00:00About this show, they're talking about investigation and reportage, but upon my opinion, we're nearest in a kind of trash
00:09TV. What about you?
00:11Well, I find it's a really good question. That's sort of why I wanted to make this film, in a
00:16way.
00:16I would say it started off as an extremely, a form of enterprise journalism, a form of hard-hitting journalism
00:23with Chris Hansen attempting to follow in the lineage of Mike Wallace.
00:27But at some point, it became something else, and Chris Hansen had this mythological ability to be this magnetic figure.
00:39I'm Chris Hansen.
00:40Let's take that predator.
00:42From the Dateline NBC program.
00:46And you're going to enter into the television story.
00:50Something so fascinating and theatrical about this program, and the fact that it was being run on a news, inside
00:58the form of a news program on Dateline NBC, was fascinating to me.
01:02So the question that I wanted to explore in making this movie is, what happens when you mix, when you
01:09mix this reportage of a very hard-hitting, you know, serious subject with a very light form of entertainment?
01:18And what does it do to everyone inside the apparatus who is making that show?
