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TOM DUNNE

Move over, Logan Roy — the Late Late succession is real drama

The Sunday Times

Ryan Tubridy is counting down. “Four shows to go,” he tells us. You can hear it in his voice: he sounds like a boy who liked school well enough but can already taste the post-Leaving Cert freedom. He is slightly giddy, a little more risqué than usual, giving more unguarded opinions.

He is a huge fan of the TV show Succession — and you suspect that, in the corridors of Montrose, they must wonder: is Tubridy’s farewell from The Late Late Show just a Logan Roy-type bluff? I mean, Succession premiered with Logan’s intended retirement on June 3, 2018. Yet here we are, four seasons later.

Successions are never easy, hence the drama. Both shows end on the last weekend in May. It’s impossible to