Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
BRIAN COX: HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVE
Channel 5, 9pm
You certainly wouldn’t see Succession’s Logan Roy designer shopping for something “great and sexy” with a couple of influencers.
But actor Brian Cox does his best, even though he looks extremely uncomfortable.
“I genuinely don’t know what to do,” he says as Miami model and young influencer Caroline works on her hugely-lucrative image.
“Are you fuelling an obsession with wealth?” he asks her, but she insists she’s motivating people to work on themselves. Digging deeper into her American dream, he realises some of her life is just a facade.
Exploring the “other America”, Brian then heads to New York where he meets homeless people, such as Tyrone, who spent years sleeping on the subway.
Brian says: “There isn’t always a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.”
And the actor interviews Sam Logan, who comes from a wealthy media dynasty, to talk about how it feels to have the American dream handed to him on a plate.