Has anyone seen the promos for "Outsourced?"

[Dulcinea]

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"Outsourced" is a comedy where the Midwest meets the exotic East in a hilarious culture clash. The series centers on the all-American company Mid America Novelties that sells whoopee cushions, foam fingers and wallets made of bacon -- and whose call center has suddenly been outsourced to India. Todd Dempsey (Ben Rappaport, off-Broadway's "The Gingerbread House") is the new company's manager who learns that he's being transferred to India to run the operation.


Overwhelmed, Todd discovers that his new staff needs a crash course in all things American if they are to understand the U.S. product line and ramp up sales from halfway around the world. But as strange as America seems to his eclectic sales team, Todd soon realizes that figuring out India will be more than a full-time job. 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") also star as members of Dempsey's off-shore team; Diedrich Bader ("The Drew Carey Show") and Jessica Gower (Network Ten's "The Secret Life of Us") additionally star.


"Outsourced" is produced by Universal Media Studios. Robert Borden ("The Drew Carey Show" and "George Lopez") is executive producer/writer. Ken Kwapis ("The Office") developed the project through his company, In Cahoots, and serves as executive producer/director. Alex Beattie serves as co-executive producer.

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http://www.nbc.com/news/2010/05/07/nbc-picks-up-three-new-series-for-2010-11-season-with-the-event-outsourced-and-love-bites/

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[jtuck004]

1. I wonder if it would be seen as humorous if a couple million outsourced

and unemployed workers showed up at the studio to voice an opinion...

[bif]

2. I saw the movie about a year ago

It was surprisingly good.

[Warpy]

3. They should have released it a couple of years ago

before the crash and unemployment made all that useless plastic shit impossible to sell to most of us. This is a movie for the good times, when we all had plastic credit that would never end even if we didn't have the money to pay it off.

What would have been hilarious then is probably going to be a frost now.

[Statistical]

4. When I saw the commercial I was like WTF?

I mean especially right now with unemployment at 10%, and even people who are employed fearful of losing a job? Really.

I mean talk about totally out of touch.

Kinda like making a remake of Independence Day except aliens blows up the Pentagon and World Trade center right after 9/11. Complete with burning people jumping to their deaths and first responders getting crushed trying to reach those trapped.

[OhioChick]

7. Agreed. Don't think this is going to go over well here. n/t

[bif]

5. I didn't know it was a tv show.

Still, the movie was worth watching.

[AngryOldDem]

6. I hope it goes down in flames after the pilot episode.

Incredibly bad idea for television show with so many people out of work exactly because of outsourcing. My teeth clench when the promos come on.

NBC should also offer a drama about what it's like to be unemployed with bills to pay and a family to feed. But I guess that would be just too damned depressing.

[SocialistLez]

9. +1

"NBC should also offer a drama about what it's like to be unemployed with bills to pay and a family to feed."

I say they should cast it with people who lost their jobs to offshoring/corporate greed.

[AngryOldDem]

11. Yeah...call it "The REAL Real World." n/t

[SocialistLez]

8. Now is not the time for that kind of show.

I won't be watching it.

Funny how NBC is airing it.
GE outsources plenty of jobs.

[daggahead]

10. Nice to see somebody can make light of ...

... a serious problem.

I hope it gets canceled before it airs.

Better yet, they should make it more realistic and show the slavery-like conditions in the Chinese factories that manufacture cheap plastic crap that lines the shelves at dollar stores.

They can show how funny it is to live in the factory "dorms" and how they have to work "yet another weekend or be beaten."

HILARIOUS stuff!

[HockeyMom]

12. We heard this years ago

When my husband's IT job was offshored (ironic?), he drove a limo. One day he picked up a woman going to JFK who worked for Dell and was flying to Texas. In the conversation, he mentioned he was an out of work Techie. She said her job entailed teaching Dell's India staff to speak English with varous US accents so people here in this country wouldn't "know" they had reached India's Help Line.

My husband said he was furious when he heard this, but had to keep this cool. I seriously doubt he is going to watch this show. He might be too tempted to throw something at the TV.

[Oregone]

13. The movie was obnoxious

[NeedleCast]

14. Sounds Like "The Office - India Edition"

I'll probably give it a shot though. It's got some of the same writers as The Office, which is one of the few network TV shows that I watch.

[howaboutme]

15. The power of the media

is often used to confuse people and their thinking.

Now millions of Americans can think ----- Gee I guess it isn't so bad that we've had our economy stolen and shipped to India and China so that the global rich get richer, and most Americans have much less, and we have 3 billion Chinese and Indians driving Chinese and Indian cars instead of riding bicycles.