Fourth season of 'Succession' to be last for megahit show

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<div class='embed-wrap'><figure data-feedback='fb:likes,fb:comments'><img alt='Screenshot from HBO Max YouTube channel.' src='https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/news/02/25/succession-0252023.jpg' ><figcaption>Screenshot from HBO Max YouTube channel.</figcaption></figure></div><p>NEW YORK -- Fans of HBO juggernaut "Succession" will soon bid a final farewell to the family business drama which will end after its upcoming fourth season, according to the show's creator.</p><p>"I've never thought this could go on forever," Jesse Armstrong told The New Yorker magazine in an interview published Thursday.</p><p>"The end has always been kind of present in my mind," added the show's screenwriter and producer.</p><p>"I got together with a few of my fellow writers before we started the writing of Season 4, in about November, December, 2021, and I sort of said, 'Look, I think this maybe should be it. But what do you think?'" Armstrong recalled.</p><p>Riding high on both popular success and critical acclaim, "Succession," produced by HBO, is a dark and gritty chronicle of patriarch Logan Roy and his children, a powerful family tearing itself apart to gain control of a media conglomerate. The first episode aired in 2018.</p><p>The show has won a slew of awards, including Outstanding Drama Series at the 2022 Emmy Awards, television's equivalent of the Oscars.</p><p>The series is fiction, but was inspired by media moguls Sumner Redstone and Rupert Murdoch.</p><p>Murdoch's News Corp is one of the world's largest media empires and includes the Fox network as well as The Times and The Sun newspapers in Britain.</p><p><strong>WATCH THE TEASER HERE:</strong></p><figure class='op-interactive'><iframe height='315' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/sWlURhM5P5Q?enablejsapi=1' width='560'></iframe></figure><div class='iwantbar'>Watch more News on <a href='https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news' target='_blank'>iWantTFC</a></div>

<p>"I got together with a few of my fellow writers before we started the writing of Season 4, in about November, December, 2021, and I sort of said, 'Look, I think this maybe should be it. But what do you think?'" Armstrong recalled.</p><p>Riding high on both popular success and critical acclaim, "Succession," produced by HBO, is a dark and gritty chronicle of patriarch Logan Roy and his children, a powerful family tearing itself apart to gain control of a media conglomerate. The first episode aired in 2018.</p><p>The show has won a slew of awards, including Outstanding Drama Series at the 2022 Emmy Awards, television's equivalent of the Oscars.</p><p>The series is fiction, but was inspired by media moguls Sumner Redstone and Rupert Murdoch.</p><p>Murdoch's News Corp is one of the world's largest media empires and includes the Fox network as well as The Times and The Sun newspapers in Britain.</p><p><strong>WATCH THE TEASER HERE:</strong></p><figure class='op-interactive'><iframe height='315' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/sWlURhM5P5Q?enablejsapi=1' width='560'></iframe></figure><div class='iwantbar'>Watch more News on <a href='https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news' target='_blank'>iWantTFC</a></div>

<p>"I've never thought this could go on forever," Jesse Armstrong told The New Yorker magazine in an interview published Thursday.</p><p>"The end has always been kind of present in my mind," added the show's screenwriter and producer.</p>

<div class='embed-wrap'><figure data-feedback='fb:likes,fb:comments'><img alt='Screenshot from HBO Max YouTube channel.' src='https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/news/02/25/succession-0252023.jpg' ><figcaption>Screenshot from HBO Max YouTube channel.</figcaption></figure></div><p>NEW YORK -- Fans of HBO juggernaut "Succession" will soon bid a final farewell to the family business drama which will end after its upcoming fourth season, according to the show's creator.</p>

Fans of HBO juggernaut 'Succession' will soon bid a final farewell to the family business drama which will end after its upcoming fourth season, according to the show's creator.

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Fourth season of 'Succession' to be last for megahit show

Fourth season of 'Succession' to be last for megahit show