Power play satire

Ageing media mogul Logan Roy (Brian Cox) has built up his global empire over decades and he runs a tight ship, but with his health declining, his scheming family are circling like vultures. This is the sort of dysfunctional super-wealthy clan in which, in order to curry favour with Dad, one of his sons buys him a football club – Hearts – only to discover that Logan actually supports their arch-rivals, Hibs.

Cox is great as the Scottish-born patriarchal bully playing off his awful power-hungry children against each other. He won a best actor Golden Globe for his performance in the

King Lear-like drama/ satire, created by Jesse Armstrong, of Peep

Show fame. Sky, from Monday