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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Another failure of NBC to recognize a good show. I loved it. It is so frustrating they don’ t give bright new shows time to develop. I am so tired of this reality stuff. Give me good comedy anyway. Won’t anyone pick up this show…Please!
Such a shame … Great tv series!! I couldn’t stop laughing … That Gupta & Charlie guys.. Hilarious… Asha.. Uff so beautyful .. Todd, Rajiv, Manmeet and Majeri (hope I spell those names correctly) perfect caracters … Anyway I really hope the series continue at least in Latam!! …
Was browsing the internet to see when the next season starts, and very disappointed the show is cancelled. It had great humour and I did not find it offensive at all. There are so many lame sitcoms out there that are not worth my time and deserve to be cancelled.
Community is still on the air,but Outsourced is not. This is why NBC stinks and is now the worst network on TV.
So disappointed to hear that Outsourced has no season 2. It’s such a cruel thing to do, NBC!
Why ?? I love it! I´m from Brazil and now i´m addicted for Asha and the others and cannot end like this ;/ I very disappointed with NBC.
This was the funniest show on t.v. I couldn’t wait till thursday. This is not right.
what!!!….this is a great show!!!!…from Colombia
Are you kidding me?!! I LOVED this show it always had me cracking up!! Unbelievable only stupid shows stay on air and everytime there’s a good show that I like they take it off air. NBC you suck!
It’s almost like they planned from the very beginning to cancel the show – they didn’t give it the publicity it deserved. There are so many other crap shows out there that keep coming back. This was one good one, with so much potential, and so very funny. NBC SUCKS!
Outsourced was a geniunely funny show! Well written, acted out perfectly and had lovable characters! The dance scenes were HILARIOUS! I was watching Jab We Met with my wife and suddenly, it became a musical! BOLLYWOOD is the new thing! Bring OUTSOURCED back!
Nooo! I loved the series. I laughed and laughed. The show was priceless. I could´t wait until the show fired up season 2!
Mats, Norway!
Come on. I truly liked this show.
I was watching it with joy and thought it was great.
I hope the NBC guys get burned on this decision.
Who watches TV these days anyway, one can watch it online on Hulu or something much better and more convinient. Shows addressing a younger crowd will never get these ratings high because noone watches boring network stuff with 100 commercials in between any more. And i dont want to watch it when NBC tells me too. I want to watch it when i feel like it.
will certainly miss the show. I am Indian and loved watching it with my Japanese husband. In addition to the cultural jokes we loved, both of us have worked at companies in Japan where our IT support is outsourced to India.
I do hope some other network will pick up this series.
Stupid network! This was a great show! Our whole household watched it every week. It would take us an hour to watch a 30 min episode. It was so funny we would keep running it back for the funny stuff. We laughed until we had tears running.