Time Warner’s HBO Preps Murdoch-Like Drama Series

Hollywood Reporter: HBO has handed out a series order to the drama “Succession.” Starring Brian Cox as the patriarch of a family-owned media empire, the project is a rare serious effort from Adam McKay and Will Ferrell’s Gary Sanchez Productions. The premise has echoes of the Murdoch clan, with the central family described as “rich and powerful, but also powerfully dysfunctional.”