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.
 Loading ... |
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?
Wondering where the rest of your shows stand? Check our NBC cancel/renew page.
Image courtesy NBC.
Outsourced was in the top 3 funniest shows on TV. As D. Trump would say: ‘HUGE mistake.’
Omg…I am surprised..Why did they really Stop it.. WE LOVE IT>..Am a Sri Lankan..WE REALLY LOVED IT!! …Its a mixture of 2 cultures…and well balanced…So sad..:(
WILL THEY AT LEAST ISSUE IT ON “HOME VIDEO’ SO I CAN WATCH IT WHEN I WANT……( LIKE INSTEAD OF WATCHING THE **** THEY BROADCAST?)
We loved this show and was very disappointed to know it’s cancelled! It’s the only show we watched together as s family! Please bring it back on, we want it back!!!
Nooo! why..? You’re breaking my heart..=(
I’m from Ukraine..
My husband and I loved Outsourced and are surprised it was canceled. It was funny, intelligent and extremely well-written, not the usual formulaic garbage about adults that won’t grow up (Friends, How I Met Your Mother) or jokes so bad and expected that even the laugh track is forced.
Perhaps it failed bec. the major demographic was not smart enough for it, it wasn’t dumbed down enough.
There’s so much trash on the air and yet a treasure like this dies. I just don’t get it.
Grow up Carole its a funny show.
This is the problem, people like you who get offended for the dumbest crap.
Its just show. Who really cares? Its funny and entertaining, and I think would get better rating if they just let it run.
And whats the big deal that you have to move to India? I have been moving from place to place my entire life. Its much better then living in some suburb doing the same thing everyday.
I can’t imagine why anyone would watch Outsourced. But then maybe they haven’t tried to survive after having their job outsourced to India. My job was sent to India and I had to take a job making 1/4 as much, and then had to move out of the U.S. because I couldn’t afford to live there. So again, I can’t imagine why anyone would have watched it. I considered it an insult to those of us struggling to live after losing our jobs.
They cancelled this, and now The Event. Whoever made those decisions needs a sledgehammer to the face.
outsourced was awesome! sucks that it got canceled, bring it back with a band ppl! it will catch on!… it was the type of comedy that was missed and now its gone again.. 🙁
i liked outsource i hope you can fix it for season 2 im from philippines
I am not sure why but I thought that show was hilarious. Freaking awesome..was really looking forward to a new season…this blows.
I think Outsourced was reaally funny! They should not have cancelled it!
I LOVED OUTSOURCED! IT WAS THE FUNNIEST THING EVER AND I CANT BELIEVE THEY CANCELED IT!!!!!!!!!!! =(
I loved Oursourced and don’t understand how it go canceled. I loved that it was multicultural. Maybe the problem was that it was the wrong culture. I don’t watch a lot of TV but looked forward each week to this show and taped it if I was not going to be home. I wish they would give it another season.