Nothing in Fox’s tv schedules final yr was fairly as thrilling—or, at instances, as profane—because the drama that performed out in a closed probate court in Reno, Nevada. Rupert Murdoch, the now 94-year-old founder and controlling shareholder of Fox Company and its sister firm, Information Corp, was attempting to alter the phrases of a household belief with a view to block three of his kids from inheriting management of the businesses on his dying. The high-stakes authorized manoeuvre was rejected. An enchantment—and thus a brand new season of morbid leisure for media watchers—is within the works.
