Loosely based on the Murdoch family, Jesse Armstrong's Succession tells a story of the power struggle within a wealthy, media-company-owning family. The HBO series has won nine Emmys including two wins for Armstrong in the Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series category.

By 2017, when Stanton landed in the Succession writers' room, in Brixton, London, she had already staged nearly a dozen plays across America. But she was totally new to the TV writers' room. “Writing a play is by yourself,” Stanton says. “You get feedback, but it's yours.

The series is executive produced by Armstrong, Adam McKay, Frank Rich, Kevin Messick, Jane Tranter, Mark Mylod, Tony Roche, Scott Ferguson, Jon Brown, Lucy Prebble, Will Tracy and Will Ferrell. Armstrong also serves as showrunner. All three seasons of Succession are available to stream on HBO Max.

It sounds like the plot of the HBO series Succession, but New York Times journalist Jim Rutenberg says the real-life drama involving Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch and his children, Lachlan, James, Elisabeth and Prudence, rivals anything a screenwriter could dream up.