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'To Catch a Predator' Casts a Long Shadow Through Our Culture and Politics

"Predators," the new documentary about the TV news program "To Catch a Predator," comes across as painfully, almost uncomfortably conflicted in the view of its subject. Yet those NBC specials that ...
Detroit Free Press

Documentary explores the rise and fall of the controversial series 'To Catch a Predator'

"Predators," which had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, will be shown at the Birmingham 8 Powered by Emagine. The documentary focuses on "To Catch a Predator," which ran from ...
GQ

What Does Catching a ‘Predator’ on TV Really Accomplish?

In 2007, NBC camera crews, police, and eventually a SWAT team surrounded the house of a 53-year-old Texas state prosecutor. The prosecutor had been chatting with someone he thought was a 13-year-old ...
Deadline.com

Paramount+ To Begin Streaming Oscar Contender ‘Predators’ Next Month; Documentary Explores Troubling Legacy Of Dateline’s ‘To Catch A Predator’

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 ...
Variety

How Hours of Unedited ‘To Catch a Predator’ Footage Shaped ‘Predators,’ a Doc That Connects Chris Hansen to America’s True Crime Addiction

“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 ...