Starz Media's SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND will star Lucy Lawless, with Australian actor Andy Whitfield in the title role, per VARIETY.
The fantasy-action hourly series goes into production in April and will air on Starz in January 2010. It is a reunion for Lawless and her XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS creators Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi. XENA ran in syndication from 1995-2001.
