NBC is pulling out a lot of tricks in order to capture the summer, and one of them is eight-part series The Philanthropist which starts Wednesday, June 24th. Billionaire James Purefoy finds himself caught in a flood in Nigeria, and rescues a small boy during the effort to escape his flooded hotel. The event triggers something in Purefoy, mostly a great deal of emotional baggage left over from his son’s death a year ago.
When he returns to New York, Purefoy finds that something just feels wrong about his entire life, and he returns to Nigeria to try to help, and find the boy he saved. He discovers that not all things are easy, even for billionaires, but he is determined to make a difference… somehow.