TV highlights

'The Secret Millionaire' (RTE 1, Monday, 9.35pm) - Three very different Irish millionaires turn their backs on their day-to-day lives and go undercover in some of the most disadvantaged parts of Dublin, Cork and Dundalk. Their search, for genuine local Irish charities, brings them face-to-face with some of the country's most pressing social problems, including suicide, poverty, drugs, disability and more. On their journey, they find extraordinary Irish people working selflessly everyday to help people in their own communities. Each millionaire then springs the ultimate surprise when they give them thousands of euro of their own money and reveal themselves as a 'secret millionaire'. Moving and compelling, this Irish production of 'The Secret Millionaire' shows the incredible difference people can make in their own communities and how successful people can make a positive change. __________________________________________________________ 'The Saturday Night Show' (RTE 1, Saturday, 9.35pm) - Journalist and broadcaster Brendan O'Connor returns this autumn for a third series of 'The Saturday Night Show'. As usual, he will be joined each week by a panel of guests to provide an entertaining mix of lively chat, comedy and music. A sure sign of impending winter it may well be, but given how Ryan Turbidy's 'Late Late Show' seems to be losing viewers by the thousands every week, it will be interesting to see if this alternative can nab some of them the following night. __________________________________________________________ 'Spooks' (BBC 1, Sunday, 9pm) - In the last ever series of this acclaimed spy drama, the team has been left reeling by Lucas North's betrayal, and with Harry Pearce on gardening leave, Section D has a new leader. Erin Watts is acting head and she has brought Calum Reed with her, a brilliant officer and technical genius. However, Harry Pearce survives his MI5 employment tribunal and is quickly back on the Grid in the thick of the action. Buried secrets are unearthed when Max Witt, a retired spy and Harry's colleague in Berlin during the Cold War, is found murdered by an unknown assassin. Meanwhile Ilya Gavrik, Russia's foreign ambassador and Harry's opposite number in the KGB for much of the 1980s, has flown into London to negotiate a ground-breaking strategic partnership between Russia and the UK. Quality stuff, as always, and destined to go out with a flourish. __________________________________________________________ 'Celebrity Bainisteoir' (RTE 1, Sunday, 6.35pm) - The hugely popular GAA-based reality series has become a real favourite with viewers and, this year, it has once again attracted a wide mix of celebrities to take the reigns of eight established intermediate GAA club teams, all of whom are determined to win the title and bring home the Celebrity Bainisteoir Cup to their club and county. There will be a look back at the techniques used by previous Bainisteoiri as the likes of Glenda Gilson, Derek from Crystal Swing, Gavin Duffy, Gerald Kean, Emma O'Driscoll, Derek Davis and Breffny Morgan all revisit their clubs and recount the highs and lows of their days in charge. This year sees the following Celebrity Bainisteoirs in action: Gillian Quinn - Ballyporeen GAA Club, Tipperary; PJ Gallagher - St Patrick's GAA Club, Donabate, Dublin; Amanda Brunker - Aughrim GAA Club, Co Wicklow; Tony Cascarino - Killeshin GAA Club, Co Laois; Brenda Donohue - Kilcullen GAA Club, Co Kildare; Dana - St Michael's GAC, Lissan, Co Derry; Tommy Fleming - St Patrick's GAA Club, Dromard, Co Sligo, and Paul Gogarty - Oughterard's Seamus " Máille GAA Club, Co Galway. __________________________________________________________ 'There's No Taste Like Home' (ITV, Monday, 4pm) - Gino D'Acampo is on a mission to prove that when it comes to good food, there's no taste like home. The series sees the chef travel Britain in search of fantastic home cooks whose treasured family recipes have been passed down from generation to generation and helps them reproduce their historic dish in a restaurant packed with hungry diners. In each episode, D'Acampo meets three home cooks who each boast a treasured recipe that has been passed down through their family for generations. After learning the stories behind the family heritage dishes, he and the cooks take over a local restaurant where the amateurs must rise to the challenge of reproducing their treasured family dish in a professional restaurant kitchen for paying customers. __________________________________________________________ Movie Of The Week: 'The Departed' (RTE 1, Wednesday, 9.35pm) - Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson are directed by Martin Scorsese in this crime drama par excellence. As the police force attempts to reign in the increasingly powerful South Boston Irish mafia, authorities are faced with the prospect of sending in an undercover agent or seeing their already frail grip on the criminal underworld slip even further. Trouble is, the criminals have exactly the same idea.