What happens when you mix workplace comedies like Office Space and The Office and combine them with true-life stories like the ones depicted in The Wolf of Wall Street? You get Telemarketers, the new ...

In 2001, Sam Lipman-Stern was a teenage high school dropout working at Civic Development Group (CDG), a telemarketing company that operated out of central New Jersey. He’d developed a love for film ...

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Don’t be put off by the snoozy title: Telemarketers is one of the most exciting documentaries I’ve seen in years. Effortlessly dodging, and sometimes subtly parodying, every maudlin cliché of the true ...

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They spent years working the phones as telemarketers in the rowdy boiler room at New Brunswick’s Civic Development Group. Now Sam Lipman-Stern and Patrick J. Pespas are celebrating their critical ...

Our love affair with true crime links to their duality as triggering devices and a weird type of comfort. When the crime involves murder, we double-check that our doors are locked and maybe keep a ...

The filmmaker brothers executive-produce a three-part docuseries about whistleblowers in a telemarketing scam operation. “Telemarketers” focuses on two former telemarketing employees Pat Pespas and ...

Directors Adam Bhala Lough and Sam Lipman-Stern explain how their hilarious and shocking investigation came to be. Two decades ago, Civic Development Group put a lot of people to work who couldn’t ...

The HBO docuseries “Telemarketers” leaves audiences aghast – and maybe wondering whether there’s any end in sight to the jaw-dropping, industry-infesting graft portrayed by two guys who first met at a ...