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Everything You Need to Know About the Late Night Infomercial Psychic, “Miss Cleo,” Biopic · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody who channels surfed late night TV in the nineties
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  Speaker 2: is intimately familiar with the catchphrase call me now for
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  Speaker 2: your free reading, delivered by the one eight hundred Psychic
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  Speaker 2: Miss Cleo in ads for the Psychic Reader's Network. The
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  Speaker 2: company behind it ended up being charged by the FTC
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  Speaker 2: with multiple crimes including deceptive advertising, billing and collection practices,
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  Speaker 2: and dragged Miss Cleo into the mud along the way.
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  Speaker 2: And now her Stranger than Fiction life is being brought
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  Speaker 2: to the small screen with the new dark dramedies series,
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  Speaker 2: according to Deadline, simply called Miss Cleo, starring Sanah Lathan,
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  Speaker 2: who was recently nominated for an Emmy for her work
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  Speaker 2: on Succession. Producers are currently negotiating with streamers and networks
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  Speaker 2: to determine where it lands.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.