The siblings are still squabbling – and it’s getting dirty...

The second season of the blackly comedic drama about a media dynasty run by the fictional Logan Roy was recently nominated for 18 Emmys, more than any other drama except Ozark. Driving the plot is the question of which of his four scheming children ageing billionaire Roy (Brian Cox) will anoint as his successor. He has one – Connor – by his first wife, and three – Kendall, Roman and Siobhan (Shiv) – by his second, Lady Caroline Collingwood (Harriet Walter, near right, with Sarah Snook, who plays Shiv). Interest in the show, loosely inspired by the Murdoch family, remains sky-high, thanks in part to the recent BBC documentary The Rise Of The Murdoch Dynasty, the format of which clearly, in turn, owed a debt to Succession. Cox has said he hopes filming will begin on season three ‘asap’. Sky/NOW TV, available now