HBO sees Showtime’s Bns and raises with Succession: Of the many new shows being piloted this summer, one we’re eagerly looking forward to is HBO’s Succession (watch trailer; runtime: 1:47), which is coming right on time —just as Bns is starting to get stale. From the creators behind The Big Short and Veep, the shows stars the brilliant Brian Cox as an aging patriarch of a media dynasty and a stand in for Rupert Murdoch. He has to contend with watching his grown children descended like vultures on his inheritance with the same voracity and wit that he himself has fostered in them. If a NYT review / interview with creators Jesse Armstrong and Adam McKay is anything to go by, this promises to be more than just a show about Bnaires and a knockoff of prime time soaps. Instead, they plan to move it in the directions of television family greats like the Sopranos (tagline: If one family doesn’t get you, the other one will). The best part: The show debuts this coming Sunday.