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Through it all, one executive survived the game of musical thrones: In October Bloys was named chairman and CEO of HBO and its streaming arm, HBO Max. FEATURES On Sunday nights in June 2018, HBO began airing Succession - a show about an aging billionaire and his retinue of suck-ups, yes-men, and bumbling courtiers that seemed perfectly tailored to the preoccupations of liberal viewers spellbound by the daily indignities and nepotistic excesses of the Trump presidency. "Even with HBO and Time Warner, and AT&T and Discovery, whenever the new deal is being sold to the shareholders and to the world, the logic, we are told, is completely compelling", Armstrong says. The next day Rich and his wife Alex Witchel dined with Richard Plepler, the chairman and CEO of HBO, and his wife Lisa at their house in Greenwich. [Extracted from the article] |