Tom on top?

Matthew Macfadyen on playing Succession's scheming executive

- SEAN MARLAND

DRAMA
Succession
Easter Monday, 9pm, Sky Atlantic

When Succession first appeared on our screens back in 2018, Tom Wambsgans seemed like a peripheral figure in the battle to inherit Logan Roy’s media empire.

But Tom showed he meant business by betraying his wife Shiv to side with her father at the end of season three, and it looks like the Waystar Royco executive could be far more influential than anyone imagined.