Primetime

Primetime is screening at The Dome Cinema on Thursday 5 November, a crime thriller that takes its subject from the headlines to the big screen. It's a look at Chris Hansen, the host of To Catch a Predator, and the show that made him a household name.

If you've only ever seen the clips, the context helps. To Catch a Predator first aired in 2004, and by 2006, Hansen had become the face of the whole thing. The film follows him during that period, when he set out to make television history by confronting people who'd agreed to meet minors online. It's a crime thriller that stays close to the man at the centre of it all, rather than just the stings themselves.

It's a particular kind of television that's hard to forget — the waiting, the confrontation, the specific way Hansen handled the interviews. Seeing it on a cinema screen changes the experience, too; the tension of those encounters plays differently when you're watching them in the dark with a room full of people rather than on a small screen at home. It's a crime thriller in the truest sense, and one that takes a well-known piece of TV history and looks at it from the inside.

The screening runs from 16:45 to 19:30 at The Dome Cinema in Worthing, so it's a late-afternoon start that gets you out well before the evening really kicks in. If you've followed the story since the early days, it's a good chance to see it all brought together on the big screen.