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"Outsourced" is NBC's new workplace comedy series centered around a catalog-based company, Mid America Novelties, that sells American novelty goods including whoopee cushions, foam fingers and wallets made of bacon, and whose call center has suddenly been outsourced to India.
After recently completing Mid America Novelties' manager training program, Todd Dempsy 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 sales team Todd inherits includes Gupta, a socially awkward employee; Manmeet, a young romantic who is enamored with America; Asha, a smart, striking woman who finds herself intrigued by Todd; Rajiv, the assistant manager who wants Todd's job; and Madhuri, a wallflower who suffers from extreme shyness.
Todd also discovers other transplants working in his office building, including an American expatriate, Charlie Davies, who runs the All-American Hunter call center, and Tonya, a beautiful Australian who runs the call center for Koala Air.  |
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Ben Rappaport (The Gingerbread House [off-Broadway]), Diedrich Bader (The Drew Carey Show), Anisha Nagarajan (Bombay Dreams [Broadway]), Parvesh Cheena (Help Me Help You), Pippa Black (Neighbours), Rebecca Hazelwood (Doctors [BBC]), Rizwan Manji (Privileged), Sacha Dhawan (Five Days II [BBC])
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Robert Borden (The Drew Carey Show), Ken Kwapis (The Office), Victor Nelli, Jr. (Ugly Betty), Tom Gorai (Outsourced theatrical movie), David Skinner (Outsourced theatrical movie), Alexandra Beattie
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In Cahoots, Universal Media Studios
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NBC Thursday 9:30pm