OSWESTRY’S Jesse Armstrong has confirmed the upcoming fourth series of his global hit ‘Succession’ will be the last.

The 52-year-old, who was a pupil at The Marches School, in Morda Road, before university in Manchester, confirmed the news to The New Yorker on Friday.

‘Succession’ follows a family’s fight over a media mogul’s legacy, and has been the go-to show for all TV fans over the last five years.

Armstrong, who also wrote Peep Show with collaborator Sam Bain, told the American title that he always had an end-point in mind for the show.

He said:  “There’s a promise in the title of ‘Succession’.

“I’ve never thought this could go on forever.

“The end has always been kind of present in my mind. From season two, I’ve been trying to think: Is it the next one, or the one after that, or is it the one after that?”

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He added: “I feel deeply conflicted. I quite enjoy this period when we’re editing – where the whole season is there but we haven’t put it out yet. I like the interregnum.

“And I also quite liked the period where me and my close collaborators knew that this was probably it, or this was it, but hadn’t had to face up to it in the world.”

He also told The New Yorker that it is possible to revisit the characters from the Roy family in a different show.

Succession stars British veteran Brian Cox as the head of the Roy family, alongside Jeremy Strong, Nicholas Braun, Kieran Culkin, Matthew Macfadyen and Sarah Snook.

Series four will start on Sky Atlantic on Sunday, March 26.