Just thought I'd make the case for a place I lived for a while and think would provide a really good 50 minutes of footage. I realize that Latin America has been done a lot over the last few years, but I haven't seen in any of the other countries what really makes Panama unique, and that's the blending of five very disparate cultures in one place. You have the Latin culture being Central American, then the Caribbean people on the north coast, then all the Americans who've lived there for a generation or two because of the Canal, then all the Chinese that immigrated for reasons I don't know and now own every grocery store in the country, and finally a large merchant class of Middle Eastern people (some being among the most wealthy individuals in the country). I can't think of a single show anywhere else where you could have excellent typical Latin fare like pollo colorado and excellent ceviche, Afro-Caribbean style ox tails and goat, American South style barbecue and one restaurant that feels exactly like you're in Palm Beach and is a local favorite of the upper class, a 300 person dim sum house, and some really excellent Lebanese fair followed by a relaxing hookah. Plus there's even a couple great American style dive bars. Where else could you possibly get all that (except maybe New York)? Oh yeah, you also have beautiful beaches and great surfing, plus breathtaking mountains and rain forests. Also, my brother (who still lives there most of the time) owns a couple of 300 foot waterfalls about two hours outside the city. Seriously. Need more footage? Ok, another friend I have down there has a non-profit organization promoting local artists and musicians. Then I have another good friend who is a businessman/photographer/actor/knower of all things Panama who can give an excellent tour of the colorful local market district where his family has a shop. The final straw on the camel's back I'll provide is that the best gelato shop I've ever been to is located in the 300 year old colonial district so you can take in the Teatro Nacional, the Presidential Residence, and look back over the bay at the concrete, steel, and glass skyline of the new part of town that is rising higher by the day all while munching on any one of several dozen exceptional and often original flavors of gelato. I mean come on- that's pretty hard to top.