Hoping to repeat the success it had when it added celebrities to “The Apprentice,” NBC announced today that it was taking the same approach to its “To Catch a Predator” series and has added “Celebrity To Catch A Predator” to its just-announced fall lineup.

The new show, which was introduced today at the network’s upfronts, will feature host Chris Hansen ambushing famous people as they attempt to meet minors they met on the Internet.

In the pilot episode of “Celebrity To Catch A Predator,” Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski was lured to a home under the guise of meeting whom he thought was a 13 year-old girl he had been flirting with on the Internet. Once inside the home, Polanski was confronted by Chris Hansen who reread Polanski’s racy online transcripts with the person poising as a minor. The pilot episode tested through the roof, which convinced NBC to add the series to its fall lineup.

“Adding celebrities to ‘The Apprentice’ squeezed a few more years out of a dying franchise, and we expect the same results with ‘Celebrity To Catch a Predator,’ ” said a spokesperson from NBC.

But critics immediately attacked NBC for their fall line-up: “We thought NBC had hit rock bottom when it renewed ‘Whitney,’ but this is an all-time low,” a critic told Hollywood & Swine.

“There have always been celebrities who have had a thing for underage females, from Errol Flynn to R. Kelly, to even that creepy guy from ‘The Green Mile’ who married a 16- year-old. Now we finally get to entrap them on camera,” said an excited Chris Hansen.