Tomorrow, Channel 4 profiles The Real Rupert Murdoch at 9 p.m., a portrait that gives an insight into the character of the 67-year-old media mogul who transformed an ailing provincial newspaper in South Australia into the largest international media empire in the world.
As the birth of the euro draws near, a row is brewing between central bankers and governments about the way European Monetary Union should work.
European Union central bankers are insisting that member-states should adhere to the austere policies that lowered inflation. But new left-leaning administrations, which have taken over in most of the big EU countries, are calling for expansionary policies to promote growth - anathema to the bankers.
The Money Programme, Sunday, BBC 2, 7.30 p.m. investigates.
Olivia O'Leary continues her series Living with the Euro on Sunday, RTE 1, 11.35 p.m. with this week's panellists Ruairi Quinn, TD; John Jay, business editor, Sunday Times; John Magee, editor, Business & Finance magazine; journalist Brenda Power and Michael McDowell, SC.
On Tuesday, at 10.10 p.m. on RTE 1, Would You Believe: Is the Celtic Tiger a Christian? takes a hard look at the reality of the Celtic Tiger as it deals out the cards to the winners and losers.
Over on BBC 2, 9 p.m. (Tuesday), the chief executive of Lambeth Council in South London leaves her town-hall job and her £700-million budget for a week as a new housing trainee in Back to the Floor.
At 9.30 p.m. on the same station Modern Times: The Magic Factory charts the transformation of Alton Towers, Britain's oldest pleasure park where £12 million was spent last year on a new ride "Oblivion", the world's first vertical roller-coaster.
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