Succession

Dvd/blu-ray, Monday 5 November Peep Show co-writer Jesse Armstrong created this superb ten-part US HBO drama, shown here on Sky Atlantic, built round the fierce battle for control of a huge media corporation run by a Rupert Murdoch-style patriarch (Brian Cox). His offspring, played by Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook, Jeremy Strong and Alan Ruck, scheme against each other and him, in hugely entertaining and twisted style, proving that characters don’t have to be likeable for a show to work. And this one works brilliantly. HHHHH Boyd Hilton