Square Peg: the Dream of British Satellite Broadcasting

Episode 2

The Square-Off

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

Episode 3

Hollywood Squares

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

Episode 4

Square Eyes

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.

Episode 5

Out of Square

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

Episode 6

It's A Square World

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

Episode 7

Squared Away

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.