NBC’s Outsourced Canceled: Sad But Not Surprised

By Sanjay | Thursday, May 19, 2011 | 17 Comments

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8a outsourced NBC’s Outsourced Canceled: Sad But Not Surprised And so it is over. As NBC officially announced its Fall Prime Time schedule early Monday this week, fans were disappointed to see Outsourced axed, along with The Event with Ian Anthony Dale and Perfect Couples co-starring Olivia Munn. Fact: now there will be even less APIs on the Peacock network. Fact: the peacock is native to Asia. Lose.

After reading the wires, my heart sank- yet I wasn’t as shocked as I could have been, after a season long of pinching myself and not letting myself get too attached, thinking its simply too good to be true!

But the real shame was that Outsourced was actually getting really really good, and more people were starting to warm up to it. What might have hurt ratings was the mid-season time shift, which is a KNOWN network practice to try to silently shuffle out a show by forcing a shifting audience pattern.

However, this is show business and NBC’s Broadcasting Chairman Ted Harbert hit the point home by saying 2011 is going to be about “a little less reinvention of the wheel and more broadcast 101.” (Translation: ‘no money– different new not bring money, old tested bring money, Ted promotion time, raawr/yaay!’)

However, the show did go out with a Bollywood Bang that I don’t really want to spoil as we are all going to rush out and buy the Season 1 Director’s Cut Special Edition box set on BluRay combo pack with collectible Gupta bobble head doll when it comes out right…RIGHT!??!

In addition, NBC also canceled the lukewarm series The Event which I had forced myself to watch, regardless of how bad it was, because I didn’t want to get left behind not watching from the start (like when Lost got big). Damn you NBC, that’s two reasons now that you are on my shit list!!

Keeping with a Ghandian approach to compassion in this post, and not shaking my fists at the NBC execs too furiously, I am happy to share NBC’s exciting new roster of cool shows for the fall. All is not lost, I am also un-reasonably excited about the upcoming Are Your There Vodka, It’s Me Chelsea project, based on Chelsea Handler’s best selling memoir coming this fall.

So NBC, you messed up real bad with cancelling Outsourced which means you’ll be sleeping on the couch this next season. If you want to get out of the doghouse, you better deliver with some Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang action soon, real soon.

Now you know how I feel about these changes, hit us back with your thoughts!

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WHAT A TRAGEDY!!!
jamiedawson19

I REALLY wish NBC would reconsider its cancellation of Outsourced. You’re absolutely right when you say it was getting really good and with over a billion Indians in the world it was nice to have some representation on network TV. I was my favorite Thurday show. So sad!!!
Raminder

Omg I really hope NBC would reconsider as well. It was a great show and I was really looking forward for season two. Its so sad to know that it got canceled…why all good shows get canceled? I’m sad.

Please please please NBC reconsider your decision.
EmilyPhillips

Very glad it was cancelled, the main character was extremely unlikeable. This was not true to the movie in the slightest and wasn’t even particularly funny. When the first major joke in a show is ‘haha your name sounds like penis’, you know it’s not going to be fun. Todd was kind of a huge jerk and he showed no sign of learning any life lessons. He had almost no redeeming qualities.
MariaSansalone

Very disappointed to hear that outsourced was cancelled I was looking forward to Season 2. The show was really funny and colourful and the cast was Great!!! WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT every time there is something nice to watch it gets cancelled…Also it was shown at a very weird time maybe if they had changed the time slot … nowadays is always about ratings not enjoyment….I hope they will reconsider and

bring it back……
sahalemarja

Hey! I didn’t realize that outsourced the show was based on a movie! This is awesome! have you seen this?? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425326/
timat8asians

@sahalemarja The movie is much better. If you haven’t seen it you must.
HeatherOjeda

I totally agree…what a mistake to cancel Outsourced, it was one of the few shows I would never miss!! NBC, you blew it again! But I’m definitely down for a GUPTA BOBBLEHEAD!!!!!!
BrentCaruso

@EmilyPhillips I find it hard to believe that you did not see a single transformation in Todd the entire first season, besides the fact that he got over the initial culture shock or being randomly moved to India. He even started falling for one of the locals, which didn’t work out and I kind of wished they had done more with that other than he’s now dating an Australian chick. The humor of Outsourced was very close to that of the Office, so I’ll go out on a limb and say you don’t like that show either. Todd was just like Michael in terms of uncomfortable situations, and why wouldn’t he be one giant uncomfortable situation, I’m sure we’d be able to throw you into India with no warning and tell you to work there and not expect you to do some bizarre things.
BrentCaruso

I think NBC is taking the Fox approach and canceling good shows just to have a different station pick it up and let it reach it’s full potential.
JoshuaPetersen

WTF you must been one of those people who watch like two or three episodes and then stop u have no room to talk if u havent watched the whole think GDit @EmilyPhillips
ajuliea

“Outsourced” was a great show! Superb lines and well cast!. The problem was that the show was hardly promoted or advertised! Everyone I ever talked to had 1) never heard of the show; or 2) really liked it! Hello!?! Had it had the opportunity to trail a great show in its first season would have made it a sure-fire winner; it just needed a little publicity! Very disappointing!!!!
ajuliea

@EmilyPhillips ….just to let you know: Outsourced is a sitcom…sounds like you were taking it way too seriously…….sorry that you missed the humor
SydneySolis

I haven’t watched a television show in more than eight years. I’ve never watched a reality show or any moronic American trash the networks can dish out. Too insulting of my intelligence. Outsourced, however, was the only one my son got me to watch online. It was funny, well scripted and a cultural-clashing gem of sarcasm and wit to show us our complex, multicultural and globalized world. It had great characters that we cared about, and it held up a mirror to the stupidity of American consumer culture and its shallow women. I felt most episodes were too heavy male-centric, and the Gupta/Manmeet juvenile sex and stupidity romps got old. I would have liked to see the female roles more developed and have a leading edge in a script. But this was by far the best TV show out there and I will be sad to see it go. Good luck, networks, rehashing the same old slogs just for another ever-worthless dollar. It won’t work. You should have stuck with the original winner that Outsourced was.
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SuraktimNath

@EmilyPhillips What the heck..!!!! u r such a miserable creature…..get a life lady…..
eddyh

you sound like some neonazi dike bitch who wouldnt know a good thing if it slapped ou in your fat pig head

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