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The Philanthropist
There is a bird got into the template of the NBC is doing a fine sinking into poverty, the doyenne of the big chains. Everyone in our office the typical useless hopefully that character and that does not give, defying any logical law is always going up and not down. Already said Conan O'Brien in the great musical intro Emmy 2006: "the NBC executive who rose from Lost (series ended its direct competitor acquiring, ABC), rather than fire him, he promoted " . It must be that the figure whose personal projection is inversely proportional to the performance of the chain. 
Not otherwise be explained that the channel took so long trying to solve its relentless loss of hearing, "as it has been a lifetime", ie offering more of the same, instead of jumping into the pool. Do not assume that there has been a global change and that the TV does not know and neither the mother who bore her. They have been seeing them fall, barricaded behind the prestige of Saturday Night Live , while "the program of surprise boxes" (the Deal or no Deal America than in Spain was entitled Beyond you), the only thing that really worked for them, paid the bills. Acongojaditos have said goodbye this year to this profitable franchise of Endemol, as well as "Methuselah" ER , product mined to leave bloodless, like an old man who year after year will be delayed a deserved retirement.
During the nineties, a commitment to quality, and won an audience. They had what I had to have to give the green light to a number necessary for the history of television: The West Wing , which showed during his seven years on the air that the public put up with (and celebrated) sentences much longer than the traditional punch lines of sitcoms. Today, NBC is like the elite athlete, fifteen years after the record, lives to remember past glories. The proud peacock (the chain is well known for the shape of your logo) has been without a head, desnortado for too many years, and have come to tea together.
Is there to be myopic to assume that lost a series as bad as Joey is going to work just because it is a spin off of the most profitable sitcom history ( Friends ). The few risks that NBC has taken in recent years also have gone frog. Heroes is a good example. After a first season 
bright, comic Tim Kring has lost half of its viewers (myself included) trying to extend exhaustingly ridiculous nonsense frames. Hands up who does not have wished for death by pit katana to Hiro Nakamura sucker just because your story in the XVII century soporific had just once. The series is surviving on a dwindling group of supporters. The hearing continues to fall but the chain does not dare to kill this hen, although not of gold but cheap jewelry.
This week comes a gamble for NBC's summer prime time of the aforementioned own clumsy executive, whoever he is. The Philanthropist starts next Wednesday 24 at ten o'clock at night. It Framework 
Antonio de Rome , James Purefoy , plays a rotten kind of peel you choose to cross on foot (and barefoot) Nigerian jungle to deliver vaccines to sick children. Purefoy's character has made no promise to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, it's just a posh addicted to the adrenaline rush one morning woke up and realized that, like a mole untimely had developed a conscience.
The Philanthropist is like put Bruce Wayne ( Batman ), no bat suit to star in The Constant Gardener . A brilliant idea that aims to combat drowsy summer with sequences of fifteen minutes walk through the jungle foliage, without dialogue, and with a voice-over type light version of The Thin Red Line . I play the neck, before the end of the year, make it useless CEO.
