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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It is a great show! Really great show! Love all the characters. NBC should bring it back!
I was stunned and most disappointed to find that Outsourced was canceled. It was hilarious and the comic timing was genious. We talked about it at the office every week. Every actor played their role perfectly. I watched the show on HULU. I wonder if HULU numbers were counted in the mix when they added up the number of viewers. It really should come back! My applause to the writers and producers of this show. I am uber selective about the TV I watch. I laughed aloud on this one. Major disappointment. Whoever made the final call on this one… Read more »
Very sad, they keep the stupid boring shows and cancel one of the best shows I’ve seen.
Shame on NBC. Stupid ********.
Great show very funny should be brought back!
I just discovered this show on Hulu and I thought it was hilarious!!!! I googled it only to see that is was cancelled. ARRRGGGHHH!!! I am so sick of finding great new shows only for them not to last:(
I cant believe it… say it isnt so!!! What a great show that had everything but not that raunchy low humor like other shows because it was set in India. Oh well.
Outsourced was hilarious- I loved it!!
( I watched all the episodes on Hulu)-
I have no idea why it didn’t catch on… Maybe, like me, no one knew about it until too late…
i don’t know what scandal you refer to in the paragraph 1. we love the show. as do everyone to whom we introduced this marvelous romantic-transcultural-comedy… oh yes, did i mention we are not in the us ? maybe that is why……
I am so disappointed. Hopefully another network will bring Outsourced back. I grew attached to those characters and they made me laugh and cry every week. Feels almost like some friends have gone away. These days we need a show like this that is just really funny and not stupid.
I have just learned that “Outsourced” will not be back for the 2011-2012 season. What a shame! It was one of the few shows that we watched weekly last year. A truly enjoyable show with lots of humor. (Yes, I’ve been to India…)
this sucks serious gonads, the show was really funny – i have no idea why it didn’t catch on. I watched it yesterday and was looking for a season two only to be met with this depressing news
I think that they should make another season. I enjoyed watching the series, and I can bet other people loved it too and it would be a shame if they didn’t make another season.
The series is full of humour and every episode made me laugh repeatedly.
I think its a great show, want it back… i saw the entire season in one day last summer because it was so good. Today I decided to search for the second season and i came with this news that it was canceled. I’m disappointed.
i just cane across it recently and it s a wonderful show, love the humor! i hope they bring it back.
Please bring outsourced back, I’ve never laughed so hard watching a show before – the writing/casting was great! I miss it!