'To Catch a Predator' host Chris Hansen is played by Robert Pattinson in the new movie 'Primetime.' ...

The 2000s sting show is finding millions of new viewers online, and its brand of public humiliation looks awfully modern.

New film Primetime, with Robert Pattinson, centres on the divisive series which performed sting operations on would-be abusers. A ratings hit, it caused much debate about TV ethics.

Chris Hansen’s “To Catch a Predator,” which inspired the film “Primetime,” gave rise to online copycats who film their own self-styled sting operations.

To Catch a Predator became one of the most controversial television programs of the 2000s, turning journalist Chris Hansen into a household name with its televised sting operations. The Dateline NBC ...

To Catch a Predator became a ratings hit by confronting suspected child-sex offenders on camera. Its methods, police cooperation and the death of Bill Conradt sparked a lasting debate over journalism ...

Screenwriter Ajon Singh talks ‘Primetime,’ Chris Hansen's pushback and why America couldn't stop watching ‘To Catch a Predator.’ ...

I am Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC, and we are doing a story on adults meeting young teens online for sex.” The crowded Boston Common AMC theater shared a laugh, some with a strange mixture of ...

A dazzling, wolfish performance from Robert Pattinson anchors “Primetime,” Lance Oppenheim’s period piece about the rise and fall of a reality-TV host.