Talking to Maril Davis about Outlander's 9th anniversary

As a program reviewer, chatting to the people behind my favorite shows is one of my favorite things, and yesterday I got to talk to Outlander's Executive Producer Maril Davis!

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2014 marked the 9th anniversary of Starz's debut Outlander episode.

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Maril, Ron Moore, Matt Roberts, Terry Dresbach, and Gary Steele were the original "dream team"

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that created the show. We talked about Maril's decade, what she's learned, and what's next for Outlander and her.

Maril, congrats! Today is the Starz premiere of Outlander!

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You've had it longer. I started writing about the show 10 years ago. How soon did you start planning?

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The origin story of this is that Matt Roberts gave me the books to read since I was searching for a project to work on with Ron, I loved them,

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and we set up a meeting with the rights holders. It went OK, but they wanted to do films, so we left the meeting and I told Ron it had to be a TV show. We left, and I kept peeking back to see if they were interested. One time, they were. Long time.

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