{"id":394746,"date":"2026-03-20T09:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/394746\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:38:18","slug":"outlander-scores-four-year-ratings-high-with-season-8-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/394746\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Outlander&#8217; Scores Four-Year Ratings High With Season 8 Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Season 8 premiere of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/outlander\/\" id=\"auto-tag_outlander\" data-tag=\"outlander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Outlander<\/a>\u201d drove nearly 3 million multiplatform viewers to the series, marking a four-year ratings high for Starz\u2019s time-traveling drama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe episode, titled \u201cSoul of a Rebel,\u201d scored the top spot for the week among scripted cable programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe eighth and final season of the historical fantasy show airs its third episode on Friday, March 20, with new episodes streaming weekly on Starz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn the final installment, \u201cJamie and Claire soon find the war has followed them home to Fraser\u2019s Ridge, now a thriving settlement that has grown and flourished in their absence,\u201d per the description. \u201cWith new arrivals and changes made during their years away, the Frasers are confronted with the question of what they are willing to sacrifice for the place they call home and, more importantly, what they would sacrifice to stay together. While the Frasers keep a united front against outside intruders, family secrets finally coming to light threaten to tear them apart from the inside. Although they\u2019ve left the war for America\u2019s freedom behind, their fight for Fraser\u2019s Ridge has only just begun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cOutlander\u201d stars Caitr\u00edona Balfe as Claire Fraser, Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser, Sophie Skelton as Brianna MacKenzie, Richard Rankin as Roger MacKenzie, John Bell as Young Ian Murray, David Berry as Lord John Grey, Charles Vandervaart as William Ransom and Izzy Meikle-Small as Rachel Murray.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe show debuted in 2014 and is based on the fantasy books by Diana Gabaldon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMatthew B. Roberts, Ronald D. Moore, Maril Davis, Toni Graphia, Luke Schelhaas, Andy Harries, Jim Kohlberg, Balfe and Heughan serve as executive producers on \u201cOutlander,\u201d which is produced by Sony Pictures Television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Season 8 premiere of \u201cOutlander\u201d drove nearly 3 million multiplatform viewers to the series, marking a four-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,19,17,20448,128],"class_list":["post-394746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-outlander","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116260837990156204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}