Some 820 millionaires have been created in Britain since the launch of its National Lottery nearly five years ago. Britain's Richest Lottery Winners (Saturday, 8.00 p.m., UTV) looks at how they invested or squandered the cash.
One of the presenters of Channel 4's live daytime show, Show Me the Money (1.00 p.m., Monday to Friday), Louise Noel, says she is not a good example of a stock-market investor. "My worst decision was investing in Tottenham Hotspur when they floated. I'm a fan and I let it cloud my vision." On Thursday's programme this week Mr Wilf Shorrocks, chief executive of the company that introduced bouncy castles, attempts to convince the team of speculators that it should invest in his company.
Zenotec is a typical example of the high-tech infrastructure that has sprung up in the last 30 years - or maybe not. People Like Us: Managing Director (Monday, 10.00 p.m., BBC 1) is a spoof documentary of an inept company which is crumbling at the seams. It began life as a comedy award-winning, BBC Radio 4 series.
The Isle of Man has had a huge influx of finance workers over the last 20 years some of whom have become "bank workers in search of an identity" and have started to learn the Manx language. Leargas: The Isle of Man, Is It Just a Tax Haven? (Tuesday, 7.30 p.m., RTE 1) finds out what price the island has paid for its non-resident bank accounts. What lies behind the image of grubby notes stashed in suitcases? Mr Donald Gelling, the island's Chief Minister speaks of possible independence in the future. Nationalist, Mr Mark Kermode, still fears domination by mainly English tax avoiders.
Our Century (Tuesday, 10.40 p.m., RTE 1) focuses this week on the 1980s. The collapse of communism; the rise of drug abuse and AIDS; fundamentalism sweeps Arab nations and pollution threatens the end of the planet - so much for progress.
Hip hop is a musical genre that has become a multibillion dollar industry influencing fashion, language and culture. In the first of a new series The Hip Hop Years (Thursday, 11.00 p.m., Channel 4) investigates its origins in the South Bronx in the 1970s.
