David Osit examines the strange success of the series To Catch a Predator and tries to understand why it still leaves one uneasy.

“To Catch a Predator” aired on NBC from 2004 to 2007 ... One YouTuber named Skeeter Jean makes professional-looking “To Catch”-like episodes and has accumulated 1.9 million subscribers.

The doc also pays close attention to a tipping-point moment that occurred in Murphy, Texas, in 2006, when one of the fake-boys was enticing a predator to come to their house. He promised he would ...

Over its multi-year run as part of NBC’s Dateline franchise, To Catch a Predator wasn’t impervious to criticism ... The second segment focuses on imitators, including Skeeter Jean, a YouTube-based ...

Jimmy Kimmel aptly summed up Dateline NBC’s To Catch a Predator as “Punk’d for Pedophiles,” and during its 2004-2007 run, it became a national phenomenon. A candid-camera sting operation designed to ...

Editor's note: The below review contains content that may be triggering for some readers, including references to pedophilia and sexual predation. One of the worst casualties of the streaming era ...

“To Catch a Predator” may have gone off the air nearly 20 years ago, but Hansen is still at it. In 2020, he co-founded the true crime streaming service TruBlu and he still hosts shows that ...