NBC is heading east with Outsourced, an India-set comedy project to be directed and exec produced by Ken Kwapis based on the indie comedy of the same name.
The single-camera project, which has received a premium script commitment from the network, centers on a customer service manager in Seattle whose department is outsourced to India, and he goes there to train his replacement. The project explores the clash of the Western and Indian cultures and chronicles the manager's romance with a local woman.
Outsourced screenwriters George Wing (50 First Dates) and John Jeffcoat are on board to pen the pilot script. They also will executive produce with Kwapis and the film's producers, Tom Gorai and David Skinner. Alexandra Beattie will serve as co-exec producer.
Kwapis and Beattie's In Cahoots and Universal Media Studios are producing the comedy.
The premise of a romantic comedy about an American man falling for a woman from a different ethnic background draws parallels to another indie film, the smash hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding. A half-hour series version of Greek also was sold near the film's premiere in 2002.
The single-camera project, which has received a premium script commitment from the network, centers on a customer service manager in Seattle whose department is outsourced to India, and he goes there to train his replacement. The project explores the clash of the Western and Indian cultures and chronicles the manager's romance with a local woman.
Outsourced screenwriters George Wing (50 First Dates) and John Jeffcoat are on board to pen the pilot script. They also will executive produce with Kwapis and the film's producers, Tom Gorai and David Skinner. Alexandra Beattie will serve as co-exec producer.
Kwapis and Beattie's In Cahoots and Universal Media Studios are producing the comedy.
The premise of a romantic comedy about an American man falling for a woman from a different ethnic background draws parallels to another indie film, the smash hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding. A half-hour series version of Greek also was sold near the film's premiere in 2002.
- 10/8/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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