TV Squash
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TV Squash was a British television
British television
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 satire
Satire
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 show which was made by Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television
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 and ran for one series during the summer of 1992
1992 in television
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. Each of the six episodes parodied a day's television on a particular channel, squeezing the contents into half an hour. The weekday programming of all four main British television channels of the time (BBC One
BBC One
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, BBC Two
BBC Two
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, ITV
ITV
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 and Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

) was satirised in the first four episodes, while episodes five and six concentrated on a typical day's viewing on Saturday and Sunday on ITV.
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