The music business is a lucrative one: new technology has been a boon to the industry, with the introduction of vinyl, tape and CDs generating huge revenues. However, the Internet is posing a threat to profits and the mighty moguls claim to be losing hundreds of millions of pounds because of pirate Internet websites. The Money Programme (Sunday, BBC 2, 7.30 p.m.) examines developing technology and its effects on the giant companies which dominate this enormous industry.
With house prices now spiralling beyond the reach of the ordinary buyer, Streetwise (Monday, Network 2, 8.10 p.m.) includes an item on joint ownership, and offers advice on how to safeguard your investment.
Raising the Roof (Monday, BBC 2, 8 p.m.) takes on Britain's top 10 builders in this week's expose of housing professionals. Undercover reporter Paul Kenyon secretly visits 20 building sites with a building expert and finds a catalogue of faults and shoddy workmanship at every turn.
On Tuesday Leargas (RTE 1, 7.30 p.m.) focuses on the ongoing battle over ground rents. Some 300,000 householders are still liable for these rents but don't or won't pay. Landlords, on the other hand, see them as a legitimate investment.
Tom Roche could retire to an island in the sun as a £2 million (€2.54 million) winner in the National Lottery. Instead, he chose to plough his money into a business he loves - inventing farm machinery. Ronan Clarke visits this successful business in Galway in Ear to the Ground (Tuesday, RTE 1, 8.30 p.m.). There's also an item on the Machinery Show in Dublin's RDS and a visit by David Kavanagh to the Massey Ferguson factory in Evesham, Worcestershire to see how the famous tractors are made.
Another tale of bitter boardroom battles in this week's Blood on the Carpet (Wednesday, BBC 2, 9.50 p.m.) - it's a Valentine's Day massacre with a difference. Guns 'n' Posies tells how Interflora introduced high-powered executive Doug McGrath to push the company into the world of business plans and booming profits. Up until then Interflora had been run like a family business, successfully managed by a board of florist directors. But when two women florists saw what was happening to their beloved company they called an extraordinary general meeting - just before St Valentine's Day - at which 1,200 florists turned up and voted out the board.
Every six seconds a Mills & Boon novel is sold somewhere in the world. With St Valentine's Day approaching, Imprint (Thursday, RTE 1, 10.10 p.m.) includes an item by reporter Keelin Shanley on the business of romantic fiction.
There's also an interview with one of the company's most successful authors, Sharon Kendrick.
