Sometimes Money Magazine (Pearl, 8pm) is positively ghoulish in its determination to ferret out bargains at other people's expense.
Today for example, reporters ponder whether shrewd investors can make a killing by snapping up the flats their more unfortunate neighbours have been forced to hand over to the banks after failing to meet their mortgage payments.
In London in the early part of this decade, repossessions did represent good value for those with the stomach to take them on. When the property market slowed, many home owners were faced with negative equity, it was all too common to have to give up the place completely.
Here, banks auction these places off, sometimes with discounts as much as 30 to 50 per cent. Yippee! Cheque books out boys, and let's hope the former residents take their bad luck with them, right to the back of the public housing queue.
At the time, it was hard to get sentimental about Kai Tak. It was handy, it is true, but scarcely glamorous. The shopping was, how to put it politely, limited, and the queues for passport control notorious. Now, when those of us not connected to the Airport Express can face a two-hour journey before even starting on our travels, those little details have faded in a rosy glow of nostalgia for The Way Things Were.
In tonight's Hong Kong Connection (Pearl, 6.50pm) friends of Kai Tak reminisce about what was one of Hong Kong's most important tourist attractions. No amount of award-winning architecture can compete with that awe-inspiring dive past people's windows that used to welcome visitors to our home.