Playwright Lucy Prebble, one of the brains behind HBO drama Succession, says fans partly have Brexit to thank for the show, which finished on Sunday night. Prebble, a co-writer and executive producer, reveals in a foreword to the published Succession scripts that the programme started to come together on the night of the EU referendum in 2016.
“I was in a bar in Westminster after attending a free workshop about writing sitcoms. Writers chatted nervously as the result came in. No one expected it. I think Jesse [Armstrong, creator of Succession] recognised something in my politics and my sense of humour that felt familiar and could be useful,” she recalls. Prebble went on to pen three seasons in a big team of writers. “I like to think my job on the show was the only good thing to come out of Brexit,” she says.
