BILLIONAIRE Gina Rinehart has reached a confidential settlement with the Nine Network over the second episode of House of Hancock.

While the Nine Network will still be able to air the show “as per schedule”, it will have to include a disclaimer saying it is “fictionalised” and “agreed edits” will have to be made before it goes to air, according to orders made in the NSW Supreme Court.

It’s understood 10 minor edits will be made to the show, with details of the settlement kept strictly confidential.

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The agreement follows an urgent application for discovery in the Supreme Court on Friday by barrister Tom Blackburn who said Ms Rinehart had concerns the episode contained injurious falsehoods, was defamatory, and breached consumer law.

Ms Rinehart was handed a copy of the second episode to help her decide whether to stop the show airing.

Justice Peter Garling said Ms Rinehart was entitled to watch the episode as there was a real prospect the show would air statements that were not entirely accurate, or even made up.

But Nine Network barrister Peter Gray SC said material in the episode was already in the public domain and had been “exhaustively traversed”.

He said the granting of such orders would impinge on freedom of speech.

The Supreme Court had to take the unusual step of sitting on a Saturday to the resolve the dispute before the show aired.

The hearing is under way in the NSW Supreme Court.