An American Family’s Pat Loud has died
Pat Loud, one of the stars of the groundbreaking 1973 documentary reality series An American Family, died Sunday at age 94.
PBS's 1973 show An American Family was the first reality TV show: a narrative, unscripted, documentary-style series that followed the Loud family, including Pat, Bill, and Lance, who was TV's first openly gay character.
An American Family: 2011 Attention Span Edition debuts tonight on PBS
Tonight, PBS will air a two-hour version of An American Family. The “Anniversary Edition” has been condensed from its 12-hour version by its original filmmakers, Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond, and debuts at 8 p.m. ET. If you haven’t yet seen the series that gave birth to reality television, which earlier this year was rebroadcast …
Two-hour version of An American Family, edited by original filmmakers, will air on PBS
An American Family has been turned into a fictional film for HBO and has been rebroadcast on a few PBS stations, but now viewers nationwide will be able to watch the 12-hour series compressed into a two-hour version called An American Famiy: Anniversary Edition that was edited by Alan and Susan Raymond, the people who …
Craig Gilbert calls HBO’s American Family film “fallacious”; Louds paid by HBO to stay quiet
HBO debuted its film about the creation of An American Family, but the series’ producer has called the film’s plot fiction–and as usual, reality is more interesting and complicated. While the performances in Cinema Verite were strong, and the actors looked surprisingly like their real-life counterparts, I was somewhat disappointed by the film, which was …
An American Family will finally be rebroadcast this weekend, following HBO’s scripted film
Besides captivating and shocking the viewing public, An American Family inspired The Real World almost 20 years later, and gave birth to what we now know of as reality TV.
HBO releases teaser trailer for Cinema Verite, the movie about An American Family
In April, HBO will debut Cinema Verite, a scripted film about the creation of the first unscripted, narrative documentary series: An American Family. It stars James Gandolfini as Craig Gilbert, the filmmaker who produced the series, and Tim Robbins and Diane Lane as Bill and Pat Loud. The network released a teaser trailer Tuesday, and …
James Gandolfini watches Real Housewives, and other insight from the cast of HBO’s An American Family movie
In a few months, HBO will once again fictionalize the creation of a famous work of nonfiction, although this time it’s the reality series that started it all: An American Family. The Sopranos’ James Gandolfini stars as Craig Gilbert, the producer who followed the Loud family for the 1973 PBS series, while Pat and Bill …
