Syfy to Offer Marathons for ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and ‘Xena: Warrior Princess’

Syfy will host marathons for Battlestar Galactica and Xena: Warrior Princess this month. Tricia Helfer, star of Battlestar Galactica, and Lucy Lawless, star of Xena, will host the marathons.

The Xena marathon happens Thursdays starting April 16, showing all six seasons in the morning and afternoon. Lawless hosts.

Xena originally aired in syndication, from 1995 to 2001. There are 134 episodes.

The Battlestar marathon happens April 20-23. The marathon will include the two-part miniseries, all four Syfy seasons and the final movie The Plan. Helfer will host throughout.

Helfer hosts the podcast “Battlestar Galacticast” with Marc Bernardin.

Battlestar Galactica, a reboot of the series that was on 1978-1979, aired on the former Sci Fi Channel starting in late 2003. 

Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.