TV Guide finds Succession's musical grandeur behind HBO's War

Director Ben Taylor and creator George Kay name film and television scores that helped shape their musical references.

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HBO's War Drew Inspiration From Succession's Score

Ben Taylor has a warning about borrowing television's grand musical gestures: "As soon as you bring the timpanis out, you're in trouble."

That lightly delivered caution comes in TV Guide's only new upload of the week, "HBO's War Drew Inspiration From Succession's Score". Asked by interviewer Kat Moon about television influences, Taylor singles out Nicholas Britell's Succession music and its ability to give family conflict operatic scale. George Kay adds a different kind of tension: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's score for The Social Network, alongside the paranoid, insistent music of Punch-Drunk Love.

It's a small behind-the-scenes conversation rather than a big cast game, and it has found a modest audience of fewer than 400 views. Across the channel, subscribers stayed unchanged and today's viewing is less than half the usual daily level. Nearby in film-and-TV coverage, Du Cinema had a much busier week, while Rotten Tomatoes also drew a larger weekly audience.

The channel's busiest individual uploads right now come from earlier interviews. Ruaridh Mollica's account of spending ten hours in a pool with Paul Bettany for VisionQuest has the most daily momentum, followed by Shaheen Jafargholi discussing a favorite scene from Tough Guy. A cast-and-director conversation about building a dance-movie marathon rounds out that group: TV Guide's interview archive is doing more of the daily work than its new musical detour.

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The videos drawing views on TV Guide right now

Ruaridh Mollica Spent 10 Hours in the Pool with Paul Bettany for 'Vis…3,890 views Heated Rivalry’s Shaheen Jafargholi shares favorite scene from Tough …5,134 views 'Best of the Best' Cast & Director On Building the Ultimate Dance Mov…13,471 views

The numbers

Here is TV Guide's week in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Du Cinema

1,690,378

Double Toasted

628,806

Dominic Noble

432,181

Sean Chandler Talks About

295,036

Rotten Tomatoes

225,460

TV Guide

87,242

PushingUpRoses

58,584

Full Fat Videos

22,861

The Flick Pick

6,759

subscribers

401,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

219,254,997

views per day

6,084

typical day: 14,290

first-day views of each video posted this week

HBO's War Drew Inspiration From Success…

248

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Du Cinema

502,000

Rotten Tomatoes

419,000

Dominic Noble

412,000

TV Guide

401,000

PushingUpRoses

350,000

Full Fat Videos

342,000

The Flick Pick

338,000

Double Toasted

320,000

Sean Chandler Talks About

316,000

As of November 8, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.