The Philanthropist is an American action/drama brought to you in amazing high definition courtesy of NBC.  This program premiered on June 24, 2009 and has done exceptionally well thus far.  The cast of The Philanthropist is as follows: James Purefoy as Teddy Rist (billionaire creationist of charitable deeds), Jesse L. Martin as Philip Maidstone (Co-CEO of Rist's company and personal friend of Teddy) ,

Now you can watch the above tv shows from outside USA!

Neve Campbell as Olivia Maidstone (Phillip's wife), Michael Kenneth Williams as Dax (Iraq war veteran and Teddy's personal bodyguard), Lindy Booth as A.J. Butterfield (Director of Special Projects - Maidstone-Rist), and Krista Allen as Julia Carson Rist (Teddy's wife),

Teddy Rist is a billionaire playboy constantly plagued with the reminder of the death of his firstborn child.  He rescues a young boy during a hurricane in Nigeria, leading him to the resulting steadfast purpose of saving the lives of others.  Teddy realizes his true calling is not only to enjoy his own life, but to save complete strangers in appreciation of his own fortunate circumstance. 

European accents are prevalent in this thoroughly enjoyable billionaire story.  After a certain point of financial accomplishment, true callings become incredibly apparent to the rich. The show seems to draw you into it's vivid and wide reaching scenarios.  Incredibly friendly to the ears, hearing European accents of financial glory living to find their next life or situation to assist are rare, but do sometimes happen.  Possibly even more alluring is the anticipation of discovery as to what is going to happen to who.  In any situation where people are helped out of charity, there is always a continually changing variable of uncertainty.  You really feel for the life of Teddy, attempting to help others at all costs, scoring points with his inner conscience, and progressing through life performing acts of selfless charity.

After watching all the episodes, your craving for new episodes of The Philanthropist will surface.  It's very easy to become addicted to this show, it genuinely requests the same feelings from you that are displayed in the program.  You feel like you are making a difference, no lie.  Give The Philanthropist a chance, you'll be glad you did.

The ratings of The Philanthropist did not score remarkably well, but with so many programs to compete with it's not surprising.  There are more new episodes scheduled for production, and as of now there are a total of eight episodes spanning one season.