As the opening credits roll in the new documentary “Predators,” a young girl speaks with a much older man on the phone. In a tiny, high-pitched voice, she says she’s nervous about talking to him; the ...
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 ...
When NBC’s To Catch a Predator premiered in the mid-2000s, it became a cultural sensation — drawing huge audiences as host Chris Hansen confronted men accused of soliciting minors, then watched police ...
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 ...
To Catch a Predator ran for three years, and its unique selling point seemed to be that it was, as Jimmy Kimmel once jokingly referred to it, “Punk’d for pedophiles.” The series touted its noble ...
Warning: The following post contains discussions of suicide. From 2004 to 2007, To Catch a Predator aired on NBC as part of a Dateline program. The series featured hidden cameras capturing adult men ...
You’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at the most interesting moments in the cultural Zeitgeist. In David Osit’s new documentary, “Predators,” the director includes a short clip ...
“My life may be crappy, but at least I’m not on TV.” That’s one explanation for the mass appeal of “To Catch a Predator” put forth by a subject in “Predators,” a new documentary about the mid-aughts ...
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ has set a premiere date of Monday, December 8 for Predators, David Osit’s award-winning documentary about the problematic legacy of Dateline NBC’s To Catch a Predator. Osit’s ...