by Joe Gillis, Aug 31 2010 // 12:00 PM
NBC has had a pretty good track record with their comedies in the past few seasons. Who can forget Parks & Recreation and Community, two of their newest shows on Thursday night, and probably two of their best. Now the network is planning on continuing the trend with this season’s next big comedy, Outsourced.
Consider the show like The Office or Parks but with the classic “fish out of water” plot twist. Need more? NBC spells out the premise in a recent press release:
After recently completing Mid America Novelties’ manager training program, Todd Dempsy (Ben Rappaport, off-Broadway’s “The Gingerbread House”) learns that the call center is being outsourced to India, and he is asked to move there to be the manager. Having never ventured out of the country, he is unprepared for the culture shock. 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.
The cast is full of most Indian character actors you’ve seen for years, and now get to watch shine. We’ve got two new clips from the upcoming series, which proves that the show will fit right in at home with the awkward Michael Scott and misunderstood Leslie Knope.
Check out the clips after the jump, and join us in welcoming the newest motley crew to NBC’s Thurdsay night line up on September 23rd at 9:30PM.
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by Chris Ullrich, Jul 19 2010 // 3:00 PM
With Comic-Con coming up this week comes all sorts of new shows, panels and previews for new TV shows. One show we’ve been following for some time, The Event, and a relatively new one for us, Outsourced. Both look interesting and we are looking forward to seeing them once they debut in the Fall.
In the meantime, as we do often, we’ve got previews for both shows from our friends at NBC to share with you today. First up is The Event where we see The President being rather Presidential and demanding to know what The Event is all about. The President doesn’t know? When something is this Top Secret, you know it’s gonna be big. And by big I mean good.
Next up is Outsourced. In this preview we meet some of the actors from the show and learn more about their characters. I’m sure we’ve all had amusing experiences with customer service from other countries so this show should be pretty funny. Plus, interesting accents are always a plus.
Bonus: If you’re attending Comic-Con in San Diego, be sure to check out The Event panel, which will be taking place on Saturday, July 24th at 11:15a in Ballroom 6A. They will also be Tweeting the panel live so if you’re not in San Diego, you can follow the action that way.
Click through to check out all the videos for these two shows.
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