article_snippet: , California kids became household names living in front of the camera for seven months taped the year prior to the broadcast.
article_snippet: A record ten million weekly viewers were riveted watching the Loud family's lives falling apart.
article_snippet: Voyeuristic eyes were mesmerized by the watershed cinema verité event - viewing unscripted moments in the family's life that the press described as exhibitionist and as 'affluent zombies'.
article_snippet: Lance Loud, who died of complications from AIDS in 2001, stated: 'Television ate my family.'
article_snippet: LanceTelevision ate American Family,' said Lance. 