The series is a Canadian/German co-production, with some additional funding from Britain's Channel 5. Because it was not made for a US network it includes a lot more sexual innuendo (and, at least in the early episodes, nudity) than US audiences are generally accustomed to. As of 2004, the show was intermittently shown on the SciFi Channel.

The crew of the Lexx includes:

• Security guard 4th class Stanley H. Tweedle, agent of a failed rebellion and, by accident, captain of the Lexx.
• Zev (later Xev) Bellringer of planet B3K, a half-lizard, renegade love slave.
• 790 (robot), a robot head programmed to love Zev.
• Kai, last of the Brunnen G, an emotionless, undead assassin.

There were four series of Lexx. The first consisted of 4 two-hour TV movies (sometimes screened as eight one-hour episodes), alternatively titled Tales from a Parallel Universe. However, some episode guides do not list the 2-hour movies as a series but confusingly list the subsequent seasons as the first through third.

The second series consisted of 20 hour-long episodes with an overall story arc concerning a tyrant called Mantrid who wants to destroy the universe and the Lexx.

The third series comprises 13 episodes in which the Lexx is trapped in orbit around the warring Planet Fire and Planet Water, and the crew encounter the enigmatic and cheerfully evil Ismbard Prince, who may be the Devil.

In the fourth and final series of 24 episodes, Lexx arrives at Earth in the year 2000, only to find that Prince and several other old adversaries have arrived there too. Between them, Prince and the Lexx manage to demolish large chunks of the Earth before the climactic final episode.

Lexx was co-produced by Salter Street Films, later absorbed byAlliance Atlantis.

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