In case you missed out on tickets to the Outlander S6 World Premiere Event in London on Thursday, 24 February 2022, you now have the chance to snag one of the limited tickets to attend the permiere virtually.
Registration opens on this website on Friday, 18 February 2022 at 5pm (GMT).
Good luck to everyone 🍀! Don’t forget to share your stories with us if you do attend (virtually or in person!)
Season 6 of hit TV series Outlander will return after a long “droughtlander” period to our screens on 6 March 2022. The new episodes will be based in parts on Diana Gabaldon’s 6th novel A Breath of Snow and Ashes (other parts of the book had already been covered in the previous season).
It is yet unknown which of these episodes will see the #BonnieComeback but we can’t wait to see Andrew Gower reprise his role as Bonnie Prince Charlie in the upcoming season.
Andrew Gower as “Bonnie Prince” Charles Edward Stuart
We are starting of the new year with a bit of a surprise!
Who better to have a chat about Eliza Scarlet‘s best friend and investor Rupert Parker with than the actor himself who portrayed him so beautifully in Season 1?
Thank you so much, Andrew Gower, for joining us, for your insights and the laughs! 💙
As always you can listen to the Scarleteers Podcast by clicking the link in the menu on the top of the page or wherever you usually listen to your Podcasts (Audible, iTunes, Spotify, etc).
Andrew Gower is a guest at the latest episode of The Blue Room Podcast. The Blue Room is an independent website for Andrew’s favourite football team Everton.
In the episode hosts Matt Jones and Rob Vera reflect on Andrew’s work and love of the Toffees (which is the nickname for Everton fans) before they discuss the latest match.
He also reveals that he’s currently developing a feature length version of his short film Humpty Fu*king Dumpty, which he filmed in February 2019 and premiered on 8 May 2020. Fellow Outlander alumni Stephen Walters is back as the film’s writer/director with Michael Knowles (Running Naked) producing. They are hoping to shoot the feature version in early 2022 depending on the progress of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Andrew Gower, who had originally been announced as a guest on 21 December 2019, was able to attend the convention on Saturday, 20 November 2021 to meet his fans, sign autographs and take pictures with them.
You can find some pictures from the event in our Gallery.
Did you have the chance to meet him? At a convention, at the stage door or another event? Let us know! We’d love to hear your stories and see your pictures!
We have an update for you about the first UK screening of Running Naked in front of a live audience!
It will now take place on Thursday, 21 October 2021 at 7:00pm at the MitchellArts Centre in Stoke-on-Trent (UK). The screening will be followed by a Q&A with producers Andy Paton and Michael Knowles.
The “feel good buddy dramedy” about cancer survivors Ben (Andrew Gower) and Mark (Matthew McNulty) is also available on iTunes (UK, USA & Canada), Amazon Prime (UK & USA), Sky (UK) and several other streaming platforms in the USA.
Two years after the cast of Carnival Row came together in Prague to start filming Season 2 of the Amazon Prime series, it is finally a wrap!
The second installment of the neo-noir drama was first officially announced on 27 July 2019, more than a month before Season 1 premiered on the streaming platform but producton suffered some severe delays due to a change in showrunners, the Covid-19 pandemic and Orlando Bloom’s paternal leave following the birth of his daughter Daisy Dove with singer/actress Katy Perry.
Bloom, who is also one of the show’s executive producers, announced in an interview with entertainment website Collider that Season 2 would be split into 2 parts.
“To keep the momentum of the show moving forward […] they are going to release the first half of the season and add one [episode].”
“We would like to go back and polish it off a little bit. I managed to get in and out and get some stuff done so we could close out that first half of the second season…”
Season 2.1 wrapped after a short re-shoot in August 2020 and cast & crew returned to Barrandov Studois in the Czech Republic in May 2021 to film the remaining 5 episodes of Season 2.2.
On 9 September 2021 several cast & crew members took to social media to celebrate the final wrap of Season 2. Amazon Prime hasn’t confirmed a release date for any of the new episode but speculation points to early 2022 for the first half and 2023 for the second.
Judging by Andrew Gower‘s filmography on his agent’s website, it seems like he’ll reprise his role as Bonnie Prince Charlie in the upcoming 6th season of Outlander which is currently in post-production and rumoured for a release in early 2022.
Season 6 of the historical drama series is based on the 6th book of Diana Gabaldon‘s Highland saga A Breath of Snow and Ashes which is set just before the American Revolutionary War. Time-travelling WW2 combat nurse Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and her 18th century Highland warrior husband Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) now live in the American colonies and try to build a life for their extended family and a number of Scottish refugees, who used to fight alongside Jamie in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 under the “Young Pretender” Prince Charles Edwad Stuart (Andrew Gower).
In August 1774, Claire and Jamie are invited to a barbecue at River Run, the plantation of Jamie’s wealthy Aunt Jocasta (Maria Doyle Kennedy). Guest of honour for the occassion is none other than the “Heroine of the Highlands” Flora MacDonald, who famously helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape Government troups by dressing him up as her Irish maid Betty Burke.
When Claire meets Flora at the party she reminisces about what became of the Prince after the Battle of Culloden where his Highland army was devastatingly defeated by British forces led by Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (also known as “Butcher Cumberland”).
“Bonnie” Prince Charles Edward Suart and Flora MacDonald
Odd, that it should have been the defeat of Charles Stuart, and his ignominious flight, that made a heroine of Flora MacDonald and united these Highland exciles in a way that they could never have achieved – let alone sustained – had he actually won.
It struck me suddenly that Charlie was likely still alive, quietly drinking himself to death in Rome. In any real way, though, he was long since dead to these people who had loved or hated him. The amber of time had sealed him forever in that one defining moment of his life – Bliadha Tearlach; “Charlie’s Year,” it meant, and even now, I heard people call it that.
(Source: Diana Gabaldon – A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Chapter 54 “Flora MacDonald’s Barbecue”)
It is possible that the TV adaption will use this encounter with Flora MacDonald for a brief flashback to show the Prince’s flight from Scotland in 1746 or maybe it will give us a glimpse at the aged Prince, “quietly drinking himself to death in Rome” as the novel says.
Either way, it’ll definitely be a scene worth seeing – and dare we hope for a final (and 18th) “mark me”?
Andrew Gower as Bonnie Prince Charlie in S2 of Outlander (middle), with the Prince dressed as Betty Burke (left) and Charles Edward Stuart in 1775 (right)
On 30 August 2021, it will have been exactly two years since the first season of fantasy-noir drama series Carnival Row premiered on Amazon Prime. At that point season 2 was already in pre-production, the renewal having been confirmed a month prior to the release date of season 1.
So what’s the current status of season 2, when can fans expect to see it and what else do we know?
To try to answer some of our burning questions, we’ll take a look at the production timeline of season 1 in comparison to season 2. For further information on the “Evolution of Carnival Row” from a blacklisted spec script to being devolped into an Amazon Prime series, see our post here.
9 January 2015: Amazon signs a development deal ordering 3 scripts to be co-written by Guillermo del Torro, René Echevarria and Travis Beacham based on the latter’s spec script A Killing on Carnival Row.
6 June 2016: The production is given a pilot order.
10 May 2017: Carnival Row is given a series order. Guillermo del Torro is replaced by Paul McGuigan as director, pre-production starts at Barrandov Studios in Prague
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October 2017: Principal photography starts in the Czech Republic
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10 November 2017: Paul McGuigan is replaced by Jon Amiel
David Gyasi, Tamzin Merchant, Cara Delevingne, Orlando Bloom & Travis Beacham at San Diego Comic Con 2019
It seems like both seasons followed a similar production schedule and had it not been for the production hiatus following the change in showrunners, principal photography could have wrapped before the Covid-19 pandemic forced it to halt. At least parts of post-production could have been done during lockdown and S2 released in the fall of 2021.
Production could have resumed in the Czech Republic as soon as May 2020 but – with the exception of a quick re-shoot – the decision was made to wait another year, presumably to allow lead actor and executive producer Orlando Bloom time to be with his pregnant fiancée Katy Perry and (later) their newborn daughter. Instead S2 will be split in two parts with the first one being in post-production since August 2020.
When can fans expect to see the first 5 episodes of S2? Please bear in mind that the following is pure speculation at this point!
With Wheel of Time, Amazon Prime has another highly anticipated fantasy series coming out this year (rumoured to be in November 2021) and it’s not unlikely that they will team up both shows to gain more viewers for both shows. Considering that Carnival Row will only have 5 new episodes, adding it to Wheel of Time‘s 6 episodes sounds like a good idea.
The question remains which series will be the lead-in: Will we see Carnival Row or Wheel of Time first?
Only time will tell, but today’s news that actor Jamie Harris (Sergeant Dombey on Carnival Row) has been promoted to series regular might indicate that more news are to follow very soon. We are ready to see more of Andrew Gower as Ezra Spurnrose and find out what happened to his sister Imogen and her fae lover Mr Agreus!
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