Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness
Recently I've been watching "Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness" on PBS (KQED out of San Francisco, CA, USA).
In it Alain de Botton looks at six philosophers, Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and what they had to say about happiness and topics relating to happiness, such as love, pain, angry, thinking, and desire.
While not earth shattering, they are fairly well done episodes, cutting through the cruft of word-play that is annoying and makes philosophy concerned irrelevant in popular culture. At times the format gets in the way of the message, but in general I was happy with the five episodes I've seen.
Addendum: The ABC (Austrilian Broadcasting Corporation)'s DVD series includes the best description of the six episodes. Note the DVDs are PAL format DVD Region 4 (Aus), so will not play in most (99%) of DVDs players without region code hacking.