Goodbye Xena

Xena, shown in 120 countries, focus of fan-mania and Star Trek-like devotion, comes to an end. “We tried to take people on journeys that you won’t go through in your real life,” says Lucy Lawless, musing on the source of the Xena phenomenon. “You’re not going to battle the Hindu god of death, but we’ll all battle the theme of death at some stage of life”.