Outsourced

Outsourced, 10.45pm, Seven
Todd gives Charlie a job after the company he works for goes out of business, and Rajiv uses Gupta to help try to trick a charity into paying for his honeymoon.

Nikita, 9.35pm, FOX8
Nikita rescues Jill, a journalist who is trying to expose a conspiracy involving Division and a major plane crash. Michael and Percy suspect Birkhoff of being Nikita’s inside mole and send Amanda in to interrogate him. Meanwhile, Michael enlists the help of the recruits – Alex, Jaden and Thom – to help locate their latest target.

My Sri Lanka with Peter Kuruvita, 7.30pm, SBS ONE
After 30 years of isolation due to civil war, Peter revisits the northern capital of Jaffna and its diverse people. Here, Peter hires an old Morris Oxford, traversing the city and connecting with monks who make their own pure grape wine and Muslim butchers who consider goat their favourite meal.

The People’s Supermarket, 8.34pm, ABC1
Chef and restaurateur Arthur Potts Dawson and a group of British shoppers from one town attempt the seemingly impossible: they set up their own supermarket to take on the big boys and beat them in terms of price and quality.

Pleasantville, 8.30pm, GEM
A brother and sister from the 1990s are sucked into their television set and suddenly find themselves trapped in a 1950s-style television show. Here they have loving parents, old-fashioned values and an overwhelming amount of innocence and naivete.

Seven have filled in those TBA’s in their guide for next week (Week 49 November 27-December 3).

Sunday November 27
6.30 Mighty Ships – new
7.30 Dog Patrol – new series premiere
8.00 Coastwatch – series return

Tuesday November 29
7.30 Happy Endings – new
8.00 How I Met Your Mother rpt
8.30 Movie: Meet The Parents

Thursday December 1
8.30 Movie: In Her Shoes
10.30 Outsourced x 2 new

Friday December 2
8.30 Lewis – series return

Saturday December 3
6.30 No Leave No Life – series return
7.00 Movie: Definitely Maybe
9.20 Movie: King Arthur

Similar programming continues the following week. Outsourced continues on Thursdays from December 1 at 10.30pm, after the Thursday movie.

Press release programming summary:

SUNDAYS from November 27
7:30pm ALL NEW: DOG PATROL
8:00pm ALL NEW: COASTWATCH
10:30pm ALL NEW: ROYAL PAINS
11:30pm ALL NEW: LOVE BITES

MONDAYS from November 28
7:30pm ALL NEW: SERIOUS CRASH UNIT
8:00pm ALL NEW: DRUG BUST
9:30pm ALL NEW: AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS

TUESDAYS from November 29
7:30pm ALL NEW: HAPPY ENDINGS
10:50pm ALL NEW: PARKS AND RECREATION

WEDNESDAYS from November 30
7:30pm ALL NEW: WORLD’S STRICTEST PARENTS UK
9:40pm ALL NEW: AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS

THURSDAYS from December 1
7:30pm ALL NEW: THE AMAZING RACE
10:30pm ALL NEW: OUTSOURCED 

FRIDAYS from December 2
7:30pm SUMMER SERIES: BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS
8:30pm ALL NEW: LEWIS

SATURDAYS from December 3
6:30pm ALL NEW: NO LEAVE NO LIFE (hosted by Rosso)

The
Celebrity Apprentice, Nine, 7.02pm

Someone from the girls team will be fired tonight. Will it be Deni with
her attitude? Pauline? Find out tonight.

Beauty
and the Geek Australia, Seven, 7.30pm.

New time. Makeover show for the geeks.

Trails
from the East, SBS TWO, 7.30pm

Indian Paradox of the 21st Century (Part 1). This train journey takes
us from the border of Bangladesh south through India. India is a
fast-changing society, which is trying to maintain its identity. One
young traveller talks about his dream to become the manager of an
multinational IT firm. Not an unrealistic dream in India, which has
become an IT superpower in the past 10 years. India is competing with
the world, but at the same time, everyone has strong ties with century
old traditions.

The
Amazing Race, Seven, 9.00pm

New time, and moves to 8.30 next week. Who will be eliminated tonight.

Outsourced,
Seven, 10.30pm

If you haven’t checked this show out yet, you should! Think about what
us Aussies say that the yanks don’t get? Not to mention the culture
clashes in India.

Outsourced: Pilot, 10.30pm, Seven
When manager Todd Dempsy returns to work, he learns that his department has been outsourced to India./ When Todd reluctantly begins employee evaluations, the staff becomes nervous about their job security.

Recruits Paramedics, 7.30pm, TEN
Graduation day and 50 trainee paramedics celebrate making it through eight tough weeks of theory assessment at college. They’ve earned the right to hit the road. 

True Blood, 8.30pm, showcase
After her latest near-death trauma, Sookie envisions a world where there’s room for both Bill and Eric. Jesus tries to purge the restless spirit out of Lafayette and Marcus enlists Alcide to help him deal with the Sam situation.

Crownies, 9.33pm,  ABC1
Ben and Tony work together to try to sort out the legal complexities of an exorcism case; while Erin agrees to a blind date with Conrad’s carpenter friend from the gym.

The Hangover, 9.30pm, GO!
Celebrating his impending marriage to Tracy, Doug and his friends, travel to Vegas – the city of sin – for a bachelor party they’ll never forget!

Seven are set to enter the fast tracking race for 2011/2011 with new Parenthood and The Amazing Race (US) both coming to the network’s schedule in the next two weeks.

Parenthood returns with season three at 9.30pm Tuesday October 4, replacing Dinner Date.

The One – Australia’s Most Gifted Psychic premieres with season two on Wednesday October 5 at 7.30pm. Four Weddings remains at 7.30pm Thursdays while World’s Strictest Parents is of the schedule.

At 9.30pm on Thursday October 6, is the double episode premiere of season 19 of the Amazing Race (US).

Sunday October 6′s coverage of the Bathurst 1000 is live on Seven and live in HD on 7mate.

The following week sees US series Outsourced premiere at 10.30pm Thursday October 13, with the series final of Off The Map following at 11.30pm.

In what may be a sign of shows to hit Australian television screens in the future, US network NBC has unveiled its latest batch of pick ups.

On top of J.J Abrams “Undercovers”, comes “The Event”, “Outsourced”, “Love Bites” and Jerry Bruckheimers action adventure “Chase” set to premiere this coming season.

The futures of “Heroes” and “Chuck” are still uncertain but it is thought that “Chuck” will get a fourth season and “Heroes” a final 13 episode wind-up.

Other pilots looking like strong contenders are David E Kelley’s (Ally McBeal) “Kindrids” and “Law and Order : LA”.

“UNDERCOVERS”
This espionage show by J.J Abrams (Lost) is about a couple in years into their retirement and are reactivated as CIA agents. Boris Kodjoe and Gugu Mbatha-Raw will star as the married couple Stephen and Samantha Bloom. It’s the first association between J.J Abrams and the NBC network.

“CHASE”
Bruckheimers “Chase” is about a group of elite US Marshals who hunt down the most dangerous fugitives in America. Kellie Giddish (All My Children) plays a boot wearing deputy with a Texan upbringing, named Annie Frost. The show will also star Amaury Nolasco (Prison Break), Rose Rollins (The L Word) and Jesse Metcalfe (Desperate Housewives).

“THE EVENT”
Sean Walker (Jason Ritter) investigates the dissapearance of his fiancee and unwittingly begins to expose the biggest cover-up in US history, that could change the fate of mankind. Also Starring Blair Underwood (Dirty, Sexy, Money) as the President snd Laura Innes (ER) and Scott Patterson (Gilmore Girls).

“OUTSOURCED”
The premise for this show sounds very familiar. It’s a culture clash comedy where Midwest America meets the exotic East. “Outsourced” is about an American novelty toy company whose call centre has been outsourced to India. The manager (Ben Rappaport) is sent to India to teach them about all things American. It sounds a lot like the Sanjeev Bhaskar show “Mumbai Calling” that aired on ABC (Australia). The show will also star Jessica Gower from The Secret Life of Us and All Saints.

“LOVE BITES”
This one hour romantic comedy, will rotate around three loosely connected stories of love, sex, marriage and dating. With an apparent edgy and irreverent spin, its writer is Cindy Chupack (Sex in the City). Annie (Becki Newton – Ugly Betty) and Frannie (Jordano Spiro) are 2 single girls after all their friends have married. These two characters will anchor the show, while the third romantically challenged character will be a different guest star each week. Guest Stars in the pilot include, Jennifer Love Hewitt (Ghost Whisperer), Greg Grunberg (Heroes) and Jason Lewis (Sex in the City). This is the first “Working Title TV” production in the USA. “Working Title” are the people who did Love Actually and the Bridget Jones films.

Sources – IMDB.com and The Hollywood Reporter.com