an acclaimed satirical family drama series succession will come to an end with its upcoming season four creator jesse armstrong has announced armstrong shared the news in an interview saying that the fourth season set to premiere on march 26 will conclude the show theres a promise in the title of succession ive never thought this could go on foreverread alsoyou featuring the smoldering penn badgley is met with mixed reactionstrending at the halfway point in the top 10 list of tv shows today on netflix is you which the ott channel says is about a dangerously charming and intensely obsessive young man who goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by the first season premieredthe end has always been kind of present in my mind from season two ive been trying to think is it the next one or the one after that or is it the one after that armstrong said in the piece titled the end of succession is nearsuccession follows media baron logan roy brian cox and his four children kendall jeremy strong siobhan sarah snook roman kieran culkin and connor alan ruck as the siblings compete to take over the family media conglomerate waystar royco armstrong revealed he and his fellow writers had been planning the shows end since late 2021 and we played out various scenarios we could do a couple of short seasons or two more seasons or we could go on for ages and turn the show into something rather different and be a more rangy freewheeling kind of fun show where there would be good weeks and bad weeks or we could do something a bit more muscular and complete and go out sort of strong and that was definitely always my preference he added armstrong who cocreated hits shows peep show and fresh meat in the uk admitted feeling conflicted about ending the show i feel sad and i have thecircushaslefttown feeling that everyone gets who works on a production thats good and this one particularly so i imagine ill be a little bit lonely and wandering the streets of london in a funk and wondering what the f did i do ill probably be calling you up in about six months asking if people are ready for a reboot he added the fourth and final season of the emmywinning series will follow on from the events of the third season finale in december 2021 the sale of media conglomerate waystar royco to tech visionary lukas matsson alexander skarsgard moves ever closer the prospect of this seismic sale provokes existential angst and familial division among the roys as they anticipate what their lives will look like once the deal is complete a power struggle ensues as the family weighs up a future where their cultural and political weight is severely curtailed the logline read returning cast members include matthew macfadyen nicholas braun j smithcameron peter friedman david rasche fisher stevens hiam abbass