I caught the premiere of NBC's new Thursday night TV show, "Outsourced" on September 23rd on www.bestchoicetv.com/satellite-tv/tx/ satellite TV from. I was not disappointed. Set in a Mumbai, India, "Outsourced" follows the shenanigans of an American call center which has been outsourced to India for fiscal reasons. Not at all uncommon, but it presents another set of difficulties when the products you're selling are American novelties that require some knowledge of American culture to completely grasp.
Starring Ben Rappaport as Todd Dempsy, the show follows this lone American salesman leaving the mid-west to manage a call center in India. He meets an interesting set of characters in Manmeet (Sacha Dhawan), Gupta (Parvesh Cheena), Rajiv Gidwaniand (Rizwan Manji), Madhuri (Anisha Nagarajan) and Asha (Rebecca Hazlewood). Assistant manager Rajiv is clearly after Todd's position, Gupta won't shut up, Manmeet is more interested in the ladies, Madhuri whispers everything and Asha obviously wants him. To top it all off, none of them understand the novelties. Green Bay, Wisconsin's trademark "cheesehead" is a completely foreign concept as is fake vomit, whoopee cushions and the like. Todd must explain American popular culture to his employees as he comes to try to understand Indian culture. My favorite parts included Todd's joy in the name "Manmeet" and when another call center manager, Charlie Davies, played by Diedrich Bader, warns Todd that he'll get the runs for 5 days if he eats the spice filled Indian food.
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