(CNN)"Succession" drops viewers into the high-stakes world of running a media empire and all the top-secret deals, attempted coups and shocking scandals that comes with it.
The actors and creators of the award-winning series, which will compete for more statues at Monday's Emmy Awards, insist that the characters are inspired by a long list of family-run dynastic enterprises -- both past and present. Showrunner Jesse Armstrong said in one behind-the-scenes interview that the writers pulled from "famous media families like the Hearsts, to modern-day Redstone, John Malone, Robert Fitz of Comcast, Murdoch, and Robert and Rebekah Mercer, who founded Breitbart."
But of all the influences, the fictional Roys, led by patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox), who plays the CEO of media company and entertainment conglomerate Waystar Royco, seem to overlap most with the real-life Murdochs, the family of Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
