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'Outsourced': Preview NBC's new Thursday night comedy
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"Outsourced" is NBC's new addition to its Thursday comedy lineup, as it joins "Community," "30 Rock" and "The Office" in the fall.The show stars Ben Rappaport (off-Broadway's "The Gingerbread House") as Todd Dempsey, an American novelties company manager who learns that he's being transferred to India to run his company's outsourced operations.
Rizwan Manji ("Privileged"), Sacha Dhawan (BBC's "Five Days II"), Rebecca Hazlewood (BBC's "Doctors"), Parvesh Cheena ("Help Me Help You"), and Anisha Nagarajan (Broadway's "Bombay Dreams") are the members of Dempsy's off-shore team; Diedrich Bader ("The Drew Carey Show") and Jessica Gower (Network Ten's "The Secret Life of Us") additionally star.
Check out these preview clips below and let us know what you think. Can "Outsourced" keep up with the hilarity of the other Thursday night comedies? "Outsourced" will air Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. ET, according to NBC's recently-released night-by-night schedule.
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Looks lame, super one note and bordering on racist. At the very least they shouldn't put this on Thursday nights!
The US economy is faltering due to outsourcing of jobs -isn't it a hilarious riot. The unemployed trailer rednecks are all going to love this one. Then there's the teabaggers, I suppose they will be sneaking a glance while they lick Satan's *******.
This was a movie w/the same title starring Josh Hamilton. True the US economy is faltering, outsourcing which has been happening for well over a decade is not the only reason, albeit annoying when dealing with ESL phone reps. The movie was an excellent fish out of water, love story, in which the lead learned a lot from the Indian staff about team & enthusiasm. It was in no way racist, other than uplifting the human race. Maybe this sitcom will follow suit.
As someone whose job was offshored to India in March, I will NOT be watching this!!
That might be the first show cancelled this season. I agree with Kat, definitely racist.
remember nbc is very patient with it's comedies, just look at park and comunity they have averaged just about 5 mill viewers a week so if this show can do that it will stay on
I don't care if it's borderline racist... or if people find it offensive because jobs are being outsourced. It's a comedy, and I laughed at these clips.
As a person who's job and support team are being relocated to Brazil and India Dec 2010, I find your attitude OFFENSIVE. How about a nice Holocaust comedy, or lets get a few chuckles out of slavery?? I'd bet you 20 bucks it's first series cancelled, but I'm saving it to keep my lights on in January.
As someone whose profession is negatively impacted by outsourcing to India, I can't begin to tell you how offended I am by this show. I most certainly find nothing amusing in this scenario whatsoever and will definitely not be watching this show. I will urge everyone I can to not watch this show. I am glad I don't watch anything on NBC because I would hate to support this network.
This doesn't look promising. Save your time and watch the movie, which was absolutely fabulous. I don't see this comedy going over well...