The Money Programme (BBC2, Sunday, 7.30 p.m.) looks at whether the introduction of Individual Savings Accounts can turn the country into a nation of savers - more than a quarter of British adults have no savings.
The film industry is the thing dreams are made of and the Cannes Film Festival is the stage many of them are set on. Waiting for Harvey (Network 2, Sunday, 8.05 p.m.), a 90-minute documentary, follows four ambitious young film makers desperate to succeed. The Harvey of the title is the all-powerful producer and distributor, Harvey Weinstein, of Miramax.
What's the matter with Britain in the 1990s? Most are better off than they were in the 1950s, but depression is endemic. New Britain on the Couch (Channel 4, Sunday, 8 p.m.) finds out that economic success alone is not the answer to happiness.
Kate Humble continues her travels around Europe in the interactive travel show which is part of BBC's Webwise series (BBC2, Monday, 7.30 p.m.). The Webwise campaign aims to initiate people on to the Internet (www.bbc.co.uk/webwise).
Treo: Riverdance, Tradition and Market Forces (RTE 1, Tuesday, 7.30 p.m.) looks at Irish culture as a commodity in the thriving economy.
Merchandising companies score very well from the fervent followers of football featured in this episode of Obsessions (RTE 1, Tuesday, 8.30 p.m.). Football is as important to the five fans interviewed in the programme as their hearbeats.
Ambition to get to the top of the heap is a driving force as the Millennium approaches and Making Out (Channel 4, Tuesday, 11.30 p.m.) follows the real lives of seven aspirational twentysomethings from Nottingham who are determined to make it big.
The Irish railway system has had a troubled financial past and Ironing the Land (Wednesday, RTE One, 8.30 p.m.) looks at its history. It concludes with Iarnrod's chief executive, Mr Joe Meagher, unveiling some of its current spending and defending its safety record.