• TV Highlights (German) Magazine 18 November 2005. Article about Lucy and Vampire Bats. Translation to follow in the next few days.
• Star Magazine - 7 November 2005 - Review of Vampire Bats

October 2005

• TV Times (Los Angeles Times TV Guide supplement) 30 October - 5 November 2005. In a new CBS thriller, Lucy Lawless is in hot pursuit of "Vampire Bats"
• The Fresno Bee - 28 October 2005 'Xena' actress goes to bats Her crew got a real-life jolt from Katrina. Forget blood-sucking vampire bats. It was Hurricane Katrina that scared actress Lucy Lawless.
• The Tampa Tribune 30 October 2005 - The Bat Pack. Four young Tampa area actors shoot pool with Lucy Lawless and face Hurricane Katrina while filming the TV movie "Vampire Bats."
• New York Vue - 30 October 2005 Blood Thirst - Lucy Lawless Stars in "Vampire Bats" - Scans contributed by Victoria
• Arkansas Democrat Gazette 30 October 2005 Vampire Bats wing it to CBS - Lucy Lawless stars as the crusading scientist and critter hunter on the CBS made-for-tv movie Vampire Bats - Scan contributed by Beth
• Toronto Star 30 October 2005 - Xena vs. Mother Nature Locusts, mutant bats, a vast flood — these are the terrors that torment Lucy Lawless - updated with scans from maRia
• Dallas Morning News 30 October 2005 'Locusts' conquered, Lawless puts bite on bats - Scans contributed by Lisa
• Toronto Star 29 October 2005 - Lucy in the sky with... bats?
• Houston Chronicle 30 October 2005 Bats in New Orleans
  Besides the cool title and seeing Xena's Lucy Lawless reprise her Locusts' role, there's another good reason to check out tonight's Vampire Bats on CBS: the New Orleans scenery.

• Zap2It 29 October 2005 Lucy Lawless Faces 'Vampire Bats'
  ...As with Bruce Willis opposing terrorist after terrorist in the "Die Hard" movies, could Lawless fight even more horrors in future CBS offerings? "Oh, I don't know," she muses. "How many plagues are there? I'm really looking forward to 'Head Lice.'"

• Entertainment Weekly - 28 October 2005 - Lucy Lawless on Vampire Bats

• Boston Herald 28 October 2005 From ‘Bats’ to Baton Rouge: TV’s Xena battles hurricane during filming of CBS movie

• USA Today - 28 October 2005 The network's first attempt, Spring Break Shark Attack, had too much soap and too little shark. The second, Locusts, suffered from some buggy monsters that would only be terrifying to an amber wave of grain. But homicidal, mutant vampire bats? I am so there.

• TV Guide Online 28 October 2005 Lucy Lawless: From Xena to Katrina. Lucy Lawless really should go on Fear Factor. The former Xena: Warrior Princess star had to fight off a swarm of gonzo grasshoppers earlier this year in the CBS TV-movie Locusts, and now in the sequel, the imaginatively titled Vampire Bats (Sunday at 9 pm/ET), she's battling a horde of... well, you get the idea. But she also weathered far more real storms this year, as you'll see in TVGuide.com's interview with the Kiwi.
• The Times-Picayune 28 October 2005 - Bats' just entertainment, Lucy Lawless says. The cast and crew of "Vampire Bats" had about a week of shooting left when Hurricane Katrina forced evacuation.
  Star Lucy Lawless waited until midmorning on Katrina Sunday to leave.
• New York Post - 28 October 2005 BAT-TY BOOP
  FRESH from their riveting roles in that TV movie classic, "Locusts," Dr. Maddy Rierdon (Lucy Lawless, "Xena") and hubby Dan Dryer (Dylan Neal) are back to battle more revolting creatures in a soon-to- be-classic,  "Vampire Bats."
• Added Hollywood Reporter 27 October 2005 - Review of Vampire Bats
• Added scan from Press Enterprised 27 October 2005 - Lucy Lawless tackles "Vampire Bats"
• Variety Magazine 26 October 2005 - Review of Vampire Bats
• ET Online 26 October 2005 Lucy Lawless' Hurricane Scare Kiwi powerhouse LUCY LAWLESS was filming her new CBS TV movie "Vampire Bats" in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. ET's KEVIN FRAZIER talked to the star about her new thriller, and her terrifying encounter with the hurricane.
• NZ Herald 26 October 2005 Lawless graduates from locusts to vampire bats Actress Lucy Lawless is taking on vampire bats in her latest role, rather than confronting the vengeful gods of her former Xena: Warrior Princess series.
• SciFi.com Review - Vampire Bats Review 26 October 2005 - After their adventures in the CBS movie Locusts, professor Maddy Rierdon (Lawless) and her husband, Dan Dryer (Neal), attempt to get their bearings after moving to Louisiana with their two daughters in search of a simpler life.
• TV Guide (US) - 24 October 2005 It's Xena! Vampire Bats (CBS, 9 pm)
• Associated Press 24 October 2005 - Lucy Lawless tackles "Vampire Bats"
• St Petersburg Times - 24 October 2005 - Among campy and classic on TV for Halloween is the toothless Vampire Bats, which nevertheless gives a local actor his big break.
• TV SMACKDOWN: Lucy Lawless is on the job! - 21 October 2005
• St Petersburg Times blog 21 October 2005 Xena, Xena .. Las Veggaaasssss
• Beacon TV 21 October 2005 - A Few Minutes With Lucy Lawless
• Not too soon for a spook sampler  New York Newsday - 21 October 2005
  ... Vampire Bats (Oct. 30 at 9 pm, CBS) - Lucy Lawless and Dylan Neal in a new TV-movie sequel to last year's "Locusts," with Brett Butler and Craig Ferguson. ...
• Gannett News Service - 14 October 2005 - CBS uncloaks 'Vampire Bats'
  "Vampire Bats" seems cozily distant from the harshness of realism and real life. "It's good fun," says Lucy Lawless, who stars in the CBS movie on Halloween eve. "Not everything has to be deep and meaningful."

September 2005

• Entertainment Weekly 16 September 2005 Storm Surge: Entertainers respond as tragedy hits New Orleans

•  TV Highlights 22 September 2005 - Battlestar Xena. Article about Lucy's role on Battlestar Galactica and Vampire Bats from the German magazine. In German.

• Click here to read the Harrsion On The Edge Lucy Interview transcript

• New Zealand 4 September 2005 Young Kiwis make it out of New Orleans hellhole

• Daily News 1 September 2005 No cheers in Hollywood as film rival flattened. "There is nothing I would love more than to film near my house in Los Angeles," Lawless said. "But if you have to go away, Louisiana is a wonderful place to be. It's such an evocative place, visually and culturally."  Lawless said the hope is to resume shooting somewhere else as early as next week. "We're trying to regroup," she said. "We are very passionate about finishing and seeing the film through."

August 2005

• ET Online - 31 August 2005 - Lucy Lawless' Race To Escape Hurricane Katrina

• The National Ledger - 31 August 2005 Lucy Lawless Grateful to Make it Out of Katrina's Path. From Baton Rouge, La., Lucy Lawless tells us she's definitely among those who consider themselves lucky to be alive after rushing out of the path of Hurricane Katrina. She's been working and temporarily living in New Orleans, making the CBS Halloween movie "Vampire Bats."

• SciFi Wire 30 August 2005 Katrina Affects SF&F Film Shoots -The CBS TV movie Vampire Bats, meanwhile, had a week to go on its four-week shoot. Executive producer Frank von Zertner told the trade paper: "Basically what we have left to do can be done anywhere. Most of our exteriors are pretty much accomplished. As luck would have it, we were very lucky with weather."

• Fangoria Magazine - 30 August 2005 Lucy Lawless battles BATS, escapes hurricane

• Hollywood Reporter 30 August 2005 - Frank von Zerneck, who is producing "Vampire," said it would be at least a week before his production could resume what would have been its last week of shooting. "Everyone is safe," von Zerneck said, "but now I'm dealing with things like, are the trucks flooded? Where is the equipment? Everything was boxed up and stored, but now the city is pretty much closed down."

• Washington Times - 29 August 2005 Stars flee Big Easy film sets - Lucy evacuates from the set of Vampire Bats.

• United Press International 25 August 2005 Lucy Lawless takes on 'Vampire Bats'

• New York Post - 25 August 2005 Xena Turns Into Buffy

• scifi.about.com 22 August 2005 - Interview with Lucy - Lucy Lawless Sheds Light on Battlestar Galatica. A very good interview that also touches on Xena and the movie Vampire Bats

• SciFi Wire - 22 August 2005 Lawless Batty About Vampire
  Lucy Lawless, who stars in the upcoming CBS horror movie Vampire Bats, told SCI FI Wire she's reprising her role as a bug specialist and college professor from last year's telefilm Locusts. The former Xena: Warrior Princess star played Dr. Maddy Rierdon in Locusts, which dealt with a town taken over by swarming bugs. Now, she's battling bloodthirsty bats, Lawless said in an interview.

• Softpedia News - 21 August 2005 - Lucy Lawless Thinks a "Xena" Movie Would Be Great. Article about the Xena Movie, Vampire Bats and Battlestar Galactica

• FilmStew.com 19 August 2005 CBS Loads Up on Bats. Frank Von Zerneck and Robert Sertner are producing the network's sequel to last season's Locusts.

• E! Online has brief mention of the movie for the 15 August 2005 Movie News
  Craig Ferguson has gone Bat-ty. The Late Late Show host is set to cameo in CBS' Vampire Bats, a sequel to last year's miniseries Locusts. The telepic follows a group of scientists who link a breed of vampire bats to a series of bizarre murders. Lucy Lawless and Dylan Neal reprise their original roles in the telepic. Brett Butler and Timothy Buttons also star. Shooting has already begun in New Orleans.

• The National Enquirier 18 August 2005 Xena Star Goes Batty - brief mention about Lucy's new movie "Vampire Bats" and a picture of her from the La Boheme Premiere in 2004

• CBS News release (via Futon Critic) 17 August 2005 - Lucy Lawless ("Zena: Warrior Princess," "Tarzan") and Dylan Neal ("Dawson's Creek") reprise their roles as Dr. Maddy Rierdon and Dan Dryer from the highly-rated CBS Television Movie "Locusts" in VAMPIRE BATS, a new television movie that has begun production in New Orleans for broadcast Sunday, Oct. 30 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Read more

• Variety Magazine 16 August 2005 CBS jazzes up telepix - Butler, Bottoms join 'Bats'. Article about the newest cast members for Vampire Bats

• Dread Central - 4 August 2005 - Lawless Bats!

July 2005

• Times Union 23 July 2005 Nice finds a home on Hallmark

• Salt Lake Tribune 21 July 2005 It's the end of the world! Well, at least on CBS movies

• TV Guide Online 20 July 2005 TV-Movie Madness - CBS will battle Desperate Housewives with edgier fare - Contributed by LB

• Added blog entry for someone who has got a part in Lucy's new movie.
  Contains spoilers

• Washington Post - 20 July 2005 - CBS Entertainment Chief: She Could've Danced All Night

• Zap2It - 19 July 2005 - CBS Pops Corn with Sunday Movies

• Variety Magazine 11 July 2005 Eye on Telepic Pair about the movie and it's producers Frank Von Zerneck and Bob Sertner.