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Sanaa Lathan is executive producing and starring in a new drama about notorious TV psychic Miss Cleo.
The Best Man: The Final Chapters The star, Sanaa Lathan, will play Miss Cleo and say the famous line 'Call me now' in the upcoming 'dark comedy drama'. Deadline reports only.
Per Deadline:
Legendary Entertainment is developing the project, Miss Cleo, with Lathan as executive producer. Former Sony Pictures Television head of drama Sharon Hall, who executive produced The Expanse, is also executive producing the project through Mom de Guerre Productions.
Miss Cleo was otherwise known as Youree Dell Harris, an actress who portrayed the representative of a pay-per-call-minute psychic service called Psychic Readers Networks in a series of commercials between 1997 and 2003. Her tagline was “Call me now !”
In 2002, the Federal Trade Commission charged the company's owners with deceptive advertising, billing and collection practices. Harris was not charged, but the people behind it agreed to settle by writing off $500 million in debts owed to his victims and paying a $5 million fine.
The website reports that the series will follow Miss Cleo's rise and subsequent fall following the government's $500 million court case.
The series is currently being shopped to streamers and networks. While Harris crashed and burned as the psychic, she lent her famous voice to the popular video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Harris died in 2016. Her life was chronicled in the 2022 documentary Max Call me Miss Cleo.
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