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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I always watched it or dvr’d it. Too bad they cancelled a good show and left junk on.
Are you kidding me, a show is about outsourcing is suppose to be funny? It is a slap in the face to the 14 million Americans who can’t find an american living wage job.
No body should pick this show up.
My wife and I loved this show. I find the “racist” issue with this show to be an interesting one. We are of Indian decent and don’t find it racist at all, but we’ve heard from a lot of our non-Indian friends and neighbors about how they stopped watching after the first episode because they felt it was insulting to the Indian community. All NBC had to do was ask people of Indian decent and I can assure not one of them would have said it was racist. Some of the things were blown out of proportion, but it’s a… Read more »
Thumbs up!!
I couldn’t believe this when I read it. The finest comedy comes from taking a bad situation (job outsourcing) and making people laugh about it when they realize who made the decision and why. Thank NBC for following the course of the show. Please pick it up somebody!
Article fails to mention part of the reason the ratings went down was because NBC moved the show the 10:30 time slot – the graveyard slot for comedies and also after the viewer has already watched 2.5 hours of comedy. Also fails to mention the show that replaced it didn’t get any better ratings.
How can this be??? Outsourced is hands-down the most delightful comedy on TV. My wife loved the characters and looked forward to each episode. Our hope is that another, wiser network will pick it up.
So disappointed that this show got cancelled. It was one of my favorite shows, I really hope that some other network picks this up and place it on a more favorable time-slot.
Sorry to see it go…can’t imagine the shift to a later time slot helped ratings…
I’m sorry to see it won’t be given the chance for a second season. I really enjoyed the show. It was nice to have something different for a change, from the diluge of medical and cop shows.
PLEASE someone else pick this show up…it was the best sitcom on this season..
Where can I sign up to cancel NBC?
What a shame. I hope someone else picks up the show. I was just getting into it .
I loved this show and looked forward to it every Thursday. It was refreshing and such a break from the tasteless reality shows. Please bring it back.
My wife and I enjoyed it, not filled with laughs but with smiles — warm, even educational to some degree, we liked the characters. I’m not sure how it was racist — it gave depth to the characters, and depth is what helps dissipate racist stereotypes. Sorry to see it go, tho glad it went with that last episode — it’s all tied up neatly at this point and we can envision Todd and Asha together for the future.
Nooooo!!!! How can u cancel this show :((((
U guys suck!!!! This is one my fav shows <3!!!