The Final Droughtlander: When Will ‘Outlander’ Season 8 Be on Starz?

Outlander Season 7 finally came to an end today, over a year and a half after it first premiered on Starz back in Summer 2023. Over the course of the two-part, sixteen-episode-long season, we’ve followed Jamie (Sam Heughan) onto the front lines of the Revolutionary War, seen Claire (Caitriona Balfe) nearly be successfully tried for a murder she didn’t commit, and seen Brianna (Sophie Skelton) and Roger (Richard Rankin) return to the future before traveling back to the past. Outlander Season 7 even goes so far as to end on an incredibly dramatic, totally wild, and absolutely mind-blowing twist, throwing everything we’ve known about Jamie and Claire’s family tree into question.

Needless to say, the very first thing on your mind after you watch Outlander Season 7 Episode 16 “A Hundred Thousand Angels” will likely be how long until Outlander Season 8 comes on Starz?

How long will this latest Droughtlander last? Is Outlander Season 8 really, truly the end of Outlander? And how many episodes are left in Outlander‘s entire run?

Here’s everything you need to know to survive the final Droughtlander…

When Does Outlander Return to Starz? Outlander Season 8 Episode 1 Release Date:

We don’t know for sure exactly when Outlander will return to Starz, but we do know that Outlander Season 8 is definitely coming. Not only has Starz confirmed that filming wrapped on the eighth and final season of the hit last fall, but Decider visited the Scotland set of Outlander Season 8 last summer. It’s real. It’s happening. But when?

Sam Heughan vaguely told Today this week that Outlander would return, “sometime soon in the future.”

When Does Outlander Season 8 Premiere on Starz?

Again, we don’t know, but our best bet is some time in 2026. That’s partially because it takes a least a year of a season of Outlander to go through post-production and partially because we the Outlander prequel series, Outlander: Blood of My Blood, will debut first, this summer.

How Many Episodes are in Outlander Season 8?

Hoping for yet another sixteen-episode-long season of Outlander, split into two halves? Well, unfortunately, Outlander Season 8 is going to be shortest season since Outlander Season 6!

There will only be ten episodes in the eighth and final season of Outlander, Deadline reported back in 2023. That means there are only ten more installments of Jamie and Claire’s journey. Alas and alack…

Is This the Last Season of Outlander? Is Outlander Canceled? Will There Be an Outlander Season 9?

Outlander Season 8 will be the last season of Outlander. It will wrap up Claire and Jamie’s journey before author Diana Gabaldon gets there in her books, which is something that stuck in executive producer Maril Davis’s craw when we asked her about it in 2023:

“I mean, if it was just up to Maril Davis, I would love to see this through to the end of the book series,” she said during an interview in Summer 2023 for Outlander Season 7 Part 1. “[Waiting for Gabaldon] would entail us now going on pause, waiting for her to write that book. Is that three years? Is it four years? I don’t know. I think sometime it has to end. Is this a good time? I’m sure.”

Davis still teased that she “would have loved to have continued,” and the Outlander saga is far from over at Starz. Davis and her co-EP Matthew B. Roberts also created the aforementioned Outlander prequel series, Blood of My Blood, and she’s not opposed to returning to the main story in the future.

“I don’t know. Maybe we’ll do a different iteration in the future. You know, maybe we’ll come back and tell the end of the story,” she said. “I mean, we’ll have to end it in some way. But you know, story will obviously still continue in the books.”

That said, don’t bet on Outlander Season 9. The show will end on Starz with Outlander Season 8.