It’s not always easy to predict which shows will instantly become appointment television. A dark fantasy series based on a half-completed run of novels? Yup! A profane but sardonically humorous soap inspired partially by Rupert Murdoch? Okay, sure! How…
After digital flops, can Rupert Murdoch’s UK empire fight back?
The effort to break free of its print roots has been a long and expensive struggle for News UKRupert Murdoch’s costly gamble that radio might fortify his UK empire received a boost last week when the first listening figures for Times Radio revealed tha…
Spice Girl among stars to begin phone-hacking claims against Murdoch empire
Melanie Chisholm, Boyzone’s Shane Lynch and S Club 7’s Hannah Spearritt latest to allege voicemail interceptionA group of 1990s pop stars are among the latest individuals to launch phone-hacking cases against Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, as the scand…
Rupert Murdoch’s launch of talkTV is about opportunism as much as ideology | Emily Bell
Piers Morgan will be presenting a nightly talkshow in this new venture aimed at outflanking the ailing GB NewsThe human Marmite of British journalism, Piers Morgan, is about to be spread very thinly. He has signed a global commentary deal with Rupert M…
BBC inquiry dismisses Rupert Murdoch complaints about documentary series
Complaints unit backs makers of Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty, except over section on Tory ‘sleaze’ storiesRupert Murdoch has largely lost a year-long dispute with the BBC after he objected to a documentary series that “implied he posed a threat to liber…