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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NBC may have seen ratings fall but they need to review how many people went back and watched it from online. This was a great show – so honest, straightforward and SO VERY TRUE to real life. BRING IT BACK.
Outsource was a good comedy show. My family and I love this show, it was hillarious, and very realistic. Great humor, and Oh boy, we are going to miss Gupta!–His character was so funny. Please bring the show back!— there is was nothing wrong with this show–
Outsourced was the best! It was realistic and funny and a real source of variety and diversity on television. Finally a show that actually featured Indian actors and not just actors who were hired to appear Indian (like show business does most of the time–particularly with Asian and Native American actors). It was educational, funny, and candid! I think it might have been cancelled or lost viewership because America (particularly White America) is not fully ready to look at their colonial ways, or the subjects of race and racism, even when packaged in a hilarious way. I loved that the… Read more »
bring outsourced back
it was the best comedy show ever
It was doomed when they changed the time. It had great ratings when it was at 9 then they moved it to 10 and didn’t tell anyone. They need to bring it back. it was the one show that NBC had worth watching…
I’ve been waiting and waiting for this show to come back on this season so I fineally decided to look…this makes me sad. This show was so funny! Maybe part of the problem was that it was on at the same time another “good” show was on. Bring it back on Sundays…nothing is ever on Sunday evening!
I was just wondering when season 2 would start and found that it won’t. How sad for all of us. It was very funny.
I just looked online for when Outsourced was restarting this fall and couldn’t believe it was cancelled!! It was my favorite new show from last year, and an excellent comedy. BIRNG IT BACK!
I LOVE THIS SHOW! I agree with all the other comments, way to get rid of a quality show. I could have watched this for years, I barely discovered it on Hulu!
Outsourced was my favorite TV show! I can’t believe it was cancelled!
Outsourced was so realistic and funny at the same time. My neighbors and best friend(s) are East Indian people. The show was very realistic and brought to life many of the things they have encountered back home in their own lives …and, even since some of the new members of the family have moved here to the United States. I was the one who originally ran across Outsourced and fell in love with the cast, the scripts, the music, and the beautiful clothing and the stories and the messages and the education it gave week after week into the lives… Read more »
Hey NBC, you should look at votes the viewers have gone for not cancelling the TV show. i mean this was probably the only show a family could enjoy together without being embarrassed about any dirty scenes occurring and could enjoy the whole duration with laughter. if this is not staying then i dont think it is worth watching any other NBC tv shows; who knows when you guys go on cancelling another one of these…
we want more outsourced NBC!!! it was the best comedy show ever!
no por favor outsourced es mi serie favorita , es una excelente comedia
Great show, I’m really sad to here their will not be a second season. The plot and setting were so distinct from every other show