TV tale of power, passion and publishing The shooting of a dinner party scene with Sir Frank Packer (Lachy Hulme) centre frame and, on the right and halfway down the table, Rupert Murdoch (played by Patrick Brammall). THE cameras have started rolling on one of the year's most anticipated dramas. Power Games: The Packer Murdoch Story will tell the tale of rival media barons Sir Frank Packer and Rupert Murdoch from 1960 to 1974. Nine commissioned the mini-series following the ratings success last year of Howzat! Kerry Packer's War. This time, Lachy Hulme plays Sir Frank Packer. A photo taken during filming this week has Hulme (centre of the frame with back to the camera) holding court at a dinner party, with Murdoch, played by Patrick Brammall, on the right of the frame, sitting halfway down the table. Australia's most powerful man, Sir Frank Packer, invited `boy publisher' Rupert Murdoch to a tennis party in 1960. It was an encounter that would forever change their lives, the future of their country and the face of the world's media," Nine said in a statement released with the photo. Howzat! creator John Edwards heads the production, written by David Caesar and Samantha Winston, Starring alongside Hulme and Brammall are Luke Ford as Kerry Packer, Alexander England as Clyde Packer and Maeve Dermody as Murdoch's second wife, Anna Torv. Heather Mitchell plays Lady Gretel Packer, Anne Looby is Florence Packer and Hamish Michael plays Bruce Gyngell. Power Games will go to air later this year on Channel Nine.