A real-life Greek tragedy played out at the dawn of satellite broadcasting.
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Season 1
2016
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01. Squaring the Circle
2016-07-15
What satellite TV is and how it came to be, and how BSB came together.
02. The Square-Off
2016-07-22
The arrival of Rupert Murdoch and how BSB had no plans at all for competition until they got some - which was loo late.
03. Hollywood Squares
2016-07-29
How motion pictures became the front for a war that would leave both BSB and Sky in critical condition.
04. Square Eyes
2016-08-05
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.
05. Out of Square
2016-08-12
After failing miserably to launch in 1989, BSB picks itself up and limps toward the nineties instead. Including the sixth BSB channel!
06. It's A Square World
2016-08-19
BSB finally goes on air! Surely all its troubles are behind it now? Of course they are not.
07. Squared Away
2016-08-26
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.