Season 2 of “Outlander: Blood of My Blood” has just two episodes left, and fans are rightly clamouring for news of a third season.
The Starz series, which streams on Stan in Australia, has not yet been renewed, but its stars are hopeful an answer is close.
“I think we’re gonna know in the next two months,” Hermione Corfield, who plays Claire’s mother Julia, told Variety Australia during the cast’s Australian promo trip in September.
Harriet Slater, who plays Jamie Fraser’s mother Ellen MacKenzie, agreed “Maybe two and a half months. I’m hoping it’s going to be an early Christmas present for us.”
“If we find out then, that means that the general public won’t find out until a little bit later,” she said. “It’s normally when we start filming season three that it gets announced. So we’ll have to keep our lips tightly shut.”
Keeping secrets is nothing new for the cast. Season 2 was greenlit in February 2025, and filming began that June, months ahead of Season 1’s August premiere. Jeremy Irvine, who plays Claire’s father Henry Beauchamp, said that head start helped.
“In terms of taking risks and stuff, you’ve got a bit more of a basis to be able to do that,” he said.
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Corfield added: “The challenge is making sure you’re showing up to set every single day and bringing fresh ideas. You never want to get complacent. So I think that [was] the challenge for Season 2 — how do we make this different? How has this character changed?”
There’s still plenty of story to tell if the series continues. Fans know how Brian and Ellen’s story ends, but for Jamie Roy, who plays Brian Fraser, the fun is in what happens in between.
“We know what kids get born and in what order. We know that they have Lallybroch at some point. We know that Ellen dies, we know Brian dies, but it’s filling in the gaps,” he said.
“Nobody knows what happens with the war that Brian goes to. We don’t know if Brian makes it back from the war. There’s just so many missing parts that people don’t know… So even though you might think you know what happens, you’re probably wrong.”
Roy said there are questions about Brian he’s still working through himself. “I’d be curious to actually spend some time and sit with, like, what is it that Brian’s perhaps missing in his life that he sees [in Ellen]?”
“Outlander: Blood of My Blood” Season 2 is streaming on Stan, with episode nine arriving Saturday, November 21st, and the finale on November 28th.