SF show transmission dates

[altariel]

I am trying to track down UK transmission dates for a couple of shows, neither of which I watched from the beginning or watched to the end. I'm poking around the net, but because I am lazy because I know what wonderful, brilliant, sparkly people you all are, perhaps there is someone who knows this kind of thing off the top of his/her head.

I need to know the start and end dates of transmission for:

Lexx
Andromeda

(Only the years, and in the UK.)

I found a website which gives terrestrial TV transmission dates, but I'm sure these first aired on Sky or Sci-Fi or whatever. Or did Lexx turn up on Channel 5 first?

Edited to say: OK, this is what net-searching has suggested so far - if anyone reading these dates thinks they're wildly wrong, please shout:

Lexx (1999-2002)
Andromeda (2000-date)

Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I generally go to the Lysator archives when trying to work this sort of thing out.

Oh, that's a very good idea, I must remember that one.

Right, so it looks like my dates for Andromeda are OK, but that I need to bring Lexx back by a year. That does make more sense: 1999 seemed a bit late to allow all four series to run, plus the original Canadian transmission was 1997. I know it took a while to get sold abroad, but two years is perhaps a bit excessive. I think I was at a site that was listing DVD/video release dates but not clarifying that they weren't transmission dates.

Thank you for doing all this work, it's much appreciated. I was starting to tear my hair out.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I wonder whether the peculiar format of the first Lexx season, ie it isn't really a season at all but four sort-of-film-length-episodes, affected the initial UK broadcast? But I wasn't aware of it at that point, and can't quite remember which channel showed it first anyway. Not Sky, I think.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Is it the kind of thing that would into Sci-Fi's schedule pretty well?