PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA, THE: FALL TV PREVIEW PARTIES 2010: NBC {PUBLIC SHORT VERSION}
Summary
One in a series of evenings and special screenings presented by The Paley Center for Media’s Inside Media series. Held at The Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles, this evening is a panel for the 2010 Fall Preview for NBC, on “Outsourced,” a sitcom television series about an American manager for a novelty item company reassigned to run a call center in India. The panelists are introduced by the evenings’ moderator, Craig Tomashoff (reporter, TV Guide): executive producer Victor Nelli; and cast members Parvesh Cheena (Gupta); Rizwan Manji (Rajiv); Pippa Black (Tonya); Sacha Dhawan (Manmeet); Diedrich Bader (Charlie Davies); Anisha Nagarajan (Madhuri); Rebecca Hazelwood (Asha); and Ben Rappaport (Todd Dempsy). Topics of discussion include: how the television show originated as a spinoff of a film of the same name; how “Outsourced” fares in comparison to NBC’s current lineup of office-based sitcoms; Cheen and Manji’s recollections of their screen test; Rappaport, Hazelwood, and Nagarajan on their auditions; the diverse nationalities of the cast members; the cast members on having their family members on set; the types of Indian accent used by the characters and the input of the casts’ Indian relatives; upcoming musical episodes and Nagarajan’s musical inclinations; similarities and differences between the cast members and their characters; the casts’ recollections of their worst jobs; Indian members of the show’s production staff and their contribution to the show’s verisimilitude; the possibility of adapting the casts’ personal experiences into the show’s story; and how the novelty items featured in the show are devised.
Details
- NETWORK: N/A
- DATE: September 9, 2010 7:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:30:10
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 103916
- GENRE: Seminars
- SUBJECT HEADING: N/A
- SERIES RUN: N/A
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Craig Tomashoff … Moderator
- Parvesh Cheena … Panelist
- Rizwan Manji … Panelist
- Pippa Black … Panelist
- Sacha Dhawan … Panelist
- Diedrich Bader … Panelist
- Anisha Nagarajan … Panelist
- Rebecca Hazelwood … Panelist
- Ben Rappaport … Panelist
- Victor Nelli … Panelist