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Square Peg: the Dream of British Satellite Broadcasting

Season 1

2016 · 7 episodes

  1. 1. Squaring the Circle

    2016-07-15 · 20m

    What satellite TV is and how it came to be, and how BSB came together.

  2. 2. The Square-Off

    2016-07-22 · 18m

    The arrival of Rupert Murdoch and how BSB had no plans at all for competition until they got some - which was loo late.

  3. 3. Hollywood Squares

    2016-07-29 · 21m

    How motion pictures became the front for a war that would leave both BSB and Sky in critical condition.

  4. 4. Square Eyes

    2016-08-05 · 19m

    The plan to get BSB off the ground before the nineties starts to fall apart, as fights break out over programming and the technology fails to arrive.

  5. 5. Out of Square

    2016-08-12 · 21m

    After failing miserably to launch in 1989, BSB picks itself up and limps toward the nineties instead. Including the sixth BSB channel!

  6. 6. It's A Square World

    2016-08-19 · 21m

    BSB finally goes on air! Surely all its troubles are behind it now? Of course they are not.

  7. 7. Squared Away

    2016-08-26 · 25m

    BSB and Sky teeter on the brink of collapse. They can only survive by joining forces or fighting to the death. Somehow they end up with both.

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