Dan Schrack

In the mid-aughts, Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator drew millions of weekly viewers to watch sting operations: men planning to meet minors for sex would instead be confronted by polished host Chris Hansen, then by the police — all on hidden camera.

An American news exposé series featuring hidden camera investigations by Dateline NBC, devoted to impersonating underage minors and detaining adult men who contacted them over the Internet for sexual liaisons. The men are lured to a sting house to meet with a decoy under the pretence of sexual contact and then confronted by Chris Hansen.