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Murdoch’s flagship hails ‘terrifyingly funny’ Succession, without a nod to the family who inspired it | Weekly Beast
Fri, 24 Oct 2025
The Australian names HBO drama the best TV show of the past 25 years. Plus: reporters in the spotlight at the White House
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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.
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