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TV Movies: 1996-1997
- I Worship His Shadow
- Supernova
- Eating Pattern
- Gigashadow
- Mantrid
- Terminal
- Lyekka
- Luvliner
- Lafftrak
- Stan’s Trial
- Love Grows
- White Trash
- 791
- Wake The Dead
- Nook
- Norb
- Twilight
- Patches In The Sky
- Woz
- The Web
- The Net
- Brigadoom
- Brizon
- The End Of The Universe
- Fire & Water
- May
- Gametown
- Boomtown
- Gondola
- K-Town
- Tunnels
- The Key
- Garden
- Battle
- Girltown
- The Beach
- Heaven And Hell
- Little Blue Planet
- Texx Lexx
- P4X
- Stan Down
- Xevivor
- The Rock
- Walpurgis Night
- Vlad
- Fluffdaddy
- Magic Baby
- A Midsummer’s Nightmare
- The Bad Carrot
- 769
- Prime Ridge
- Mort
- Moss
- Dutch Treat
- The Game
- Haley’s Comet
- Apocalexx Now
- Viva Lexx Vegas
- Trip
- Lyekka vs. Japan
- Yo Way Yo
Season Two – Mantrid: 1998-1999
A note about season 2 airdates used in this guide: For our season 2 guide, we are using the original Canadian world premiere airdates rather than the Sci-Fi Channel’s U.S. airdates; this season’s air order in the U.S. would most charitably be described as chaotic, making a complete mess of the serialized storyline.
Season Three – Heaven And Hell: 2000
Season Four – Little Blue Planet: 2001-2002
Conceived in the 1980s by Canadian writer/director Paul Donovan, Lexx is a bizarre show revolving around an undead assassin, a hapless misfit, a beautiful woman who’s part love slave and part killer lizard, and a decapitated robot head hopelessly in love with the latter (hence the fan-coined description of “the dirty three-and-a-half”). In a stolen sentient, organically-engineered warship called the Lexx, they flee from bad situations to worse, getting into ever more trouble in a dark and depraved cosmos. They barely escape the forces of His Divine Shadow and Mantrid, and the warring worlds of Fire and Water, only to meet their biggest challenge yet: the savage, primitive society of a blue planet called Earth. It’s a series which seems to be equal parts Red Dwarf and Fifth Element, but is completely unique.
Donovan created Lexx out of a desire to mount a Canadian-written, Canadian-produced series that wasn’t simply the product of a Hollywood studio’s desire to milk the economy of Canada for cheaper studio space and labor. In the end, Donovan and fellow writers Lex Gigeroff and Jeffrey Hirschfield had to seek foreign co-production deals to get Lexx off the ground. A German production company proved to be their most ideal partner, though certain provisions were demanded, including a German cast member in the form of Eva Habermann (later replaced by Xenia Seeburg). The four movie-length episodes initially produced were shown in the US only on the pay cable network Showtime, though a video release followed later. When the series went hourly, the Sci-Fi Channel carried it in both the US and the UK. Due to scheduling conflicts, Habermann bowed out as Zev early in the second season, with Xenia Seeburg taking the role (now renamed Xev).
Lexx gained acclaim, but also necessarily limited the range of its audience, by expanding the use of gore and sex throughout the series; indeed, many an episode focuses on the crew’s libidoes, playing it for laughs against a background of darkness and danger. More than once, Stan’s sex drive leads the Lexx crew into deadly situations. Still, the result was a series that was completely unlike anything else on TV, science fiction or otherwise. It also meant that the show had to struggle to stay on the air every year, often resulting in delays or curtailing production (season three was only half the length of the second and fourth seasons). During production for season four, Donovan and his cohorts decided to wind the series down. The door is still clearly left open for a follow-up or a spinoff, but it also stands equally well as the end of the show, with several “book end” moments that long-time fans would appreciate (but newcomers might find superfluous).