{"id":12189,"date":"2022-03-14T15:22:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T14:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1604241"},"modified":"2022-03-14T15:55:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T14:55:16","slug":"outlander-scrapped-plans-for-additional-season-6-location-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/outlander-scrapped-plans-for-additional-season-6-location-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlander scrapped plans for additional season 6 location due to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By James Hibbs\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 14 March 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Outlander season 6 has just started airing after production was heavily delayed by the pandemic, and we\u2019re getting more information about just how the new episodes were affected.<\/p>\n

Stars and producers Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan spoke to Collider<\/a> and detailed the impact that COVID-19 protocols had on the show, with Heughan saying: \u201cI know that there were plans to travel to shoot elsewhere, but a large amount of the budget went to the COVID protocols.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Balfe added: \u201cI feel like there was a natural break in the storyline, where we ended up breaking. What we would\u2019ve done, we\u2019re gonna continue that when we go back to shoot. So, I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve lost anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not known where the additional location would have been, but the show has previously filmed in both Cape Town and Prague, as well as its usual home in Scotland.<\/p>\n

This season has a reduced number of episodes, with eight instead of the usual 12 or 13, and comes two years after the last season.<\/p>

Roger MacKenzie actor Richard Rankin recently revealed to RadioTimes.com<\/a> that there\u2019s a \u201creal strength\u201d to the combined family of Roger, Brianna, Jamie and Claire going into season 6, and that they have \u201ca really strong platform to take on the external factors in season 6, like the community and the Christies arriving, the Revolutionary War, the aftermath of what happened in season 5\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that Jamie found the respect for Roger,\u201d he added. \u201cThere was a lot of misunderstanding between the two of them from the off, but he\u2019s seen him in the light of what he is and has a respect and admiration for Roger, which will presumably continue from here on in.\u201d<\/p>\n