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 ...
Like many Americans in the early aughts, documentary filmmaker David Osit watched “To Catch a Predator,” a hidden camera reality TV show that followed journalist Chris Hansen working in coordination ...
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 ...
"I didn't realize at the time how taxing it was emotionally and mentally," Casey Mauro says in the new documentary "Predators." A performer who pretended to be a child on To Catch a Predator is ...
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 ...
Casey Mauro acted as a decoy in numerous child molester stings on To Catch a Predator as a young adult in the 2000s. She says that she wanted to warn the show's unwitting subjects to "Go home" on ...