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 ...

A new documentary hitting theaters next month will examine America’s fascination with watching child sex predators exposed on national television and the cultural impact of shows like NBC’s To Catch a ...

Two decades on, it's easy to forget how much cultural oxygen "To Catch a Predator" consumed during its brief but indelible 20-episode run on NBC. Pitched as a public service, the "Dateline" offshoot ...

“Predators,” MTV Documentary Films’ “To Catch a Predator” documentary has officially made its way to select theaters after its Sundance Film Festival debut. The film, which is directed, produced, ...

This probing, troubling documentary looks at the sociological implications of the series “To Catch a Predator.” By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...