HBO’s hit TV show Succession, about the inside struggles of a billion-dollar family media business, ends with the upcoming season four. Still, the show’s creator is leaving it open for spin-off opportunities.
Key Details
- Business show Succession is HBO’s fifth most-watched show, following other mega-hits like The Sopranos (3), Euphoria (2), and Game Of Thrones (1).
- Succession is widely popular, bringing in more than 550,000 viewers for its third season, although the first season was the most popular, garnering 600,000 average total viewers.
- The show’s fourth season is set to release on March 26, with the creator saying it will be the show’s last season, but the door will be left open for possible spin-offs in the future.
Why it’s news
HBO’s hit TV show Succession focuses on power and infighting inside a family-run media business, similar to that of the Murdoch family and News Corp. The show has won the biggest prize in TV two times, bringing home the Emmy Award for Best Drama, among other prestigious awards, but despite the critical success, the show is calling it quits after the fourth season.
Succession follows the Roy family, the owners of Waystar Roy Co, a global media and entertainment conglomerate, as the family fights for total control of the company. It first aired in the summer of 2018 and has had three successful seasons bringing it to HBO’s fifth most-watched show, following behind mega-hits The Wire, The Sopranos, Euphoria, and Game Of Thrones.
Show creator Jesse Armstrong revealed that the fourth season would “pretty definitively the end,” of watching the Roy family, but he seemed keen on the idea of future spin-offs.
“I have caveated the end of the show, when I’ve talked to some of my collaborators, like: Maybe there’s another part of this world we could come back to, if there was an appetite?” he says in an interview with The New Yorker. “Maybe there’s something else that could be done, that harnessed what’s been good about the way we’ve worked on this.”