Keeping the operational side of a company going while planning for change is vital for any growing business and Big Changes for Small Firms (Saturday, 10.00 a.m., RTE1), the second of six programmes, focuses on the day-to-day business of Horkans Garden Centre and The Travel Broker.
The Internet may well turn out to be the biggest money-making machine in history - both for legitimate businessmen and fraudsters. Bogus banks, fraudulent investment opportunities and credit-card scams are proliferating, according to this week's Money Programme Special: Web of Deception (Sunday, 8.30 p.m., BBC2).
The price of farmland in Ireland is at an all-time high and yet the number of farms coming onto the property market is at its lowest. For farmers trying to expand it is a nightmare with land making as much as £10,000 (€12,697) an acre. This week's Ear to the Ground (Monday, 8.30 p.m., RTE 1) joins bidders at an auction of 37 acres of farmland in North Co Dublin.
Britain's most downmarket tabloid grabs the headlines this week in Back to the Floor: The Write Stuff (Thursday, 9.00 p.m., BBC2). The series takes a trip to Manchester and the office of The Sport newspaper where the owner, David Sullivan, has never been a journalist but thinks they have an easy life. As if!
sokelly@irish-times.ie
