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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Jun 13, 2017 11:38:42 GMT
Channel 4 have secured the rights to Starz’s time-travel drama for their digital channel, More4.
Outlander spans the genres of romance, science fiction, history, and adventure in one grandiose tale.
It follows the story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened.
When she is forced to marry Jamie Fraser, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire’s heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Stars:
Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Tobias Menzes, Graham McTavish, Gary Lewis, Duncan Lacroix, Annette Badland, Lotte Verbeek and Stephen Walters.
The first season will launch on More4 later this month.
FYI, it has just finished filming its third season, so may be worth investing in, if it is your kinda thing.
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Post by profbooboo on Jun 13, 2017 11:55:19 GMT
Dame Bouncy Castle, I have one thing to say. Arrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! 😆
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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Jun 13, 2017 11:59:04 GMT
Is that a good Arrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! or a bad Arrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! ?
I am afraid I am not fluent in Arrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!.
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Post by profbooboo on Jun 13, 2017 12:08:21 GMT
Is that a good Arrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! or a bad Arrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! ? I am afraid I am not fluent in Arrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!. Hopefully this will answer that question.  Most definitely a good Arrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Also if anyone wants to know what happened to Aunt Babe, watch This! 😉😆 |
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Post by Miranda on Jun 13, 2017 12:09:25 GMT
I was really interested when I read 'time-travel drama'. But hmmm..... it sounds proper soppy. I'll give the first one a go and see what I think
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Post by profbooboo on Jun 13, 2017 12:40:44 GMT
'Soppy' is one word for it, but it's a bit more extreme than that, proper naughty!...I went all Danny Dyer then
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Post by Miranda on Jun 13, 2017 12:51:32 GMT
Are there loads of sex scenes? I just get a bit bored when there's too much sex.
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Post by marion on Jun 13, 2017 13:09:22 GMT
He doesn't look very rugged for a Highland warrior, does he? Still I shall give it a go. Perhaps if it is raunchy it can replace the about to end Versailles in my viewing schedule!!!!!!!!!
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Post by profbooboo on Jun 13, 2017 15:43:46 GMT
Are there loads of sex scenes? I just get a bit bored when there's too much sex. Prepare to be bored silly! No, there is storyline aswell and lots of recognisable British actors including Tobias Menzies, Gary Lewis and Clive Russell. |
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Post by geometryman on Jun 13, 2017 17:36:38 GMT
This is a terrific series - don't miss it!
The first two seasons have been on Amazon Prime and for me they were among the highlights of their respective viewing years. The third season will be on Amazon Prime this autumn.
It is absolutely not soppy, that would be the last word I'd use to describe it. There is some fairly raunchy sex, and violence, but by no means in every episode and only when the plot requires it. It's lavishly filmed, mostly on location in Scotland in the case of the first season, and should have you completely immersed - even the opening title theme (a version of the Skye Boat Song) is enough to give me goosebumps!
The ladies will probably watch for Sam Heughan (whose fans, I understand, are known as Heughligans) but my favourite is Caitriona Balfe as Claire Randall - initially a hard woman having a job sticking up for herself in 1740s Scotland, but increasingly drawn in to the situation in the run up to the Jacobite rebellion. Tobias Menzies plays two parts - Claire's twentieth century husband, and an ancestor of his with a very different personality. Gary Lewis is a Laird.
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Post by profbooboo on Jun 13, 2017 19:51:47 GMT
Oh The Skye Boat Song is beautiful. I like this video with an introduction by Heughan.
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Post by diziet sma on Jun 13, 2017 21:04:40 GMT
A cracking series, as Geometryman says, I disagree with him a little cos I think there's a lot more sex scens than the plot demands. I have no objection to this.
Mills and Boon meets Game of Thrones IMHO.
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Post by geometryman on Jun 14, 2017 7:10:20 GMT
There has been much comparison of Outlander with Game of Thrones, but I don't really buy it. GoT is more magical fantasy, Outlander's setting is a period of actual history, carefully reconstructed in the series. Leaving aside the time travel aspect, it's easy to believe the characters and events in it are real.
One thing GoT and Outlander have in common is that both are based on a series of "big" books which are still being written - Outlander series 3 is based on the third of eight current novels, with a ninth in progress. It could run for some time yet - a fourth series has already been commissioned.
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Post by gowergirl on Jun 14, 2017 9:24:28 GMT
I shall watch this,as I have read all the books & they are brilliant.Friends who have read the books too & watched the series have been impressed .
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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Jun 14, 2017 17:39:10 GMT
Thursday June 29th at 9pm.
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Anymore to come?
