‘In our deepest hearts we are voyeurs’: the paedophile-hunting show that inspired Robert Pattinson’s new film
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Experts and insiders explain how To Catch A Predator became the most controversial show on 2000s TV A man from Long Beach, California, is here to have sex with someone he believes is a 13-year-old girl. When the journalist Chris Hansen walks in, the man’s stomach drops.
He is caught, and it is the end of his life as he knew it. Hansen asks what his fate should be. “The electric chair? ” he asks. No, replies Hansen. “Dateline NBC. ” This is the opening scene of Primetime , a film directed by Lance Oppenheim, released in the US this week (a UK release follows on 30 October). It…
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