Frazer Hines' "good news" tweet finally revealed...

[Brad Phipps]

www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/news/a591188/doctor-whos-frazer-hines-cast-in-starz-series-outlander.html#~oNmSzIjeQaskEC

Doctor Who's Frazer Hines has reportedly been cast in Starz series Outlander.

The actor - who played Jamie McCrimmon, a companion of the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), on the BBC sci-fi show - will portray Sir Fletcher Gordon, the governor of Wentworth Prison.

Outlander author Diana Gabaldon announced Hines's casting at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, reports.

"He is a lovely guy and I am really pleased," she added.

Gabaldon also revealed that Hines's Doctor Who character partly inspired her novels, after she first saw him in a kilt as Jamie McCrimmon.

Well done to him.

[mattplace]

Fantastic!. liked what ive seen of this series so far
Go Frazer!

[John Green]

Were all the episodes of 'Outlander' b&w?

(Sorry about that!).

[Hugh Pearson]

No, but you can fiddle with the dials on your TV to adjust for that . . . WAIT A MINUTE, first you have to start the Time Rotor

[Bobby Clark (synthpopalooza)]

Acch, he's playin' a bloody SASSENACH! Still, should be fun.

[Bobby Clark (synthpopalooza)]

Ok, interesting. Quoted from Wikipedia:

"Author Diana Gabaldon credits watching Frazer Hines in the Doctor Who serial The War Games (and finding him fetching in a kilt) as the inspiration for setting her first novel, Outlander, in 18th-century Scotland, and for naming the novel's male protagonist "Jamie".(However, she says that the character's surname, "Fraser", is a coincidence, as the PBS station on which she watched Doctor Who habitually cut off the episode's credits, so she did not learn Frazer Hines' name until several years after Outlander was published.)"