Murdoch’s flagship hails ‘terrifyingly funny’ Succession, without a nod to the family that inspired it

To mark the launch of a new culture section, The Australian has produced a list of the top 25 TV shows of the past 25 years.

The best TV show in the last quarter of a century, as curated by the national broadsheet’s writers, is HBO’s Succession – widely seen, of course, as being heavily inspired by the Murdoch family, the proprietor of News Corp Australia’s flagship newspaper.

The drama in the show even prompted Murdoch’s children to discuss their own public relations strategy for their father’s death , leading to a legal battle in a Nevada court . ‘We’re drawn to complicated people, not heroes’: Ashley Zukerman on Succession, Silo and playing ‘punchable men’ Read more

“Shakespeare’s King Lear by way of the world’s most torturous corporate offsite,” the paper’s summary reads