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Succession had a big night at the Emmys – including a win for Best Drama. Star Brian Cox is looking ahead to the HBO show’s future and is unsure if there will be a fifth season. The actor doesn’t want the series to go past its time and dissed a popular Showtime series – Billions.
Cox, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin, Alan Ruck, Nicholas Braun, Matthew Macfadyen, Peter Friedman, J. Smith-Cameron, Dagmara Dominczyk, Justine Lupe, David Rasche, Fisher Stevens, Hiam Abbass, Arian Moayed, Harriet Walter, James Cromwell, Natalie Gold, Juliana Canfield, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Zoë Winters, Jeannie Berlin, Alexander Skarsgård, Sanaa Lathan, Linda Emond, Jihae, Adrien Brody, Hope Davis, and Dasha Nekrasova star in the Succession series which follows the powerful and dysfunctional Roy family in New York City.
Cox said the following about the future of the HBO series, per Variety:
“I don’t know [if there will be a fifth season]. No one’s had their contracts renewed. Who knows how long it will go on? We don’t want it to overstay its welcome, like Billions; that’s past its sell-by date. That will not happen with our show.”
While Cox is unsure of Succession’s future, it’s highly unlikely that HBO wants the Emmy Award-winning series to end anytime soon.
The show was renewed for a fourth season in October 2021, and those 10 episodes don’t have a launch date yet.
What do you think? Are you a fan of Succession? Is it time for the series to end?
Since I am in middle of season 3 binge, don’t want it to end… but also don’t want a lame ending like Sopranos.
As good as Succession is, the entire premise of the show realistically prevents it from running too many seasons. When your show is literally about an aging billionaire, in poor health, deciding how to eventually leave his “empire” to his children, then logically, his health is going to continue to decline – as it usually happens with aging mortals, even the rich ones. So it would be wise for the producers to stick with a 5 year plan, and know how it’s going to end, obviously with Logan Roy’s death, and all the family squabbles & legal hassles that follow.… Read more »
Succession is a great show, I could see it going another season, there is still lots to cover
The only thing that would keep me from watching a tenth season would be bad writing/storylines. In this regard, the ensemble works, they just need to keep it interesting.