Square Peg: the Dream of British Satellite Broadcasting — Season 1
About this season
A real-life Greek tragedy played out at the dawn of satellite broadcasting.
Episodes (7)
1. Squaring the Circle
Aired 15 July 2016 • 20 min
What satellite TV is and how it came to be, and how BSB came together.
2. The Square-Off
Aired 22 July 2016 • 18 min
The arrival of Rupert Murdoch and how BSB had no plans at all for competition until they got some - which was loo late.
3. Hollywood Squares
Aired 29 July 2016 • 21 min
How motion pictures became the front for a war that would leave both BSB and Sky in critical condition.
4. Square Eyes
Aired 5 August 2016 • 19 min
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. Out of Square
Aired 12 August 2016 • 21 min
After failing miserably to launch in 1989, BSB picks itself up and limps toward the nineties instead. Including the sixth BSB channel!
6. It's A Square World
Aired 19 August 2016 • 21 min
BSB finally goes on air! Surely all its troubles are behind it now? Of course they are not.
7. Squared Away
Aired 26 August 2016 • 25 min
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.