XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS
Syfy, 6:00 a.m. ET
Syfy is one of several cable networks reacting to the pandemic, and its sudden increase in TV viewers isolated at home for lengthy periods, by dusting off a page from the old cable TV playbook. Back in the old days, or the semi-old ones, some cable networks would pad out their 24-hour schedules by running marathons of TV reruns of a chosen series; some still do. And in direct response to current conditions, Syfy has unearthed and scheduled complete-series showings, sprinkled throughout its schedule, of such shows as Battlestar Galactica (the Syfy remake, not the horrid 1970s original) and, starting this morning, Lucy Lawless’ breakout female-empowerment action series, Xena: Warrior Princess. What Gal Gadot got such credit for doing, and representing, in Wonder Woman quite recently, Lawless and Xena were doing back in the late 1990s. Two decades later, in these Thursday daytime mini-marathons working their way through all six Xena seasons, it’s an influential, as well as enjoyable, series to revisit. Unless, that is, you’re Xena-phobic.