“Telemarketers” may be summer TV’s oddest thrill ride. Co-director Sam Lipman-Stern begins the three-part docuseries, which launches August 13 on HBO, in retrospect. He’s looking back at the …
, in retrospect. He’s looking back at the footage he shot of his time working for telemarketing firm CDG two decades ago. Then a teenager, Lipman-Stern recorded everything: The aggressive sell he and his colleagues made over the phone to solicit donations for what the callers claimed were police charitable unions, as well as the freewheeling culture that permeated throughout the office.
I remember the first day, there were all these big, built dudes doing push-ups next to the bathroom; there were mug shots of some of the callers on the wall — just for entertainment, they would print them out. There were some teenagers like me, and then there were mostly ex-convicts. On your left, you’d have a murderer; on your right, you’d have literally the biggest heroin kingpin in New Jersey. People were selling drugs out of the office, there was prostitution in the office.
You show, in “Telemarketers,” how Sen. Richard Blumenthal has been fighting these practices throughout his career. And yet progress seems incremental at best. Why is it so hard to get action on this?Lipman-Stern:
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