Wednesday, August 12′
THE PHILANTHROPIST
HAITI TV 14 V Air Time: 10:00PM 11:00PM
Teddy (James Purefoy) has come to the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti with his partner, Philip (Jesse L. Martin), to try and solve an almost hopeless food shortage. Philip, who was born in Haiti but left as a teenager, is locking horns with [...]

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Wednesday, August 5 
THE PHILANTHROPIST
KASHMIR TV 14 DV Air Time: 10:00PM 11:00PM
Teddy (James Purefoy) and Philip’s (Jesse L. Martin) college friend, Rhada Shivpuri (guest star Sarita Choudhury), asks for their help to delicately negotiate with both the Indian and Pakistani governments in an attempt to rebuild the region’s water system and reopen the [...]

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Wednesday July 29, 2009
THE PHILANTHROPIST
“SAN DIEGO” TV 14 LSV Air Time: 10:00PM 11:00PM
When charitable donations in San Diego are fraudulently charged to Teddy Rist’s (James Purefoy) credit card, Teddy and Dax (Michael Kenneth Williams) go on a manhunt to search for the identity thief, following a trail of receipts through fancy hotels, tattoo parlors [...]

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“THE PHILANTHROPIST” “KOSOVO”
07/22/2009 (10:00PM – 11:00PM) (Wednesday)
Teddy takes his ex-wife, Julia Rist (Krista Allen), on a journey as he tells her about his business venture to Kosovo, a country full of depression and poverty since the 1990s when the Serbian army attacked the Albanian Muslims, who make up the majority of the population.

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Wednesday, July 15 
“THE PHILANTHROPIST” “NIGERIA PART II”
07/15/2009 (10:00PM – 11:00PM)
Teddy (James Purefoy) heads back to Kujama, Nigeria, the scene of his philanthropic epiphany. He has opened an oil refinery that will help bring commerce to the small village. However, Teddy’s business and philanthropic plans are thrown aside when his respected friend, Doctor Chima Balo, is [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO, California July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is being released by Diana Campoamor, President/Hispanics in Philanthropy.
I’m determined to give NBC’s new show, “The Philanthropist,” a fair chance. Sure, I’ve seen the first episodes. Did it perfectly reflect the reality of the majority of the philanthropists we represent or work with? Probably not. [...]

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Wednesday July 8
“THE PHILANTHROPIST” “PARIS” (10:00PM – 11:00PM)
On a business trip to Paris with Teddy (James Purefoy) and her husband, Philip (Jesse L. Martin), Olivia (Neve Campbell) runs into an old friend, Isabelle. Reminiscing is short lived however, as Isabelle soon admits to being in debt to Bejan, a high powered Parisian man [...]

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Wednesday, July 1
“THE PHILANTHROPIST” “MYANMAR” (10:00PM – 11:00PM)
The Maidstone-Rist Company is outed by a human rights organization as having ties to businesses in Myanmar, also known as Burma, where there is oil and gas exploration using forced labor. Teddy (James Purefoy) decides the only way to conclude whether to continue their business [...]

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Wednesday, June 24
THE PHILANTHROPIST PILOT TV 14 V Air Time: 10:00PM 10:59PM
SERIES PREMIERE
“The Philanthropist” chronicles the heroic adventures of a billionaire playboy turned vigilante/philanthropist. James Purefoy (“Rome”) stars as Teddy Rist, a successful tycoon whose life is forever changed after rescuing a young boy during a hurricane in the Nigerian town he [...]

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Billionaire Teddy Rist finds new direction in his life during a business trip to Africa.

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