After earning acclaim with Succession, writer Jesse Armstrong is tackling the 2008 financial crisis in a movie for HBO.

Did ‘Peak TV’ happen? As fewer shows are commissioned and budgets shrink, there are those that claim we’re now on the downward slopes of an experience that has lasted a couple of decades. Of course, it’s debatable as to whether we really have exited the golden age of TV era as some suggest, as we’ll only really be able to answer that definitively with the benefit of hindsight.

If that does prove to be the case, though, it’s beyond doubt that the last great television series of Peak TV was Succession, (pictured) the HBO drama about the squabbling family of an ageing media magnate. Jesse Armstrong, creator of the immortal British sitcom Peep Show, was the creative force behind Succession, and his unique palette of wit, sharp dialogue,...