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The Benefactor
Season 1
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Sixteen ambitious contestants compete in a series of challenges for the ultimate prize of $1 million, offered by billionaire Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks.
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Mark Cuban
The Benefactor • Season 1 Ratings & Reviews
Newsweek
Marc Peyser
Hard as it may be to believe, [Mark] Cuban actually looks funnier, talks funnier and is infinitely more annoying than the Donald.
Washington Post
Tom Shales
Let's see -- how to make the world a more miserable and wretched place than it already is? It's a tough challenge, but ABC meets it with The Benefactor, a hideous and tedious imitation of NBC's The Apprentice.
New York Times
Alessandra Stanley
He makes Donald Trump seem like Sir Kenneth Clark.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Scott D. Pierce
As for The Benefactor, it's not bad. It's not real good, either, and it's certainly not original. It's your basic, run-of-the-mill reality show hosted by a billionaire.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
The Benefactor doesn't have any of the intensity of The Apprentice, even while it's a knockoff of NBC's hit show. It plays out more like a half-baked version of Big Brother, featuring a Big Brother who's probably not going to be a big TV success.
San Francisco Chronicle
Tim Goodman
The Benefactor may be the stupidest show this season. Maybe any season.
People Magazine
People Staff
Banishing this vanity project to the cancellation cornfield -- now that would be fun.
PopMatters
Dan Devine
When you strip away his rhetoric and flimsy efforts to transform banal activities like playing Jenga into "metaphors," what's left is... well, not a whole lot. No matter how much money he gives away, Mark Cuban will still look cheap.
Variety
Phil Gallo
How many ways can one show go wrong? The Benefactor suffers from an unclear concept, a lack of driven contestants, a boring locale, an uneven host and poor production values.
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