Succession: Show's creator announces show will end after fourth season

The creator of Emmy-award winning play Succession says the upcoming 4th play volition beryllium its last.

The last bid of amusement - which follows Logan Roy, the proprietor of a media empire, and his household - begins adjacent month.

Armstrong said helium and the show's different writers had been readying its extremity since 2021.

"I consciousness profoundly conflicted. I rather bask this play erstwhile we're editing - wherever the full play is determination but we haven't enactment it retired yet. I similar the interregnum," said Armstrong, who besides wrote Fresh Meat and Peep Show.

"And I besides rather liked the play wherever maine and my adjacent collaborators knew that this was astir apt it, oregon this was it, but hadn't had to look up to it successful the world."

The HBO series, which stars Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook, has won 13 Emmys, 2 Golden Globes and a Bafta.

Armstrong said HBO, which confirmed the amusement was ending by retweeting The New Yorker nonfiction connected Twitter, fto him person afloat power of erstwhile the amusement would end.

"HBO has been generous and would astir apt person done much seasons, and they person been bully astir saying, 'It's your decision'," helium said.

Armstrong, who besides wrote for The Thick of It and Veep, says helium has not ruled retired different shows astir the Roy dynasty.

"I bash deliberation that this succession communicative that we were telling is complete," helium said.

"This is the muscular play to exhaust each our reserves of interest, and I deliberation there's immoderate symptom successful each these characters that's truly strong.

"But the feeling that determination could beryllium thing other successful an allied world, oregon allied characters, oregon immoderate of the aforesaid characters - that's besides beardown successful me."

The archetypal occurrence of the last play airs connected 27 March.