← Square Peg: the Dream of British Satellite Broadcasting

Season 1

7 episodes · 2016

  1. 1Squaring the Circle

    15 Jul 2016 · 20 min

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

  2. 2The Square-Off

    22 Jul 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. 3Hollywood Squares

    29 Jul 2016 · 21 min

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

  4. 4Square Eyes

    05 Aug 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. 5Out of Square

    12 Aug 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. 6It's A Square World

    19 Aug 2016 · 21 min

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

  7. 7Squared Awayfinale

    26 Aug 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.