The little sitcom that caused a lot of controversy last summer has quietly ended its run. NBC has cancelled Outsourced after one season on the air.
Outsourced follows a US sales manager, Todd Dempsey (Ben Rappaport), who’s assigned to supervise his company’s call center in India. The sitcom also stars Anisha Nagarajan, Diedrich Bader, Parvesh Cheena, Pippa Black, Rebecca Hazelwood, Rizwan Manji, and Sacha Dhawan.
The NBC sitcom started out decently and it looked like NBC might have a keeper on its hands. Last September, Outsourced debuted to a 3.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 7.49 million viewers. In week two, the demo number fell 22% to a 2.8 rating and 5.85 million viewers but that was still pretty healthy by NBC standards.
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Unfortunately, over the course of the season, the ratings just kept dwindling downward. The ratings have gone as low as a 1.4 in the demo with just 2.97 million viewers. Those are horrible numbers for a major network, even NBC.
Outsourced’s season currently averages a 2.1 demo rating and 4.55 million viewers. For NBC, that’s not too bad but the average is only that high because of the early season ratings.
It’s certainly not a shocker than NBC has cancelled Outsourced after just one season. The 22nd and final episode, titled “Rajiv Ties the Bharat, part two,” aired last night.
What do you think? Are you disappointed that there won’t be a second season of Outsourced? Why do you think the TV show didn’t catch on?
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Please continue with this sitcom. It is one of the best ones.
I am very disappointed this show got cancelled, I would watch it sometimes on tv and after quite a while I felt the wish to watch it on the internet now. It probably would have turned into an all-time favorite for me if it had more seasons.
I have been waiting for season 2 this entire time until i was curious to check on the website when season 2 is likely to come. To my disappointment this is what am finding. It was a good show.
This was an excellent show; kind of reminiscent of Mind Your Language. Superb cast, brilliant humour and not one dud episode! I would hazard a guess that it suffered because – as has happened with many great shows – the idiots at the network positioned it badly in the schedule
I belive outsourced was probably one of the best seatcoms on TV. It taught me many cultural values of India and it was also funny at the same time. Hope NBC brings it back in the future
My coworkers (who were Indian) referred this show to me…we all got a kick out of it….sad to see it end..
This is a great show! I loved it then and just watched the full season again. The characters are amazing and the cultural differences are what makes it special. Please bring this back!!!!!
To call the show offensive is really stupid.
Sure, it did have some typical stereotypes but it was a good show overall.
Outsourced is a very funny series which brought alot of smiles to alot of viewers faces .Please make another season of it .I love watching it .I can spend an entire day watching
I liked this show when it first aired and flagged it on Hulu to watch again when I noticed it. Just watched the first three episodes and am reminded why I liked it. Characters are funny. Yes, they play off stereotypes, Indian AND American, but funny is funny in any culture. Gupta is the bumbling but good meaning character you see in a lot of shows, and he’s endearing. The lengths some of the call centers would go to imitate American accents was funny but a little eye opening too. It introduced the viewer to a new culture and topic… Read more »
The services providers probably received more money for that series, underhanded, because everyone knew that outsourced would be a hit.
Great show, just finished watching it again and am convinced that NBC did this show a great injustice by not letting it run at least another season. It was funny, fresh, and had lots of runway for 2nd season storylines. I miss Gupta!
It was such a great show too bad . I still watch the reruns . All there is now is garbage reality shows that are not even reality !! A bunch of sensitive morons !!! Outsource was and is reality !!! Bad move NBC!!!
Just found this show on Hulu and binge watched the entire season. Really disappointed there won’t be a season 2