Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are also working on a drama pilot for HBO

In addition to producing the project with Ferrell, McKay will also direct the pilot from a script by Peep Show writer Jesse Armstrong, whom the duo’s already tapped to write their border-patrol comedy. The pilot/series will explore “international business and the perils of power in the 21st century,” though the latter presumably only pose a threat to those without power in contemporary society. Of course, McKay and Ferrell could just go the route of staging dramatic readings of conversations from Keeping Up With The Kardashians—that is what they mean by “global-media family,” right?

Succession is one of two family drama pilots HBO recently picked up—the other is Kathryn Bigelow’s Mogadishu, Minnesota, which is going in a slightly different route by examining “what it means to be American among the Somalis of Minnesota.”