Starz released a 2-minute sneak peek of Outlander Season 2, set to return in April, and it’s a very different setting than what we are used to. Claire and Jaime Fraser (Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan) had set sail from Scotland, having escaped (with mental and physical scars), the horrors or prison and Black Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies). The Frasers are expecting a “bonny wee one” and things are looking up.

Check out the video below (and the teaser released in December).

A first look teaser trailer for Outlander, the new series from Battlestar Galactica reboot developer and executive producer Ronald D. Moore that’s based on author Diana Gabaldon‘s book series, was released recently.

The teaser is less than a minute long, but should sufficiently give passionate fans of the books an idea of what the show will look like. Some of the main cast includes Caitriona Balfe as Claire Randall, Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser, Tobias Menzies as Frank/Jonathan Randall, and Graham McTavish as Dougal MacKenzie.

You can watch the first teaser trailer for Outlander below.

We first found out that a new TV series was being developed based on the bestselling Outlander book series by author Diana Gabaldon last July, and that it was being developed by by the Battlestar Galactica re-imagining developer Ronald D. Moore. A few months later it was revealed that the series was being set up at Starz, one of the networks that fans of the books seemed to most want to see it land on.

Those same fans will be elated to find out that now the series isn’t just being developed with Starz, but that the company has officially ordered an entire 16-episode first season of Outlander. That’s six more episodes than us Game of Thrones fanatics get every nine months. Either that or they’re planning to film two eight-episode seasons back-to-back.

Back in July we found out that Ronald D. Moore was developing a TV adaptation of the popular Diana Gabaldon multi-genre book series, Outlander.

Judging by some of you fans of the books’ comments on our previous post, you very much wanted to see the TV series head to HBO or Starz. As it turns out, it’s now been announced that Starz has in fact reached a deal to develop the series, with Moore continuing to develop it and also acting as a writer and executive producer.

A bit of old news on this slow Sunday, but our old friend Ronald D. Moore is back for a visit.

It was reported a few days ago that the Battlestar Galactica reboot developer/writer/executive producer and Caprica creator/writer/executive producer will work on writing an adaptation of author Diana Gabaldon‘s popular Outlander book series for Sony Pictures TV, with plans of turning it into a new series.