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How HBO Almost Lost Succession - Excerpt from It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO

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Money, personality, and ego came close to costing the cable network its most acclaimed drama since Game of Thrones. An exclusive excerpt from the media read of the year.

How HBO Almost Lost Succession - Excerpt from It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO Skip to Content Luxury Style Society Leisure The Scene Education Member Exclusives More 7 min read On Sunday nights in June 2018, HBO began airing Succession —a show about an aging billionaire and his retinue of suck-ups, yes men, and bumbling courtiers that seemed perfectly tailored to the preoccupations of liberal viewers, spellbound by the daily indignities and nepotistic excesses of the Trump presidency. At the outset, Logan Roy (Brian Cox), the founder and chief executive officer

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