Episode
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Debt Buyers
Overview
John Oliver Takes On Debt Buyers: Companies that purchase debt on the cheap will aggressively collect on it. 'Last Week Tonight’ took a hands-on approach to addressing this issue.
Details
- Series
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 2016-06-05
- Runtime
- 35 min
Episode context
Debt Buyers is Episode 14 in Season 3 of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. It aired on 2016-06-05. The runtime is 35 min.
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