Matthew Harris
Narrator (voice)
Square Peg: the Dream of British Satellite Broadcasting (2016)
Season 1
A real-life Greek tragedy played out at the dawn of satellite broadcasting.
Released July 15, 2016
Episode 20 min
None+
Keywords: tmdb.satellite-dish
Production Companies: Bob the Fish Productions
Network: Vimeo
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Squaring the Circle
What satellite TV is and how it came to be, and how BSB came together.
July 15, 2016, midnight
S1E2 - 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.
July 22, 2016, midnight
S1E3 - Hollywood Squares
How motion pictures became the front for a war that would leave both BSB and Sky in critical condition.
July 29, 2016, midnight
S1E4 - 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.
Aug. 5, 2016, midnight
S1E5 - 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!
Aug. 12, 2016, midnight
S1E6 - It's A Square World
BSB finally goes on air! Surely all its troubles are behind it now? Of course they are not.
Aug. 19, 2016, midnight
S1E7 - 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.
Aug. 26, 2016, midnight
Network: Vimeo
Episode Runtime: 20 min.
Season Runtime: 145 min.
Released: July 15, 2016
Last Air Date: Aug. 26, 2016, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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