DATELINE TO CATCH A PREDATOR SERIES
The campaign was so successful, he eventually took over as host of the daily syndicated series Crime Watch Daily, of which Hansen vs. On April 2015, Hansen launched a Kickstarter campaign to promote his successor to the original series, Hansen vs. If so, it will likely be without Hansen, who had his own embarrassing scandal which resulted in him leaving NBC. According to a Facebook comment in 2009, it might return someday. Whether because of the legal controversies, the increased popularity making it harder note the final sting only caught seven men, where earlier ones had ensnared dozens to lure men to the houses, or because the "demographics" of the alleged predators had declined, note earlier stings caught doctors, teachers, programmers, a rabbi, etc., but later ones nabbed unemployed or menial laborers no new "TCAP" segments were produced after 2007. Dateline and Hansen ultimately achieved Memetic Mutation, with parodies appearing on different shows like South Park, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Arrested Development, The Boondocks, Robot Chicken, Squidbillies, etc. Controversy was sparked, mostly by accusations of entrapment by lawyers for the accused predators and the high profile suicide of a local district attorney caught in the sting (but who did not appear on the show, having discovered prior to his death that he had been exposed). This led to a whole series of Dateline "To Catch A Predator" specials and a spin-off, "To Catch A Predator: The Raw Tapes", which shows longer versions of the confrontations between Hansen and the predators. This resulted in the firing of a couple Dateline producers and led to Michele Gillen (the correspondent involved in the segment) getting transferred to NBC's affiliate in Miami, where she became an anchor of the station's evening newscasts.ĭateline returned to the spotlight in 2004, when a segment Hansen did with the cyber-vigilante group Perverted Justice catching men attempting to arrange sexual encounters with underage teenagers, "To Catch A Predator," garnered a huge amount of publicity. Today, archived (rerun) Dateline crime stories are used for this same purpose on MSNBC, Investigation Discovery, and TLC during dead periods.ĭateline drew infamy with its constant stream of fluff stories, Media Scaremongering stories, and screw-ups - most notably, an early 1992 segment got into hot water when it falsely claimed that 1973-1987 GM pickup trucks had leaky and explosive gas tanks (when in reality, the only reason they exploded for the cameras was the remote controlled explosives the NBC crew put there). The series existed mainly to fill holes in NBC's programming schedule during the bulk of the 1990s, it was on more nights than not. It was hosted by Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips, the latter of whom would become the face of the main Dateline. The program was conceived in 1992 mainly as a cheap schedule filler and about the 73rd attempt to unseat 60 Minutes. It started airing in 1992 on NBC and has never entirely gone away.
Dateline, also known as Dateline NBC, is a Prime Time News show and one of the largest, most popular, and most infamous news programs ever.
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