Lexx

Lexx
The opening credits to Lexx
Created by	Paul Donovan Lex Gigeroff Jeffrey Hirschfield
Starring	Brian Downey Eva Habermann (season 1–2) Michael McManus Xenia Seeberg (season 2–4) Jeffrey Hirschfield Tom Gallant
Country of origin	Canada United Kingdom Germany
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	61 (Including Season 1) (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	Season 1 (2 hrs. approx.) Season 2 – 4 (45 minutes approx.)
Production company(s)	Salter Street Films CHUM Television Silverlight Ltd.
Release
Original network	Global Television Network Sci Fi Channel Five CHUM Television's Space
Original release	18 April 1997 – 26 April 2002
External links
Website

Lexx is a science fiction television series that follows the adventures of a group of mismatched individuals aboard the organic space craft Lexx. They travel through two universes and encounter planets including a parody of the Earth.

The series is a Canadian and German co-production, with some additional funding from Britain's Channel 5. The Sci Fi Channel purchased the series from Salter Street Films and began airing versions of Season 2 episodes for United States' audience in January 2000.Lexx was co-produced by Salter Street Films, later absorbed by Alliance Atlantis. In Canada, Lexx aired on the Alliance Atlantis-owned Showcase network. The series was primarily filmed in Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada) and Berlin (Germany), with additional filming on location in Iceland, Bangkok (Thailand), Namibia and London.

The main characters of the series are the Lexx and its crew. The crew consists of the captain of the Lexx, Stanley H. Tweedle, the love slave Zev/Xev, the undead former assassin Kai, last of the Brunnen-G, and the love-crazed robot head 790. Together they are looking for a new home. The background conflict of the series is the war between Mankind and the Insect Civilization, in which each side seeks the annihilation of the other. It was foretold to Kai that one day he will destroy the last remnant of the Insect Civilization.

The plot unfolds across a time span of over 6,000 years. Kai's death (or undeath) occurs 2,008 years before the beginning of the events of the series. For the first two seasons, each episode is focused on space travel and usually one different planet. Each of the last two seasons has a single location for all episodes. At the beginning of Season 3 the crew spends about 4,000 years in cryostats before arriving at the twin planets of Fire and Water. In Season 4, the Lexx reaches our Earth in the present.