When “To Catch a Predator” aired as part of “Dateline NBC” from 2004 to 2007, it drew the kind of praise that rarely met early reality TV. It wasn’t just reality TV, it was a social good, a way of ...

Documentary filmmaker David Osit was going down an internet rabbit hole in the late 2010s when he stumbled upon a primitive, yet quickly addictive, message board. Sporting the archaic look of a Web ...

A new documentary delving into the cultural phenomenon of NBC’s To Catch a Predator, which debuted in the early 2000s and featured host Chris Hansen, will follow the “rise and staggering fall of the ...

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Have you seen the new Predator: Badlands trailer? If you have — and you’re a fan of the Alien franchise — you might have noticed more than a few nods to the famous sci-fi horror franchise. But fans ...

Director David Osit talks about how Chris Hansen's NBC series has spawned a universe of copycats and how it contributed to creating a less empathetic world. When “To Catch a Predator” aired as part of ...