Trouble at the Top

The story of the year Janet Street-Porter spent at Live TV, where her task was to make 24-hour live television at a fraction of normal costs. As the station nears its launch, new technology fails to work, pressures on the staff mount and tensions rise.

Series following six high-powered bosses in their first year at the top of a new business. This programme features the return of Freddie Laker, whose Skytrain airline went bust in 1982. With only 12 weeks to go until the launch of his new airline, he has no crew, catering or uniforms and his planes are still being refitted.

Gerald and Vera Weisfeld sold their chain of cut-price shops for £50m but then decided to gamble their money and reputations to launch a new kind of department store in Scotland. Shows the efforts in the run-up to the store's open

Jonathan Heynes, formerly of Jaguar, arrives to rebuild Reliant, maker of the Robin three-wheeler, a company that has gone bankrupt three times in five years. Heynes believes he can succeed, even with an ageing product and an outd

Champneys is one of Britain's most famous health resorts, a £350 a night haunt of the rich and famous. But behind the scenes Champneys is in big trouble, losing a million pounds a year. New boss Lord Thurso arrives to try to save the company. He finds too many managers, shabby rooms, and unhappy customers. By the time he's through, Thurso is three stone lighter- but how has Champney's shaped up?

Derek Jones has an ambition: to turn the ailing spectacle company Swan Optical into a multi-million pound sunglasses empire. When he wins a crucial order for several thousand pairs from a department store, the future looks rose-tinted and he is determined to meet it. But as the company team work on the order, they start to wonder if they have overstretched themselves

A year ago "Nightmare at Canary Wharf" followed Janet Street- Porter's struggle to set up a new cable station, "Live TV". But after former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie appeared on scene, Street-Porter ended up moving out. An update to last year's documentary revisits the station to find out how MacKenzie and the formula he introduced, including topless darts and weather in Norwegian, are faring.