“Spartacus” star Lucy Lawless returns to Starz for its new “Ash Vs. Evil Dead” television series from producers Sam Raimi, husband Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell, reprising his role as boomstick bad boy Ashley J. Williams.

“Ash Vs. Evil Dead” picks up 30-years after Ash’s last battle with the Deadites and finds the reluctant hero forced out of hiding to stop a new uprising. Lawless plays a mysterious woman out to nix the source of the evil, who she happens to think is Ash.

“Ash vs. Evil Dead” will feature 10 30-minute episodes and is slated to premiere later this year. Raimi will co-write and direct the pilot episode.

Lawless is coming off the Starz original series “Spartacus” in which she played Lucretia, the ambitious and conniving wife of Spartacus owner Quintus Batiatus. She plays German witch Countess Marburg on season two of WGN’s “Salem” and is, of course, best known as “Xena: Warrior Princess.”