ENCORE: The Murdochs | James Resigns, Succession Returns NEW EPISODE | 87
Even the Rich
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4.4 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Rupert’s oldest son Lachlan may have won the Murdoch family succession battle when he became CEO of the Fox Corporation. But that’s not where the Murdoch drama ends. On this brand new episode, New York Times assistant editor Ed Lee joins Aricia and Brooke to unpack some big news from James Murdoch. Later, culture writer Hunter Harris gives an update on the new season of HBO’s Succession. Harris flew to Tuscany to interview the cast and crew while they shot the final episodes of season three.
Read Ed Lee’s reporting on the Murdochs:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/business/media/james-murdoch-resigns-news-corp.html
Check out Hunter Harris’s Vulture article about her time in Italy with the cast of Succession:
https://www.vulture.com/article/succession-season-three.html
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| 0:00.0 | Wundry Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of even the rich before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wundary Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. From Wundery, I'm Brooke Sifran, and I'm Ereia Skidmore Williams. |
| 0:19.4 | And this is even the rich. |
| 0:21.6 | Over the last four episodes, we followed Rupert Murdoch's rise |
| 0:24.8 | from his humble beginning as the son of an Australian newspaper man |
| 0:28.4 | to billionaire media tycoon. |
| 0:30.3 | And the real life succession story of the battle for control of the family business. |
| 0:34.6 | Now when we left you, Rupert's oldest son Laughlin had pulled ahead of his siblings James and Liz, |
| 0:40.1 | becoming CEO of the Fox Corporation and next in line for Daddy's throne. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah, but let's not feel too bad. |
| 0:47.0 | The other siblings still made billions off the sale of 21st century Fox to Disney. |
| 0:53.0 | Right, and if I learned one thing, |
| 0:55.0 | it's that the Murdoch Family Saga is never really over. |
| 0:59.0 | In the year since this series first aired, |
| 1:01.0 | there have been some new developments. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, like Ambi-winning. first air, there have been some new developments. |
| 1:02.6 | Yeah, like Ambi winning, yeah, just painted kitchens. |
| 1:06.6 | Yep. |
| 1:07.6 | So Locklin wins his father's twisted version of The Hunger Games, |
| 1:11.5 | but his younger brother, James, still has a seat on the News Corp board, |
| 1:15.8 | meaning he still technically has some say in the family business. But then last summer, James said, |
| 1:22.0 | forget about it, |
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