamed project.<\/p>\n The original series’ executive producers, Ronald D. Moore and Maril Davis, are also involved in the new show.<\/p>\n No plot details or casting have been disclosed.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, Diana Gabaldon — the author upon whose novels the franchise is based — teased in a Facebook post that she might be working up an origins story for some of her most famous characters.<\/p>\n She wrote: “And it _is_ only a line — but I think it’s possibly the first line of the book: ‘Ellen MacKenzie, eldest of the children of Jacob Ruadh MacKenzie, chief of Clan MacKenzie — well, the late chief, if only by moments, but she’d think about that later-grabbed Ailidh Watt from behind and dragged her out of sight, clapping a hand over her slobbering mouth to stifle her cries.’ [Copyright 2022 Diana Gabaldon] (Yes, there’s more written than that, but I’m not posting much of this book for some time; I’ve barely begun working on it.)”\n<\/p>\n Starring Catrionia Balfe and Sam Heaughan, Season 6 of Outlander <\/i>is set to premiere on the cable network March 6.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1\/5 Caitriona Balfe (L) and Sam Heughan’s “Outlander” series is getting a prequel at Starz. File Photo by Jim Ruymen\/UPI | License Photo Feb. 26 (UPI) — Starz and Sony Pictures Television are working on a prequel series to its beloved time-travel drama, Outlander. Deadline, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter reported the news Friday. Outlander […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1004953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Caitriona Balfe (L) and Sam Heughan’s “Outlander” series is getting a prequel at Starz. File Photo by Jim Ruymen\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n\n