“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...
“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...
- 4/26/2024
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
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.
- 3/27/2024
- TV Insider
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.
Spoilers Ahead
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,...
Spoilers Ahead
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,...
- 10/9/2023
- by Indrayudh Talukdar
- Film Fugitives
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,...
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,...
- 2/9/2023
- by CT Jones
- Rollingstone.com
For three years, To Catch A Predator was easily one of the wildest shows on TV. Hosted by Chris Hansen, the series highlighted the dangers of child predators on the internet by setting up elaborate sting operations in which predators believed they were talking to children. These adults would then agree to meet up with the minor where they would be confronted by Hansen and the camera crew. The show helped reveal the dark underbelly of the internet that many people tend to forget about. When the show was canceled in 2007, it came as a shock to many viewers
Whatever Happened To The Show “To Catch A Predator?”...
Whatever Happened To The Show “To Catch A Predator?”...
- 12/18/2021
- by Camille Moore
- TVovermind.com
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...
- 8/23/2021
- by Griffin Lotz
- Rollingstone.com
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.
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.
- 7/3/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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...
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...
- 9/9/2020
- by Nick Harley
- Den of Geek
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.
- 2/18/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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...
- 1/23/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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...
- 1/23/2019
- E! Online
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...
- 1/18/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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...
- 1/17/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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...
- 1/16/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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.
Also Read: Henry...
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.
Also Read: Henry...
- 9/29/2018
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
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,...
- 7/26/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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...
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...
- 3/19/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
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