The Series launches on march 13, 2026 , the documentary is a Dynasty: The Murdochs, in a series of four episodes in which he investigates the struggle for command of one of the empires in the media made the most influential people in the world. The production looks at the succession of Rupert Murdoch’s news corporation, an entrepreneur who has shaped the global market, in the news for over eight decades. Each episode is approximately 60 minutes.
Based on thousands of pages of court documents, e-mails, and text messages of the series, it reconstructs the conflict between He and his four children, Lachlan, James, Elizabeth, and Prudence — with regard to the control of strategic assets. Among them, it is Fox News, which was founded in 1996 and is currently the leader in the hearing channel of the cable news in the United States, with an average of 2 million viewers in prime time.
The dispute also involved with the News Corporation, the global conglomerate responsible for the newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal and in other assets in the editorial. In the final report of the tax reported in News Corp has reported annual revenue of $ 10 billion, reflecting the economic strength of the group. Industry analysts have estimated that the combined assets linked to the roman empire When reaching in the tens of billions of dollars in market value.
In 2023, When he left the presidency of the Fox Corporation and News Corp, and transferred the command to Lachlan. The decision has intensified concerns about the governance, succession and a corporate structure that has a direct influence on the public debate and in the electoral process.
According to the official description of the Series, the series exposes the ‘ devices in private” of a family divided by the power and fidelity. The trailer lays out the parallel with the Succession, drama, HBO is inspired by the dynamics of Murdoch’s news corporation, but stresses that this is the actual fact they have had a direct impact on the politics of contemporary life.
Directed by Liz Garbus, which is indicated at the academy awards, the film includes interviews with the journalists who accompanied him to the court of the family, as Jim Rutenberg, Jonathan Mahler, the New York Times, in addition to a former executive of Fox News.
With the debut of global confirmed, Dynasty: The Murdochs beyond the field of entertainment, and comes to the debate over the concentration of the media, and the succession billion dollar and responsibility for the editorial. When you re-visit the building of an empire worth billions, and it reaches millions of people every day, and the number raises the question of the inevitable: when the power of the states also defines the direction of political competition is no longer of family and history.
