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After "Gunsmoke" paved the way for adult westerns on television, the floodgates opened up with every network trying to ride the success wave with oaters of their own like "Rawhide," "Bonanza," and "Wagon Train." Chief among them was "The Virginian," which holds the honor of being the third longest-running network western of all time. The NBC series ran for nine seasons and 249 episodes from 1962 to 1971. The distinction it holds over most of its cowboy television counterparts is that it was the first 90-minute Western series, with episodes running for 75 minutes plus commercials.

Loosely based on Owen Wister's 1902 novel "The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains," "The Virginian" had been adapted four times into feature films, with the version starring Gary Cooper considered among his best movies. Almost three decades later, James Drury performed a test drive for the character in a 1958 episode of the half-hour anthology series "Decision." Considerable...

Sara Lane, who portrayed the orphaned frontier girl Elizabeth Grainger for four seasons of the NBC drama The Virginian, has died. She was 73.

Lane died Friday at her home in Napa, California, after a six-year battle with breast cancer, her husband, Jon Scott, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Lane joined the 1890s Western for the start of its retooled fifth season in September 1966 alongside two other new castmembers: Charles Bickford, who played her grandfather, John Grainger, the new owner of the Shiloh Ranch, and Don Quine, who portrayed her older brother, Stacey Grainger.

She appeared on 105 episodes of the Wyoming Territory-set series through March 1970, with James Drury‘s title character and Doug McClure’s Trampas looking after Elizabeth. The Virginian aired one final season without her.

The oldest of three kids, Susan Russell Lane was born in New York on March 12, 1949. Her parents, Rusty Lane (The Harder They Fall) and Sara Anderson,...

Daily Tech News Show, the podcast covering the most important tech issues of the day with the smartest minds in technology, will begin its tenth year in podcasting on January 2, 2023.

Co-hosted by Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane, Daily Tech News Show is dedicated to giving listeners tech news that’s easy to understand. In just 30 minutes, Tom and Sarah, along with regular contributors and guests, analyze the day’s top tech headlines in a fun and informative way. “I love helping people understand technology,” says host Tom Merritt. “If you want to understand this tech thing you heard about, we’re the show that will explain it to you.”

Tom Merritt is an award-winning independent tech podcaster and host of regular tech news and information shows, like Daily Tech News Show. He previously produced TechTV’s The Screen Savers and served as an executive producer for TechTV's website until 2004. From...

With TV résumés that include Hannibal, Breaking Bad and True Detective, the three actors who lead Hulu’s The Path — Hugh Dancy, Aaron Paul and Michelle Monaghan — have plenty of experience playing messed-up characters.

And yet, the alter egos they portray on the streaming service’s newest drama might be even more morally ambiguous, emotionally complex and downright tormented than Will Graham, Jesse Pinkman and Maggie Hart. (And that’s really saying something.)

Created by Parenthood‘s Jessica Goldberg, The Path stars the trio as members of the Meyerist Movement, a cult-like organization that, for all intents and purposes, tries to help troubled souls — but,...

As longtime showrunner of Friday Night Lights, Jason Katims was responsible not only for one of the great family TV dramas of all time, but one of the most fundamentally spiritual. Church only occasionally became a major plot point (usually when Smash was around), but the characters' religion was presented upfront as a core part of who they were and what they cared about. On other shows like Parenthood and the short-lived Relativity, Katims and his writers have done a great job illustrating what happens when the lives of the devout get tangled up with non-believers, or with people who belong to another religion altogether. So when you put Katims on a show where religion — specifically, a religious cult — is the chief subject, and give him a cast with Aaron Paul, Michelle Monaghan, and Hugh Dancy at the center, you should have something pretty special, right? Unfortunately, The Path — created...

Hulu’s The Path is a mysterious project that we still don’t really know much about. What we do know is that it's a cult drama that focuses on “a family at the center of a controversial faith-based movement struggling with relationships, marriage, and power.”

The series has a solid cast that includes Aaron Paul and Michelle Monaghan who play the husband and wife in the story, Eddie and Sarah Lane. The series also stars Hugh Dancy as one of the leaders of the movement.

Thanks to THR, we have a new promo teaser for you to watch that offers footage from the series along with an interview with Paul in which he talks about his character, saying:

"He had an eye-opening moment where he realizes he just doesn't buy anything that they're preaching anymore. He's afraid because he knows there's a possibility he could lose his entire family.

If we really can't have another season of Hugh Dancy playing Will Graham on Hannibal, I suppose getting Hugh Dancy to play a mysterious cult leader in Hulu's upcoming series The Path is a fair compromise. The Path follows Eddie (Aaron Paul) and Sarah Lane (Michelle Monaghan), a married couple whose family is involved in a cult-like movement known as Meyerism. While Sarah was born... Read More...

Aaron Paul's latest TV project is as Eddie Lane, a man suffering a crisis of faith who converted to Meyerism in The Path on Hulu. The rest of the cast includes Michelle Monaghan as his wife, Sarah Lane, Kyle Allen as his son Hawk, Rockmond Dunbar as Detective Abe Gaines, Sarah Jones as Alison Kemp, with Hannibal's Hugh Dancy as Cal Roberts, the unofficial leader of the Meyerist movement. It's like it was just yesterday that Aaron Paul was tooling around his Toyota Tercel after having fallen under the spell of another charismatic genius in the form of Walter White! Ah, good times. Here's a first look at The Path, which premieres March 30.

Max Ehrich (Under The Dome) has landed a recurring role in Hulu’s original drama series The Path from Jason Katims' True Jack Prods. Created by Jessica Goldberg, The Path examines Eddie (Aaron Paul) and Sarah Lane (Michelle Monaghan), a couple at the center of a controversial movement struggling with relationships, marriage and power, with each episode taking an in-depth look at what it means to choose between the life we live and the life we want. Ehrich will play…...

TechCrunch, which reports on the biggest stories in the technology and startup communities, is adding its name to the list of outlets with their own daily news program. The AOL-owned publication has launched the Crunch Report, a short, pithy, and easily digestible daily news program.

New episodes of Crunch Report will debut each weekday between 4 and 5 Pm Pst. The short, informative segments will feature a "fast, funny, and informative" take on the day's tech news, as noted in a press release. “Crunch Report features the most important news for our audience " said Sarah Lane, Executive Producer of Video at TechCrunch and host of Crunch Report, in the release. "It's a combination of what the editors at TechCrunch are covering and the news cycle overall. Sometimes the day's stories are obvious, sometimes as we're building the lineup, a theme will emerge.”

Here, courtesy of Crunch Report's dedicated home page, is a...

Lesson of the day: Don't treat your unpaid interns like some little herd of free laborers, okay studios? Not only is in poor form (pun intended), but it can also land you on the receiving end of a big, fat lawsuit with the quickness.

That's just what happened with a pair of so-called "interns" on 20th Century Fox's production of "Black Swan," Alexander Footman and Eric Glatt, who've now won their federal case against the studio for mishandling their term on the set.

As detailed by The Guardian, the duo complained they were made to do menial little odd-jobs on the set of the 2010 Oscar-nominated Darren Aronofsky picture rather than anything remotely educational in nature ... despite that being what the law requires of would-be employers offering internships.

Presumably peeved about their lack of paycheck after essentially being reduced to production piss-ants, the two took the big dog studio to court...

Two interns who worked on the Oscar-winning film Black Swan – which took $300m at the global box office – claim Fox Searchlight broke the law by not paying them

Two interns who worked on the Oscar-winning film Black Swan are to sue studio Fox Searchlight. They claim producers broke the law by failing to pay them for their work.

Alex Footman and Eric Glatt filed their suit on Wednesday at a federal court in Manhattan, asking for back pay and an injunction against the studio for improperly using unpaid interns on future projects. They claim the studio used them to complete menial work that did little to educate them in the minutae of film-making and which ought to have been undertaken by paid employees. They are particularly angry that they received no renumeration when Black Swan made more than $300m (£191m) at the global box office on the back of its awards season buzz,...