On Sunday Money Box (RTE 1, 10.20 p.m.) evaluates the options likely to be available to consumers with the deregulation of the telecommunications industry. Plus there's a look back at Wednesday's Budget.
Many big companies making branded goods see Europe as a gold mine. Britain in particular appears to have given them a licence to profiteer with recent court decisions preventing unofficial imports of their products.
It looks as if governments in the EU are siding with foreign companies against the interests of their own people. The Money Programme: Blue Jeans Blues, (Sunday, BBC 2, 7.30 p.m.), investigates.
The Clothes Show Live (Sunday, BBC 1, 4.10 p.m.) takes a behind-the-scenes look at the world's largest fashion and beauty extravaganza in Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre on its 10th anniversary.
On Tuesday Paul Whitehouse, chief constable of Sussex Police, returns to the beat for the first time since 1970 in Back to the Floor: A Copper's Lot (BBC 2, 9 p.m.).
For people who have often harboured dreams of dodging the drudge of the nine-to-five, Behind Closed Doors: A Good Life, (BBC 2, Wednesday, 7.30 p.m.) offers an option. Twenty-five years ago a group of people pooled their resources to live together in a large, old building in rural Essex. Having abandoned the "semi in the suburb" life, they believe they have found a better alternative to the consumer society.
