According to reports, STARZ has given a 16-episode TV series order to "Outlander", a dramatic adaptation of author Diana Gabaldon’s fantasy/romance novels, supervised by Ron Moore ("Battlestar Galactica") and Sony Pictures TV, with production scheduled to start October 2013 in Scotland.
"Outlander" (published in the UK as "Cross Stitch") is the first novel in a series of seven by Gabaldon, set in 18th century Scotland:
"...following World War II, Brit Army nurse 'Claire Randall' and her husband 'Frank', an Oxford history professor who briefly worked for 'MI6', go on a second honeymoon to Inverness, Scotland. Scotland is of ingterest to Frank, because of his ancestor 'Black Jack Randall', who was a prominent captain in the British Army.
"While Frank goes over documents, Claire and a fellow amateur botanist go plant-gathering near a group of standing stones on the hill of 'Craigh na Dun'. The couple decide to visit the site together watching apagan ritual while concealed behind bushes.
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"Claire returns the next day, becomes disoriented and faints when investigating a buzzing noise near the stones. Waking to the sound of battle in the distance. Struggling to make sense of her surroundings, she runs into a man claiming to be Captain Randal..."
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