Fox Considered Acquiring Rights to ‘The Apprentice’ After 2020 Election, Court Documents Show

Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch discussed acquisition of show that Donald Trump had hosted on NBC

Donald Trump appeared with his daughter Ivanka Trump in the Season 6 finale of NBC’s ‘The Apprentice.’ Photo: Mathew Imaging/FilmMagic/Getty Images

Soon after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Fox Corp. explored acquiring rights to “The Apprentice,” the competition show that Donald Trump hosted on NBC before he became president, according to court filings from Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation suit against Fox News and Fox Corp. 

Rupert Murdoch, Fox’s chair, and his son Lachlan Murdoch, the company’s executive chair and chief executive, discussed acquiring the show in November 2020, according to court documents released this week.

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