Cameron is said to have met with the executives 10 weeks before the historic referendum to discuss the TV show, which was shown in the US last August but delayed in the UK until several months after the vote in September. Outlander is based on the multi genre novels by Diana Gabaldon. The story is set between 1945 and the 18th century Scotland, featuring Scottish rebels fighting against British rule as part of the Jacobite risings.

The "importance" of the US television drama Outlander to the political atmosphere of last year's Independence Referendum was highlighted by key TV executives before a meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron.

President Obama said he would support measures opening backdoors in communications and social media technologies last January. Such measures would force companies like Apple and Google to create holes in their programming that would let the government track suspected criminals or terrorists. “Social media and the Internet is the primary way in which these terrorist organizations are communicating,” Obama said in a Jan. 16 press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on cybersecurity.