There's the annual drool over the wealthy in Ireland’s Rich List, a Panorama special on the effects of Brexit, Michaella McCollum, Florence Pugh, Kathy Burke – and a chance to watch The Good Wife again from the start . . .
Pick of the Day
Ireland’s Rich List, 9.35pm, RTÉ2
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Here's a show that's literally on the money.
Some people are obsessed with the lives of the rich. Others promote them as aspirational icons. That’s how you end up with programmes such as this.
If you're into fetishising the accumulation of wealth and glorifying greed, this will be right up your Ailesbury Road.
Presented by Richard Curran, week one of this year’s two-part show looks at the big winners and losers from The Sunday Times Rich List from Leinster and Munster.
The show will also be revealing one of the biggest business stories of the year and finding out who’s shot to the top of 'Ireland’s Rich List'.
Fascinating.
Don’t Miss
Horizon Tokyo, 10.35pm, RTÉ One
The documentary series following nine Irish athletes on and off the track as they try to qualify for the Olympic Games in Tokyo continues.
These are individual athletes who have gone through three years experiencing ecstatic highs as well as crushing lows as they try to qualify for Japan during a pandemic.
In this second episode, the focus will be on the trio of Thomas Barr, Orla Walsh and Leon Reid.
Panorama, 8.30pm, BBC One
Report on British businesses dealing with post-Brexit trading rules six months after the UK left the EU single market.
These same businesses are trying to maintain relationships with their European customers while also seeking new markets further afield, now that the UK turned its collective back on the biggest market on the planet, which is on their doorstep.
Sure, you could only wish them the best of luck, coping with a fire they started in their own house.
The programme features personal accounts from fishermen in Scotland to investor-types in the home counties.
New or Returning Shows
High - Confessions of of an Ibiza Drug Mule, 11.05pm, BBC One
Here's a look at the case of Michaella McCollum (above, left), a geographically-challenged teenager from county Tyrone who formed a relationship with a drug trafficker during her first trip abroad in Ibiza.
He persuaded her to assist him in smuggling drugs for his cartel contacts, and just a few weeks later, she was arrested at Lima airport in Peru with more than a million pounds worth of cocaine in her suitcase.
Vital Signs, 11.05pm, Virgin Media One
This documentary explores the impact Covid-19 will have on general practice in Ireland.
It examines the changes accelerated by the pandemic, and the aspects of family medicine that will remain vital to care in the future such as the doctor-patient relationship.
The Good Wife, 11.00pm, Alibi
One of the greatest TV shows of the 21st Century, led by Julianna Margulies in a role that will almost certainly define her career.
Even if you’ve seen the show before, it’s well worth another look. The cast is great, the characters are fascinating, and the story lines are rarely less than gripping.
This is the pilot episode of the legal drama where she stars as Alicia Florrick, a wife and mother whose life is turned upside down when her state attorney husband is involved in a public sex and corruption scandal that lands him in prison.
Pushing aside the betrayal and humiliation, Alicia returns to work as a lawyer at a prestigious Chicago firm to support her two children and, for the first time in years, takes charge of her own life.
Kathy Burke: Money Talks, 10.00pm, Channel 4
Here's a show that could be treated as a companion piece to Ireland's Rich List.
This is a two-part documentary exploring people's relationship with money, in which the actor, writer and director Kathy Burke meets people at both extremes of the wealth spectrum.
In the first episode, she is reunited with former comedy partners Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse to discuss creating characters defined by wealth and status, and meets a wealthy businessman who grew up in poverty as a Romany gypsy.
Life Is Magic, 7.35pm, BBC One
Illusionist Joel M, from Bangor in county Down, takes his conjuring skills to parties and events, helping to create life-changing celebrations that people will talk about for years to come.
In the first edition he meets the student formal committee at Our Lady of Lourdes High School in Ballymoney to help plan an epic trick for their formal dance.
I wonder if anyone has approached him to make the Northern Ireland Protocol disappear?
New to Stream
You Are My Spring, Netflix
A hotel concierge and a psychiatrist with traumatic childhoods form a heartfelt bond when they become entangled in a perplexing local murder case.
Midsommar, Netflix
The ever-watchable Florence Pugh heads a cast that also includes Jack Reynor in this hugely enjoyable horror movie set in Sweden.
The story centres on a grieving woman who accompanies her boyfriend and his grad-school colleagues to a remote Swedish village that isn't quite the idyllic commune it would appear to be.
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