Inside the writers’ room with Jesse Armstrong and his team of ‘scruffy, shambolic
British comedy writers’• Read Hadley Freeman’s interview with Jeremy Strong
In early 2016, Peep Show co-creator Jesse Armstrong pitched his first solo project as a showrunner to
HBO. Inspired by an unaired screenplay about Rupert Murdoch he had written a decade before, as well as other influences – including true crime documentary series The Jinx – Armstrong created a show about “the nature of very rich people and media power”. The table read for the pilot episode of Succession, directed by executive producer Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice) took place on the day
Donald Trump was elected.