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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This series is vary nice, please get them back!!! I love archa. Dont cancelled.
very nice!
I personally loved this show. I really don’t know how the rating system works but I believe it probably needs changed. I work 3rd shift which means I really dont watch alot of tv, plus we have 3 kids in the house which translates into the Tv’s are glued to Disney, Nickjr, Cartoon Network. I live off of boxsets, Hulu Plus, and Netflix if I want to watch TV. This is probably where the rating system probably needs to change. I am a faithful Boxsets buyer if I like the show, Smallville cost me over $300 if you look at… Read more »
This was one of the best shows we’ve seen in a longtime. Bring it back!
I miss Outsourced!
This is/was one of the best/funniest shows on the tube. Too bad the suits did’t understand the humor that the rest of us working stiffs understood so well!
I was so disappointed to find out that there will be no season 2. I really enjoyed theshow Their acting is amazing! Please bring it s back!
Love that show! Please put it back on
i love that show! Everyone i know loves it too. It definitely deserves to continue. In fact, I’m quite shocked at its TRPs. *fingers crossed* hoping for the next season to come!
Just damn. I don’t watch much TV aside from news, but I made an exception for “Outsourced”, which I found extremely funny and very endearing with the character development among all the members of the show. Please bring it back, NBC…there’s not much reason to watch you otherwise.
I really liked Outsourced at the beginning. I found the characters to be very entertaining. It had a really nice vibe to it. I watched it all the time. Then the romance between Ben and Pippa got to be a regular thing. It became boring. Pippa’s character was not likable, especially being connected to such a sweet guy like Todd. I loved all the Indian characters. They are very talented actors. The show was fun…..except for that relationship. The writers went in the wrong direction….it’s to bad because it had a lot of promise and I can honestly say I… Read more »
I think it is beause it is to racy. People dont like the idea that everything is being shipped overseas. Or they may not like how the show was handled.
I absolutely love this show! This show definitely deserves to continue.
i just found out outsourced got cancelled and really hope they can get picked up by another network soon. love the show:((((
Yes, I do too. I thought it was going to be picked up by one of the cable channels…like tbs or something like that but I havent heard anything since that specilation.
Any chance/reason to hope the people in charge may change their minds?
I don’t find enough info on who thought of this show as controversial. Is there info?
thanks, Rusty
want outsoucred back 11111111111111111111111111111111