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Fox Biz’s “Strange Inheritance” launches to large audience

Fox Business Network’s reality show “Strange Inheritance” launched Monday night and recorded the highest rated program launch ever for the network.

The series follows Jamie Colby as she travels the country speaking with people who have been bequeathed unusual inheritances.

Monday night’s debut of “Strange Inheritance” featured two back-to-back episodes, one detailing 1909 “caramel” baseball cards and the other, a story of two actors inheriting a $1 million estate from a stranger.

“The Black Swamp Baseball Card Find,” which aired from 9 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., recorded an audience of 289,000 and 44,000 viewers in the 25 to 54 age group.

“The Hoarder & The Actors,” which aired from 9:30 to 10 p.m., recorded an audience of 315,000 and 49,000 viewers in the 25 to 54 age group.

The 9:30 show delivered the network’s highest rated regularly airing telecast, excluding special events programming.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.