Depending on how strictly you define Brechtian, (Brecht wouldn't have) I think there' been a strain of verfremdung on TV right back to the early days: George Burns watching his show on TV as it happens, Dobie Gillis standing in front of The Thinker, addressing the audience, Ernie Kovacs (more Dada than Brecht, I suppose, The Monkees. Ken Fisher SUNY Oneonta