Logan Roy died in the third episode of the final season of HBO’s hit drama Succession. It was an episode beamed around the world in April last year, portraying a fictional family and the Waystar Royco global media and entertainment conglomerate it controlled in complete disarray.

In the same month, shortly after the fictional Roy’s demise, the Murdoch family started secretly discussing what would happen once their patriarch, Rupert Murdoch, died. It was no secret that Succession had been inspired by the Byzantine family relations of the real-life Murdochs, who control an empire running from conservative cable network Fox to influential tabloid newspapers in Sydney, Melbourne, New York and London.