Outlander season 5: Three great times for Starz to announce renewal

As many of our CarterMatt readers are more than familiar with at this point, we are doing our best to firmly lead the charge for an Outlander season 5 renewal. Why wouldn’t we? The Starz drama is one of the best on TV and there are many more stories worth telling from the Diana Gabaldon source material. Even at the conclusion of season 4 production this spring we, in theory, could have another six seasons to go. The dream is for the show to do a season for every book in the series, but for now, let’s take this one season at a time. The last thing that we want to do is get ahead of ourselves and start offering up false hope.

Now that we’ve said that, we do think that a season 5 renewal is a lock. Ronald D. Moore and even Starz themselves have confirmed that there are renewal talks taking place; it’s all a matter of when the contracts get written up and the announcement is made. If it doesn’t happen, we’d consider it to be one of the most stunning cancellations in history. Networks don’t cancel their second-most-watched series four seasons in when there are multiple seasons left to go. They just don’t.

Below, we’ve singled out for you what are three perfect times in which Starz could go ahead and make the renewal for season 5 official.

1. This Sunday (January 7) – The Golden Globes are going to be taking place on NBC; regardless of whether or not Caitriona Balfe wins, wouldn’t this be a great time for an announcement? You could have Balfe even announce the news on the red carpet beforehand if you want to make the biggest splash possible.

2. Counterpart premiere (January 21) – The logic here is simple: Starz could hype up the premiere of the JK Simmons show by making it clear that there will be an Outlander announcement at some point before the show. That boosts Counterpart’s premiere ratings while also ensuring that the Outlander renewal news gets as much exposure as possible.

3. Valentine’s Day – Obviously, we’d love to see the show renewed long before we get around to this date, but with it being a celebration of love — what better symbol of love is there than Jamie and Claire Fraser? In terms of timely announcements, there are very few we’d consider to be better.

Is it possible that Starz could just announce the renewal via a press release? Sure, but we’re all for them making a big splash and finding a way to turn this announcement into a celebration.

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For some other insight right away on the series, be sure to check out a fun piece we wrote earlier talking about the significance of Fraser’s Ridge.

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