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 so funny and i think it is even better than glee n it is funnier and i think there should be season two i wish i could see how rajiv react in office after he had married vimi…..
Please bring it backkkkkkkk. Outsourced was great.
This sucks!!! Outsourced was really cool and different… BRING OUTSOURCED BACK!
I just wanted to let you know, this is 10 months later and i STILL watch it online. Please bring it back! It was one of the funniest shows out there and my famil & friends ( who are all indian ) found this show hilarious to watch!
i’m from maldives.this show rocks.my office mates got addicted to it when i showed this on a night shift.everybody in maldives is talking about the show.please tell me there will be a season 2..
This is the funniest show I’ve seen since Seinfeld; everything else on TV sucks.
What a shame….great comedy, great actors….loved it!
i love this show…
my whole family watches it………
plzzzz air its second season………
i love this show…
my whole family watches it………
plzzzz air its second season………
whats wrong with NBC? I don’t know how and where they rate it!! but this show rocks.
it was never announced that such show was coming. my friend refered me to watch it. He passed me an episode and i already fell in love with it. Funny, witty, short sweet plot – that’s what we need. by the way I am not totally into Sitcoms but this show pulled me down.. stuck my ass on sofa for those episode in Zee Cafe..
I can’t believe this show was cancelled. It was so original and funny! I loved it! Please bring it back!
This was as great show. Funny and sweet. My family and friends really liked it. I agree with the comment that NBC shoots itself in the foot. Why not try a couple different time slots and see if it gets a better audience? Seems like they pull shows before they get a chance to gain an audience.
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I love “Outsourced” and I still watch the episodes even after having watched them over 5 times each. I was really sad when I heard it was cancelled and I hope you guys change your minds some day and bring it back.
Another case of NBC shooting itself in the foot. Show was funny, had beautiful women, the crazed over the top American, and always left me impatiently waiting for the next show. Too bad someone else couldn’t pick this up and run with it. Guess that’s why I watch cable these days.
Bring it back it was funny without being dirty