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Prime Video has confirmed that the Outlander prequel, Blood of my Blood, will launch on August8th.

Outlander: Blood of my Blood brings viewers from the war-torn battlefields of WWI to the sweeping Highlands of 18th century Scotland, promising two new love stories filled with loyalty, passion and desire, as the young couples defy the forces that seek to tear them apart. New episodes will be available to stream weekly on Fridays.

A stand-alone prequel series, Outlander: Blood of my Blood “features new cast, characters and stories welcoming viewers unfamiliar with the “Outlander” universe, while also providing origin stories of characters from early seasons of “Outlander,” and offering new perspectives that will change what viewers of the original series think they know.”  Hermione Corfield and Jeremy Irvine, Harriet Slater and Jamie Roy play the parents of “Outlander’s” central couple, Claire and Jamie, alongside Tony Curran as Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, Séamus McLean Ross as Colum MacKenzie, Sam Retford as Dougal MacKenzie, Rory Alexander as Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser, and Conor MacNeill as Ned Gowan.