Tv Hightlights
Small World will be broadcast on RTE1 at 8.30pm on Friday, December 2nd.
'Small World' (RTE 1, Friday, 8.30pm) - In the first programme of the series, presenter Kathriona Deveraux will take a look at the immigrant story that doesn't often get told - what happens when you go back.
She travels to Brazil to meet the people who turned the small town of Gort in the west of Ireland into a 'Little Brazil' during the Celtic Tiger boom. Many of those Brazilian immigrants have now returned to their hometown, turning it into a 'Little Ireland' in the middle of Brazil.
They have used Irish money to open businesses, buy farms and build houses and new lives. Among the many conflicted ex-emigrants, Deveraux also meets with Leonardo Gomes, a young teen torn halfway between Ireland and Brazil. At the age of 11, he was playing under-14 hurling in Gort and offered hope of sporting salvation to the local GAA club and was a star destined for the Galway team.
'Inside Facebook' (BBC 2, Sunday, 9pm) - Facebook is the hottest company in Silicon Valley, having gained 800 million users in just seven years, and is widely predicted to be worth $100bn if it is floated on the stock market next year.
With exclusive access to founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook bosses, Emily Maitlis examines the Harvard origins of the site and how Facebook wants to make sharing all kinds of digital content easier.
She questions Zuckerberg on why he believes there is no conflict between sharing and guarding the personal privacy of Facebook users, examines the strategy behind Facebook's spectacular growth with the company's COO, Sheryl Sandberg. and looks at the advertising system which allows precise demographic targeting based on personal information provided by Facebook users.
As the company attempts to move from massive popularity to massive profitability, the film examines Facebook's plans to make money and its extraordinary cultural impact.
'Scannal' (RTE 1, Monday, 7.30pm) -
They say that football is a 'funny old game', but Irish players and fans weren't laughing the night they were controversially beaten in a play-off against France to compete in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
The night Thierry Henry handled the ball in Paris is a night many will never forget. The Republic of Ireland team had lost the first leg at home to France in Croke Park and it looked like the tie was over - the Irish team's record in play-offs being dismal as it was. The fans travelled in hope more than expectation but, against the odds, the team put in an inspired performance, taking the lead through Robbie Keane and playing France off the park.
Ireland's 1-0 win meant the game went into extra-time, but 12 minutes in, William Gallas scored the goal that put France through. Few people remember Gallas as being the goalscorer, all they know is that the player who crossed the ball to him after a 'double handball' was the mercurial Thierry Henry.
'The Fight Of Their Lives' (ITV, Monday, 10.35pm) - Considered by many to be the greatest world title fight ever seen, Nigel Benn versus the American Gerald McClellan ended in such tragic circumstances, it has never been broadcast since.
Benn, a British paratrooper turned world class boxer, faced America's rising star Gerald McClellan, one of the hardest punchers in boxing history. Their lives - and those of many others involved that night - would be changed forever. A brutal, controversial fight would leave one man mentally scarred, the other seriously injured and the Benn and McClellan camps at war for more than a decade.
Movie Of The Week: 'Elizabeth - The Golden Age' (RTE 2, Friday, 9pm) - Cate Blanchett and Clive Owen again co-star in this sequel to the Oscar-winning original. It shows the mature Queen Elizabeth enduring multiple crises late in her reign, including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada and romantic disappointments. Blanchett is supreme.
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