{"id":394818,"date":"2022-01-15T19:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-the-starz-series-became-a-tv-smash-hit\/"},"modified":"2022-01-15T19:00:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T16:00:36","slug":"how-the-starz-series-became-a-tv-smash-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-the-starz-series-became-a-tv-smash-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"#How the Starz Series Became a TV Smash Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How the Starz Series<\/a> Became a TV Smash Hit<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

This is an excerpt from TV Guide Magazine\u2019s<\/b> Outlander Forever Special Collector\u2019s Issue<\/em>, which is available for international pre-order online at OutlanderForever.com<\/a> and available nationwide on news<\/a>stands now.<\/b><\/p>\n

Before Outlander<\/em> even started steaming up our TV screens on August 9, 2014, the sexy saga had superfans. They were the deeply devoted readers of author Diana Gabaldon\u2019s bestselling time-travel<\/a> romance series. The frisky franchise already numbered seven volumes when Starz announced in June 2013 that its fiery couple, Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser, were coming to television. Early buzz was deafening \u2014 and it has never let up. Call it the ecstatic moan heard round the world.<\/p>\n

But that initial fervor was no guarantee the epic drama would turn out to be the cultural phenom it is. After all, TV had never seen this kind of genre mashup: a love story with a sci-fi twist, plus some historical fiction thrown in. How would that fare in a lineup of procedurals, medical shows, and family dramas? Adding to that, the first book alone had 600-plus pages, rich with descript<\/a>ive passages, action, quirky characters, multiple time periods. Taking it successfully from page to screen was going to be no small feat.<\/p>\n

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Swipe right to executive producer Ronald D. Moore, then most famous as the showrunner of reimagined sci-fi favorite Battlestar Galactica<\/em>. He\u2019d also worked on multiple iterations of TV\u2019s Star Trek<\/em> franchise. Not only could he build fantasy worlds, but he could merge them with grounded, real human stories. That combo has been the kilt pin to Outlander<\/em> success season after season.<\/p>\n

When the show debuted, critics raved and viewers swooned. Shot on location in Scotland (historic castles! snowy mountains!), it boasted meticulously researched period costumes by Terry Dresbach (Moore\u2019s wife, who\u2019d introduced him to the books) and no-expense-spared sets by production designer Jon Gary Steele. Sealing the deal: the chemistry between leads Caitriona Balfe and Scot Sam Heughan. Book fans suddenly had a lot of company.<\/p>\n

Female viewers saw themselves in Balfe\u2019s smart, sensual Claire. Yes, she was a woman in jeopardy thrown into a strange world with narrowly prescribed feminine roles, but that didn\u2019t crush her outspoken nature. In the gripping action scenes, she saved Jamie as much as he saved her. Jamie was a new kind of romantic hero: a warrior living by an ancient honor code yet willing to learn and let his mind be changed by a modern, older woman. (He could teach a 21st-century man a thing or two!)<\/p>\n

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The sex scenes were like nothing anyone had ever seen on TV \u2014 or anywhere. They weren\u2019t shot to appeal to the male gaze. There were no unrealistic gymnastics undertaken just to show off the naked female form. Claire\u2019s pleasure was as important as Jamie\u2019s, and she wasn\u2019t shy about asking for what she wanted \u2014 and giving directions. The first time the couple slept together, Moore insisted that the scene be written and directed by women.<\/p>\n

Texts flew: You have to watch this show. Starz subscriptions rose, Gabaldon\u2019s book sales bumped up, and vacations to filming locations became so popular that Scotland\u2019s tourist board dubbed it \u201cThe Outlander<\/em> Effect.\u201d Fans gathered en masse at Comic-Con panels and conventions. (Men showed up in kilts!) Devotees adopted proud nicknames: \u201cHeughligans\u201d and \u201cCaitriots.\u201d Multiple award nominations and wins followed.<\/p>\n

Long stretches between seasons were nicknamed the \u201cDroughtlander.\u201d This year\u2019s was blessedly broken up by Starz\u2019s delightful Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip With Sam and Graham<\/em>, a Scottish travelogue with Heughan and costar Graham McTavish, who played Jamie\u2019s uncle Dougal MacKenzie. For those still thirsty, there\u2019s Heughan\u2019s new whiskey brand, Sassenach \u2014 which also happens to be Jamie\u2019s nickname for Claire.<\/p>\n

Each time the show comes back, something new reignites viewer passions: decadent Parisian court intrigue; the tragic end of Highland culture at the Battle of Culloden; pregnant Claire\u2019s return to the 20th century and husband Frank (Tobias Menzies); the Frasers\u2019 reunion; their daughter Bree (Sophie Skelton) and her boyfriend (now husband) Roger\u2019s (Richard Rankin) trips through time to join them in the New World.<\/p>\n

But if there\u2019s one welcome constant, it is Claire\u2019s enduring journey. She\u2019s a leader, just as Outlander<\/em> is in the trend toward more female-led shows. Since its debut, we\u2019ve seen everything from mystery Big Little Lies<\/em> to historic drama Harlots<\/em>, dark comedies Dead to Me<\/em> and Fleabag<\/em> and Michaela Cole\u2019s edgy I May Destroy You<\/em>. And the prolific Gabaldon shows no signs of slowing; her latest series entry is No. 9, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone<\/em>, which arrived in November 2021. The show\u2019s faithful are sure to raise a glass to that because, as Jamie himself might say, when it comes to Outlander<\/em>, we canna get enough.<\/p>\n

Outlander<\/strong><\/em>, Season 6 Premiere, Sunday, March 6, 9\/8c, Starz <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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“#How the Starz Series Became a TV Smash Hit” This is an excerpt from TV Guide Magazine\u2019s Outlander Forever Special Collector\u2019s Issue, which is available for international pre-order online at OutlanderForever.com and available nationwide on newsstands now. Before Outlander even started steaming up our TV screens on August 9, 2014, the sexy saga had superfans….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":394819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/outlander-season-1-jamie-claire-sam-heughan-caitriona-balfe-1014x570.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}