The original three-part documentary series TELEMARKETERS, exploring and exposing the American telemarketing industry, is the most-watched HBO documentary series (non-sports) in over two years, with 1.9 million average viewers per-episode.

Telemarketers (prod. Adam Bhala Lough & Sam Lipman-Stern).

HBO's docuseries chronicling the multibillion dollar industry of scamming citizens over the phone under the guise of fundraising money for charities illuminates viewers on many aspects of telemarketing across several years from the inside. Lipman-Stern uses his own archival amateur home video footage from his time working in these dubious offices alongside criminals, convicts, and the generally unemployable. It's ultimately a grim outlook into American scammer culture thriving with little incentive for anyone to dismantle or regulate its successful Wild West business model.

HBO's 'Telemarketers' and the Dirtbag Folk Heroes We Need

HBO's earnest yet chaotic documentary about telemarketing scams and official complicity doesn't break any new journalistic ground, but tells a hell of a story through an unlikely lens.

“What the heck am I watching?” That was the first thing that came to mind when the first episode of the three-part HBO docu-series Telemarketers started playing. It was late, and I was looking for something mindless to kill an hour before bed. The description said it was about “two unlikely office buddies, who stumble upon the truth behind the work they’ve been doing at a seedy call center,” so I…

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New docuseries Telemarketers lays bare charity telemarketing scammers

High-school dropout Sam Lipman-Stern and salesman Pat Pespas discovered the dodgy New Jersey call center they worked for was scamming donors out of cash

They spent two decades uncovering the truth of the billion-dollar industry

An explosive new HBO original documentary is set to expose the dark side of charity telemarketers thanks to two undercover employees who brought down the organization they worked for from the inside

Pennsylvania police say Pat Pespas not seen by family since last week