‘Outlander’ Star Sam Heughan Wishes Fans A Happy New Year From Season 3 Set

A new “Outlander” video shows Sam Heughan on the set of Season 3 in Scotland. Much to fans’ disappointment, it doesn’t reveal much about the new season. However, many viewers will still be delighted to see the actor dressed as Jamie again.

The video, released by Starz on New Year’s Day, shows Heughan dressed as his Highlander character. He still looks young, though. That either means he was filming a flashback or the drama really isn’t planning to age him. “Outlander” jumped 20 years ahead at the end of last season.

“Here’s to the new year, Outlanders. Cheers to 2017 and the adventures ahead,” Heughan says as he raises a glass.

His character Jamie will have quite a few adventures in the new year. When “Outlander” Season 3 kicks off, viewers will see what happens when Jamie and Black Jack (Tobias Menzies) meet on the battlefield at Culloden. Showrunner Ronald D. Moore said they had to add in the scene, despite it never appearing in the book.

“It just felt like for the TV show, we’ve been promising this for a while and it just felt like we should have something,” Moore told Entertainment Weekly. “We should give the audience some sense of what happened on that moor.”

It won’t just be violence for Jamie, though. Eventually, he’ll reunite with his love Claire (Caitriona Balfe), who is determined to go back to the past. Their reunion scene will take place in a print shop, and Heughan teased that it was filmed before the holidays.

Later in the season, the story will move to Jamaica. “Outlander” will temporarily move their set to South Africa, and Jamie and Claire will have to ditch all those wool layers.

While there is plenty for “Outlander” fans to look forward to in 2017, they still don’t know when to expect these exciting scenes to air. Starz has yet to announce a premiere date for Season 3.