To Catch a Predator

American reality television series focusing on exposing pedophiles through sting operations
TVSeries television_series Q2121677

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7 properties
Country of origin
United States[5]
End time
December 28, 2007[7]
Original broadcaster
NBC[4]
Presenter
Chris Hansen[3]
Start time
November 11, 2004[6]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 9
Fernsehserien.de ID
to-catch-a-predator
Freebase ID
/m/0d4fbj
IMDb ID
tt3694654
Kinobox film ID
670096
RatingGraph TV show ID
to-catch-a-predator-ratings-52259
TMDB TV series ID
15095
TV Maze series ID
20726
TheTVDB series ID
145281
ČSFD film ID
524774

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Summary

To Catch a Predator is a television series[1].

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high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.

served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Cast member Robert Pattinson high0.9419 independent sources

evidence “Pattinson has been having an exceptional year on screen – and that continues with his dizzying performance in this dark media satire about 2000s US reality TV show To Catch a Predator.” bbc.com · read source

Cast member Chris Hansen high0.9316 independent sources

evidence “Chris Hansen, best known as the host of Dateline NBC’s To Catch a Predator series, has purchased advertisements for his streaming platform that will play before every single screening of A24’s upcoming film adaptation of his rise to fame, Primetime.” ign.com · read source

Cast member Pattinson emerging0.889 independent sources

evidence “Pattinson has been having an exceptional year on screen – and that continues with his dizzying performance in this dark media satire about 2000s US reality TV show To Catch a Predator.” bbc.com · read source

Cast member Dakota Johnson emerging0.868 independent sources

evidence “Yet, in a lineup featuring Pattinson as “To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen, Dakota Johnson as Marilyn Monroe, Guy Pearce as Rupert Murdoch and Clooney as, well, himself (he’s getting a lifetime achievement award, as is Ellen Burstyn), it’s possible that much of the attention will be on a man who (probably) won’t be there:” wral.com · read source

Director Lance Oppenheim emerging0.857 independent sources

evidence “Director Lance Oppenheim attempts to crawl into the psyche of Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson), star of the real-life true crime series To Catch a Predator, but Primetime never gets below the surface of the show’s sordid motivations.” bfi.org.uk · read source

Cast member Hansen emerging0.836 independent sources

evidence “Among the narrative films, “To Catch a Predator" host Hansen may be concerned about his portrayal in “Primetime,” which is based on the 2007 Esquire article, “Tonight on Dateline, This Man Will Die." He was not involved in the making of the film, which was written by Ajon Singh and directed by Lance Oppenheim.” nbcphiladelphia.com · read source

Publisher A24 emerging0.764 independent sources

evidence “The A24 crime thriller revisits the 2006 launch of To Catch a Predator, when Hansen's confrontations with suspected predators became a television sensation.” screenrant.com · read source

Performer Robert Pattinson emerging0.703 independent sources

evidence “Pattinson has been having an exceptional year on screen – and that continues with his dizzying performance in this dark media satire about 2000s US reality TV show To Catch a Predator.” bbc.com · read source

Publication date 2006 emerging0.703 independent sources

evidence “the actor will portray Chris Hansen in 2006, the year To Catch a Predator graduated from a niche Dateline NBC segment into a pop-culture phenomenon and national sensation.” wmagazine.com · read source

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  1. 6w ago · MsMorale · 2026-09-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    TheTVDB series ID → 145281
    TV Maze series ID → 20726
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  2. 10w ago · Shei98 · 2026-08-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country of origin → —
    Presenter → Chris Hansen
    Start time → +2004-11-11T00:00:00Z
    Genre → documentary television program
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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