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Dateline is expanding and premiering episodes in Spanish on Telemundo on Saturday, February 15 at 7 p.m. Et.

Noticias Telemundo anchor Julio Vaqueiro is set to host the special encores of Dateline, which is the first time the newsmagazine has their episodes fully translated into another language.

“We are very excited about this new collaboration with our colleagues at NBC News and look forward to bringing Dateline’s award-winning storytelling and in-depth investigations to our Spanish-language audience,” Vaqueiro said.

The first Dateline episode on Telemundo is titled “Un Largo Camino,” or A Long Road in English. The episode follows a determined investigator and prosecutor in Orange County who worked to solve a 20-year-old murder case, even though those involved in the gruesome crime thought they had buried the secrets of the past.

“As we strive to make Dateline available across as many platforms as possible via TV, syndication, podcasts and our...

In a major podcast and digital media deal that shakes up the landscape, Fox Corp. has acquired Red Seat Ventures.

Res Seat Ventures produces audio and video podcasts and other programming with talent that includes a slew of former Fox and cable news stars.

Among Red Seat’s clients are Megyn Kelly, whose show streams on YouTube and runs on SiriusXM, and Tucker Carlson, who was ousted by Fox two years ago. Another former Fox host, Bill O’Reilly, is also a client, as is Dr. Phil. Former CNN host Piers Morgan and former Hln host Nancy Grace are also clients of Red Seat.

Founded by Chris Balfe and his brother Kevin Balfe, Red Seat provides production, distribution, branding and sales services for creators, with a particular emphasis on right-leaning politics and true crime (former To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen is also a client, and the company produces the...

The 22nd edition of the True/False Film Fest, kicking off Feb. 27, will feature a lineup of 30 feature documentaries and 24 short docs. The Columbia, Missouri-based four-day doc film festival will showcase eight Sundance 2025 films, including U.S. documentary prize winner “Seeds,” “Predators,” and “The Dating Game.”

The fest’s lineup includes seven world premieres, one international premiere, and three North American premieres. Fourteen of the True/False feature docus were made by first-time feature directors.

“This year’s films run the gamut when it comes to form, tone, and perspective, but the thing that unites them is their unwavering commitments to their artistic visions,” said True/False artistic director Chloé Trayner. “The lineup is a kaleidoscope of reflections on our modern world, embracing past, present, and future in beautiful, devastating, and hopeful ways. We can’t wait to share these films with our audience soon.”

Since launching in 2004, True/False...

It might resemble the process of setting up for any documentary: as “Predators” begins, camera crews assemble equipment, angles are established, and on-screen talent takes their place. This, however, is not a documentary; rather, these are shots from behind the scenes of “To Catch a Predator,” a recurring segment on the seminal news program Dateline NBC that became a cultural landmark for much of the mid-’00s and made a star out of journalist/host Chris Hansen.

Continue reading ‘Predators’ Review: A Not-So-Fondly Examination Of ‘To Catch a Predator’ [w sees Sundance] at The Playlist.

In his seminal 1975 book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Michel Foucault wrote, “Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.” Foucault certainly couldn’t have predicted the existence or meteoric rise (and fall) of To Catch a Predator, the Dateline NBC spinoff series that blurred the line between news reportage, reality show, and vigilante justice, and aired from 2004 to 2007. But the notion that punishment in the public square would eventually re-emerge in televisual form, providing a new type of panoptic threat to dissuade potential criminals, is a natural extension of his ideas.

David Osit’s Predators moves beyond recounting the controversial show’s history. The documentary begins by interrogating the flawed, contradictory, but very human impulses that drove Chris Hansen, To Catch a Predator’s host and creative force. Hansen, first and foremost,...

Filmmaker David Osit gives viewers a lot to wrestle with in Predators, his documentary about the reality show To Catch a Predator, which captured the zeitgeist of the early 2000s. In the show, host Chris Hansen confronted adult men who had arrived to a location (following an online chat correspondence) with the alleged intention of engaging in sexual activity with a minor. The set-up was, in fact, a sting orchestrated by the show’s producers in collaboration with local law enforcement. It made for compelling television and was advertised like so, as well as a public good. Predators wrestles with the legacy of the program, the ethical questions it raised, and the copycat vigilantes it inspired. The show was cancelled not long after suspect Texas assistant district attorney Bill Conradt committed suicide as cameras and cops were descending on his home. A cascading level of criticism was soon drawn against the production,...

It’s all the same (only the names have changed): A man, and it’s always a man, starts chatting online with what he believes to be an underage boy or girl. The conversation either immediately or eventually turns explicitly sexual. He decides to take things one step further and arrange an in-person encounter. The man is greeted at the door by someone who appears to be a youngster, invited inside, and a minute or so after crossing that threshold, finds himself suddenly talking to another adult male in the room.

“Is it even possible for something designed as entertainment to be a public service?” Predators cinematographer-editor-director David Osit asks this question of ethnographer Mark de Rond about NBC TV show To Catch a Predator and its successors, but it also applies to this project’s of-the-moment anxieties about nonfiction practice. Documentaries seem to have entered a phase of self-reflexive fretting about their own impact; I think one reason No Other Land has become so popular is because it explicitly states this, having its subjects worry about their Facebook click rates and wonder out loud whether the film they’re making can possibly […]

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“Is it even possible for something designed as entertainment to be a public service?” Predators cinematographer-editor-director David Osit asks this question of ethnographer Mark de Rond about NBC TV show To Catch a Predator and its successors, but it also applies to this project’s of-the-moment anxieties about nonfiction practice. Documentaries seem to have entered a phase of self-reflexive fretting about their own impact; I think one reason No Other Land has become so popular is because it explicitly states this, having its subjects worry about their Facebook click rates and wonder out loud whether the film they’re making can possibly […]

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When “To Catch a Predator” aired as part of “Dateline NBC” from 2004 to 2007, it drew the kind of praise that rarely met early reality TV. It wasn’t just reality TV, it was a social good, a way of exposing men who would sexually prey on underage teenagers, a way of getting evidence to convict men who showed undeniable intent to commit statutory rape. This is the kind of show of which even Jon Stewart, famously critical of exploitative TV, said, “I approve” when welcoming the series’ host, Chris Hansen, on “The Daily Show.”

The show ended in part because of legal entanglements related to the death of one of the alleged predators it had caught in one of its stings. Almost 20 years later, it has spawned an entire universe of unauthorized spinoffs, some still involving Chris Hansen himself.

Now there’s a documentary about “To Catch a Predator” and its aftermath: “Predators,...

Like many Americans in the early aughts, documentary filmmaker David Osit watched “To Catch a Predator,” a hidden camera reality TV show that followed journalist Chris Hansen working in coordination with law enforcement while conducting sting operations that exposed adult men who were hoping to have sex with minors.

“I found it fascinating and weird and strangely addictive,” he admits. “In many ways, it was sort of the template for modern true crime TV.”

But he never really gave the NBC series much thought until years later when he came across an article about Bill Conradt, a Texas assistant district attorney who committed suicide in 2007 after police served him with a warrant stemming from one of Hansen’s online investigations into potential pedophiles. Hansen and his crew were on the scene when Conradt shot himself. The episode eventually aired, but NBC’s journalism was criticized for breaching ethical lines and Conradt’s family sued.

If “To Catch a Predator” taught us anything, it was about the hollow authority asserted by a man in a well-cut suit. Between 2004 and 2007, NBC’s pedophile-baiting “Dateline” spinoff captured the imagination of the American public, announcing itself as not just reality-based entertainment but a protective public service — largely on the strength of host Chris Hansen’s suave, smooth presence as he cornered and questioned potential sex offenders with the apparent clout of a cop or lawyer, as the cameras kept rolling. Never mind that he was a mere newsman, or that the show’s manipulations rendered most of its cases impossible to prosecute. “To Catch a Predator” delivered justice as the people preferred to see it: visibly, ruthlessly and on television. David Osit was among the many who were hooked; 20 years on, his measured, nuanced and finally gut-punching documentary “Predators” wonders why.

The premise for “To Catch a Predator” was so simple — naive,...

Over its multi-year run as part of NBC’s Dateline franchise, To Catch a Predator wasn’t impervious to criticism or lawsuits, but it was surely insulated.

Sure, you might say, every episode was a carefully orchestrated piece of entrapment in which the relationship between journalists and law enforcement became blurred in a way that the relationship between journalists and law enforcement should never become blurred.

“What, are you in favor of sexual predators?” fans of the show would then reply

It’s hard to have a nuanced conversation from there.

In his new Sundance-premiering documentary Predators, director David Osit takes advantage of the 17+ years since To Catch a Predator ended to attempt to have those conversations.

The result is a 96-minute film that some people will find disappoining, when what it’s actually about is disappointment, because the temptation when you sit down to watch Predators is to demand...

“Why don’t you have a seat over here.”

It’s perverse that a TV news program about child predators quickly developed its own catchphrase, as if silver-throated host Chris Hansen were just another incarnation of Steve Urkel, but such was the addictive mix of harrowing docudrama and lizard brain entertainment that defined the “Dateline NBC” spinoff “To Catch a Predator.”

On the air from 2004 to 2007, the show followed a simple formula: Members of a volunteer organization known as “Perverted-Justice” would find men online and lure them to a house with the explicit promise of having sex with a minor. When the marks arrived, they would be greeted by a young-looking decoy — only for Hansen to step out of the shadows a moment later, along with a camera crew ready to broadcast their shame to the world. After sputtering apologies and pleading for mercy while Hansen read aloud from the...

It’s time for the Sundance Film Festival, and once again I’ll be heading to Utah to bring readers of JoBlo loads of reviews of all the latest indie flicks coming soon to a theater (or streaming service) near you. Located in Park City, Utah (for now anyways), Sundance is always one of my favorite events of the year. Being a movie fan, I love nothing more than binging on movies in the same festival that gave birth to the directing careers of legends like Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Jordan Peele, Damien Chazelle, and so many more.

As has been the case for the last decade or so, the festival is jam-packed with horror flicks, as studios – in particular A24 – have had some major breakouts there, including The Babadook, The Guest, Hereditary, Talk to Me, and last year’s I Saw the TV Glow. So what are we psyched to see?...

In two days the Sundance Film Festival kicks off in Park City with a robust slate of nonfiction films (we leave it to others to cover the fiction slate!). Opening day/night alone features several world-premiere documentaries including the latest from two Oscar winners: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) and Mstyslav Chernov’s 2000 Meters to Andriivka.

On the latest edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, we welcome Sundance documentary programmers Basil Tsiokos and Sudeep Sharma to explore some of the most anticipated nonfiction films and episodics on the 2025 slate. Along with the Questlove and Chernov’s docs, they tell us about the mystery surrounding a late add to the festival – The Stringer, directed by Bao Nguyen. We say “mystery” because the film already is generating controversy before its debut, and the Sundance programmers aren’t even at liberty, at this point,...

To Catch a Predator only lasted for two seasons and 20 episodes and yet remains a piece of American pop culture, which may make some people wonder why the show was canceled at all. To Catch a Predator premiered on NBC as a part of the Dateline NBC programming lineup in November 2004. Hosted by Chris Hansen, To Catch a Predator was a reality series that followed sting operations conducted across the United States in conjunction with U.S. law enforcement, the watchdog group Perverted-Justice, and the Dateline news crew.

The stings specifically involved cases of adult men attempting to solicit sex from minors, through online chat rooms. The minors were actually adults posing as children, usually as 12 or 13-year-olds, who would set up a meeting with the men they 'met' online. Once the individuals arrived at the sting house, Chris Hansen stepped out to interrogate the men as to why they were there,...

Updated with details on documentaries from Elegance Bratton, Amy Berg, Jesse Moss, and Amanda McBaine, and Sally key art. Some of the biggest talents in documentary film will be unveiling new work at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, including Oscar winners Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Davis Guggenheim, and Mstyslav Chernov.

The marquee names in the nonfiction slate extend to the subjects of films – musical great Sly Stone examined in Questlove’s Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius); the late Selena Quintanilla’s story told in a film by Isabel Castro; Actress Marlee Matlin’s trailblazing career explored in Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, from director Shoshannah Stern; astronaut Sally Ride’s gravity-defying journey and personal life revealed in Sally, directed by Cristina Costantini.

No Sundance premiere documentary may attract more attention than Pee-wee as Himself, “A chronicle of the life of artist and performer Paul Reubens and his alter ego Pee-wee Herman.

Following rumors Dr. Oz could lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, “The Daily Show” host Desi Lydic had some choice words.

“It could be worse. At least Dr. Oz is an actual doctor. I’m impressed he didn’t pick Dr. Pepper,” Lydic said on Wednesday night.

Lydic also said that the only qualification for Donald Trump’s incoming cabinet seems to be “being on TV.” “His defense secretary is a guy from ‘Fox & Friends,’ his transportation secretary is a guy from Fox Business and his attorney general is a guy who I’m pretty sure was on ‘To Catch a Predator,'” Lydic said, making a jab at Matt Gaez.

The Comedy Central host then called out Dr. Oz for having what she deemed a “long history of medical quackery.” “I wonder how people got the idea he was a serious medical expert in the first place,...

Robert Pattinson is re-teaming with his “Tenet” director Christopher Nolan for the filmmaker’s closely guarded project at Universal Pictures, Variety has confirmed. Pattinson joins an impressive ensemble that already includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Lupita Nyong’o, Anne Hathaway and Zendaya.

Universal and Nolan’s follow-up to their Oscar-winning drama “Oppenheimer” is projecting a production start date sometime in the first half of 2025. Pattinson will be quite busy in the New Year. Warner Bros. is looking to film a sequel to his 2022 blockbuster “The Batman,” in which the actor would reprise his leading turn as the DC Comics superhero. Pattinson is also starring in A24’s “Primetime,” a thriller drawing inspiration from the reality show “To Catch a Predator” that will serve as the debut narrative feature of rising filmmaker Lance Oppenheim. That indie is planning to ramp up production early next year.

Additionally, Pattinson’s next feature, Bong Joon-Ho’s sci-fi comedy “Mickey 17,...

If fans of reality and police shows are wondering how to watch a series like To Catch a Predator, they may have to stick with unconventional means. Premiering in November 2004, To Catch a Predator only ran for a little over three years, a surprisingly short amount of time considering how ubiquitous the show is in pop culture. A part of the Dateline reality TV show apparatus, To Catch a Predator is a hidden camera series hosted by Chris Hansen as he confronts adult men who arrive at homes hoping to engage in sexual activities with supposed minors.

Adults posing as minors lure in unsuspecting older men by first contacting them via chatrooms, eventually leading to them being invited over to the house, which is secretly the site of a sting operation. There, the potential sexual predators are met by Hansen asking them some variation of the famous question, "Why don't you have a seat,...

“And there’s the internet. At this very moment your kids are on YouTube watching a cat on a toilet. Instead of watching that footage where it belongs: On the Fox network!”

Conan O’Brien said that as part of his “Trouble at NBC” song-and-dance number at the 2006 Emmys, which enumerated the many challenges facing NBC, even though the awards show was airing on NBC. For this writer’s money, that entire Emmys broadcast was the most successful of this young century. And all thanks due to O’Brien’s whipsmart but never truly cynical energy. It’s a formula he should replicate at the 2025 Oscars, where the Academy just announced this morning that O’Brien will host.

There are some incredible lessons to learn from that 2006 Emmys ceremony, which was O’Brien’s second gig for TV’s biggest night. The most important one is: He’s a TV fan,...

Robert Pattinson is now set to produce an upcoming A24 crime movie. Pattinson got his big break when he played the male lead Edward Cullen in the Twilight series. Since then, Pattinson has become a major star both in the indie and mainstream scene, acting in wide-ranging projects including Good Time, Tenet, and The Batman. Pattinson's past couple of years have been slow, but he did appear in a voice acting role in the English language dub of The Boy and the Heron last year. In early 2025, Pattinson will star in Bong Joon-ho's Mickey17.

As per Deadline, Pattinson has now set his next project with A24. The movie in question is titled Primetime, and will feature Pattinson as a producer. Primetime will be directed by documentarian Lance Oppenheim. A vague initial synopsis for the film says that it will "follow a journalist who takes on an underworld of crime and changes television forever.

Robert Pattinson is working behind-the-scenes on a new project!

The 38-year-old actor is helping producing a new movie from documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim, which is set up at A24, according to Deadline.

Keep reading to find out more…

Currently titled Primetime, the movie is said to “follow a journalist who takes on an underworld of crime and changes television forever,” which is seemingly taking inspo from crime reporting television shows like Dateline and To Catch a Predator.

While some sources have said Robert would star in the movie, he does not have a deal to star in the feature at this time.

Lance is set to direct, with a script by Ajon Singh – they will both executive produce as well.

If you missed it, Robert is set to star in another movie, titled The Drama, and plot details, plus a new co-star, were just revealed last week – Get the scoop!

The rise of Lance Oppenheim continues unabated: within 12 months of Spermworld and Ren Faire comes the news he’ll be directing Primetime, a feature backed by A24 and Robert Pattinson’s Icki Eneo Arlo. Per sources (including some from which this writer’s heard directly), Ajon Singh’s script takes direct inspiration from NBC’s To Catch a Predator and its notorious host Chris Hansen; Deadline‘s article plays into that, noting rumors the film concerns “a journalist who takes on an underworld of crime and changes television forever.” Whether Pattinson also stars remains uncertain.

Meanwhile, Deadline also notes Colman Domingo will make his directorial debut with Euphoria co-star Sydney Sweeney playing none other than Kim Novak. The project, Scandalous, is scripted by Matthew Fantaci and concerns the fire-setting affair between Novak and Sammy Davis Jr. (David Jonsson). Cameras roll once the HBO series finishes shooting its third season.

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Lance Oppenheim, who recently directed the buzzy HBO documentary series “Ren Faire,” is working with A24 and Robert Pattinson to develop his first narrative feature film.

A24 is set to finance and produce “Primetime,” which follows a journalist who takes on an underworld of crime and ends up changing television forever. Additional details are under wraps but the project is said to be inspired by “To Catch a Predator,” the 2000s-era reality show in which host Chris Hansen aimed to expose alleged sexual predators. Hansen would use hidden cameras while orchestrating sting operations that lured culprits to homes under the pretense of having sex with a minor, only to have the suspect arrested.

Oppenheim, whose documentary credits also include “Some Kind of Heaven,” a look at the world’s largest retirement community, and “Spermworld,” following the story of sperm donors, recipients, and all that connects them, is directing from a screenplay by Ajon Singh.

Ren Faire director Lance Oppenheim is lining up his first scripted feature film, teaming up with producer Robert Pattinson and A24 for Primetime.

The project, which has a script by Ajon Singh, is said to center on a journalist who takes on the underbelly of crime in a unique way and changes television forever. At this stage, Pattinson does not have a deal to star, only produce.

Sources say that the film draws inspiration from To Catch a Predator, the popular and zeitgeist-buzzing 2000s reality TV show in which host Chris Hansen partook in sting operations luring adult men to homes under the pretense of sexual encounters with minors. A24 is not confirming any connection to the show.

Oppenheim will direct and exec produce with screenwriter Singh.

Sources say A24 is moving swiftly and could be in production in the early part of next year.

Pattinson produces via his Icki...

Exclusive: Veteran documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim (Ren Faire) is pivoting to fiction with his next project, Primetime, which will be financed and produced by A24, with Robert Pattinson among the producers.

While not much is known about the film’s genre or plot, it’s said to follow a journalist who takes on an underworld of crime and changes television forever. We’ve heard from multiple sources that the project takes inspiration from To Catch a Predator, the NBC program put on as part of Dateline, as well as its host Chris Hansen, though the studio wouldn’t confirm. Sources also had Pattinson attached to star, though others clarified that there’s no deal in that respect for the moment. Stay tuned.

Oppenheim will direct from a script by Ajon Singh. Pattinson produces through his production banner Icki Eneo Arlo alongside Brighton McCloskey, Range’s Brian Kavanaugh Jones and Fred Berger,...

“Having worked with them on ‘Uncut Gems,’ I was excited about anything that they were doing,” says “The Curse” cinematographer Maceo Bishop when asked about executive producers Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie approaching him for the Showtime drama series. “And then they said, ‘We’re doing this with Nathan Fielder,’ and I didn’t know Nathan’s work that well. I’d heard his name before, so I did some research and I was like, ‘This is a really interesting combination of aesthetics and ideas coming together.’ The conversation started and almost right away, Benny said ‘To Catch a Predator’ and ‘Candid Camera’ were two of the references for us.” Watch the exclusive video interview above.

“The Curse” stars Oscar winner Emma Stone and Emmy nominee Nathan Fielder as a newlywed couple struggling to make their vision for eco-living a reality in a small New Mexico town.

One of Bishop...

Chris Hansen, who hosted To Catch a Predator from 2004 to 2007, said he’d heard whispers years ago about the alleged exploitation and child sexual abuse happening behind the scenes at Nickelodeon. Hansen’s comments come amid the Investigation Discovery docuseries Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, which documents children’s television shows from the late 1990s and early 2000s, with former child stars speaking out about their alleged experiences of abuse, sexism, and racism. In the doc, former child actors have made claims of sexual abuse against assistant Jason Handy, dialogue coach Brian Peck, and studio freelancer Ezel Channel, as well as abusive, toxic, and misogynistic behavior of producer Dan Schneider. Speaking to Newsweek, Hansen recalled a 2006 episode of To Catch a Predator, the series which followed adult men arriving at a sting house to have sex with a minor and typically being arrested as a result.

The second episode of the 22nd season of Family Guy premiered tonight on Hulu, and you should definitely check this one out. After a long time, we find two plots running simultaneously, each carrying enough content to keep you hooked. In this episode, Family Guy makes fun of the podcasters and true crime documenters while also reminding us how much of an intolerable creature Brian really is. Here’s a detailed recap of the latest Fg episode for you.

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Why Does The Brewery Shut Down?

In a conference room meeting, Peter learns that their workplace, the Pawtucket Brewery, will be closed for the following two months because of an ongoing renovation. Apparently, some eccentric investor had really gotten into the idea of making the workplace ‘hip,’ so there’d be a lot of exciting additions like a pinball machine, a nursing area, and many more. However, during these two months,...

Disgraced former YouTube star Onision has been accused of using his popular YouTube channel to “recruit, solicit, and groom” underaged children into having sex with him, according to a civil lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday.

Wednesday’s case is the first known legal action to be taken against the YouTuber following several allegations of abuse and grooming in 2019. Onision, 37, also known as Greg or James Jackson, did not reply to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment. But he has consistently denied claims of abuse and grooming. According to plaintiff Regina Alonso,...

The Juggalos were finally able to gather once more as Insane Clown Posse’s flagship festival, Gathering of the Juggalos, returned in 2021 after taking last year off due to the coronavirus pandemic. Dedicated fans descended on Thornville, Ohio’s Legend Valley this past week, August 19th through 21st, for three days of madness and a lineup that boasted everyone from Icp, Danny Brown, 9 Dead, and Big Hoodoo, to Steve-o, Vanilla Ice, and To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen. Rolling Stone was on hand to document the Faygo-soaked scenes as...

Ex-tv host Chris Hansen was briefly arrested on Friday after a Michigan judge issued a warrant for not appearing in court on a sex-trafficking case.

Hansen surrendered to authorities on a bench warrant Friday and was briefly detained. The former host of NBC’s To Catch A Predator failed to show for a hearing at Shiawassee County jail in Corunna, Michigan on Thursday. Hansen has video evidence to present related to a sex-trafficking case stemming from an October police sting in which three men were arrested.

The court expected Hansen to present video against three men charged with trying to meet underage girls for sex, the Associated Press reported.

Hansen did provide an edited video, but one of the defendants requested all of the footage, which he contended may contain exculpatory information, AP reported.

Hansen’s lawyer claimed his client missed the court hearing because of confusion over a subpoena.

While Brooklyn Nine-Nine typically coasts on the charms of its ensemble cast and their silly and sweet camaraderie, the show arguably is at its best when the Nine-Nine has a common enemy to unite against. Between dim bulb Captain C.J. Stentley (Ken Marino), smug saboteur Commissioner John Kelly (Phil Reeves), and Holt’s long-time rival Madeline Wuntch (Kyra Sedgwick), there hasn’t been a shortage of antagonists during Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s seven season run. However, there’s one frequent persona non grata that seems to constantly get underneath the entire precinct’s skin. His name? Keith Pembroke, but you may know him better as The Vulture.

Played by Dean Winters, The Vulture made his introduction way back in the series’ fifth episode, aptly titled “The Vulture” and has appeared several times throughout the course of the show, even serving as the replacement captain of the Nine-Nine during Season 3. As...

Almost constantly beset by low self-esteem and a critical lack of decent single men her age living in Manhattan, Liz Lemon’s love life is a relatable story that’s always a great source of comedy throughout 30 Rock. It’s also a great excuse to feature some of the show’s best-ever guest stars.

On her quest to “have it all”, Liz encounters a wide variety of suitors and a mountain of incredibly awkward situations. From celebrities and millionaires to a guy so scummy that he actually appeared on To Catch a Predator while dating her, here’s our ranking of Liz’s love interests throughout all seven seasons of the show.

Chris Hansen is out on his ass ... with practically none of his belongings. Sources tell TMZ ... the former host of "To Catch a Predator" was escorted out of his Manhattan apartment February 6 by city marshals, but not before throwing a Hail Mary. We're told Hansen tried to be slick ... telling the marshals the attorneys worked out a deal. The marshals weren't buying it and called the landlord's legal muscle. Sure enough ... no deal was in place.

1:35 Pm Pt -- The store owners tell us Chris sent them a check on Monday for the full amount he owed them. And yes, this time they made sure the check cleared before informing prosecutors. Chris Hansen is off the hook for allegedly bouncing checks -- which got him arrested in Connecticut -- because prosecutors dropped the charges ... TMZ has learned. The former host of "To Catch a Predator" came up with the nearly...

Update: Chris Hansen's brief legal problem is over.  Just over a week since the former To Catch a Predator host was arrested for writing bad checks, his attorney Philip Russell confirmed to E! News that Hansen "made good" on the check and, while appearing briefly in court on Wednesday, the prosecutor withdrew the charges and the case is over.  ____________________________________ Chris Hansen has found himself in a legal situation. Stamford Police confirm the former host of To Catch a Predator was arrested Monday in Connecticut for writing bad checks. Police claim Chris failed to pay a local vendor nearly $13,000 for items he purchased in 2017. The...

Chris Hansen's larceny arrest is no shocker to the people who funded his "To Catch a Predator" reboot -- they say Hansen came up short with them long before Johnny Law caught him. The former host launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2015 to start a new show about himself catching predators. His goal was $75k and he offered tiered prizes to anyone who donated. Some of those prizes included the custom mugs and shirts Hansen...

Chris Hansen's appears to be having a rough time, at least financially -- he's getting booted from his home in Manhattan ... TMZ has learned. According to legal docs ... the former host of "To Catch a Predator" last paid rent in August 2018, but was $400 short, and stopped sending checks altogether after that. So, the owner of the pad went to court in October and filed paperwork to have Chris evicted. In the eviction docs, the...

Chris Hansen got the Chris Hansen treatment, sort of, when Connecticut cops confronted him and then busted him ... for bouncing checks. The former host of "To Catch a Predator" was arrested Monday in Stamford for larceny. Cops say he failed to pay a local vendor nearly $13,000 for stuff he'd purchased in 2017 ... and allegedly gave the guy the runaround with 2 bounced checks.  According to Stamford Pd, Chris bought 355 mugs, 288 t-shirts and 650 vinyl decals from a mom-and-pop...

Sexual assault may be a point of intense, eye-opening conversation in the country right now, but it’s also still the bread and butter of exploitative junk like “Nomis,” writer-director David Raymond’s debut feature starring Henry Cavill as a brooding Minnesota-by-way-of-the-uk cop on the hunt for a powerful, elusive, serial kidnapper-rapist-murderer.

Jittery and nonsensical, it juggles its influences — “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Seven,” television procedurals — with oily hands and a distracted focus.

Opening with a nervy nighttime chase through snowy woods in which a crying, barely-clad young woman is running from something hellish, and followed by a domestic exchange in which Cavill’s divorced dad lawman schools his online-addicted 13-year-old daughter in how to tell who might be a social-media-finessing creep (no friends in the photos), the movie primes us to believe “Nomis” might be an engaged thriller for our distressed but increasingly awakened times.

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Danielle Bregoli, aka Bhad Bhabie, is sending a clear message to anyone out there older and stalking the 15-year-old rapper in her new music video ... which is be careful or you might end up on the chopping block. Bregoli's "Trust Me" video featuring Ty Dolla $ign dropped Thursday and it plays out like an episode of "To Catch a Predator" meets "Dexter." The storyline is pretty insane ... Bhabie gets catfished by an older sexual predator,...

Today’s issue of New York magazine reveals that “deep-seated mistrust” between two supposed city law enforcement allies — the NYPD Special Victims Division and the office of District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. — may have helped Harvey Weinstein evade prosecution for sex crimes. In response the story, anti-sexual harassment collective Time’s Up is imploring New York governor Andrew Cuomo to launch an investigation into Vance and his staffers, via an open letter published on The Cut.

The article, “To Catch a Predator,” explains that Svd Commander Michael Osgood “believed that Vance and his office were actively working to discredit” model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, who filed a police report against Weinstein after he allegedly groped her in his Weinstein Company office in March 2015. Osgood initially oversaw Gutierrez’s case. After the Da’s office was notified of the complaint, Gutierrez was rebuked in the tabloids, and Osgood hid the victim in...