内容摘要："We have been humiliated, the Palestinian people are humiliated," he added.

"We have been humiliated, the Palestinian people are humiliated," he added.

Speaking at the Hay Festival, Armstrong says: "People start by saying, 'Why are you doing these rich people again? And it's a fair question. They're tech billionaires. Succession was about a big media family. And I think it's because I'm interested in power, I don't think it's about just wealth."Succession was very clearly about why is the world like it is, who has power?"

HBO's Mountainhead, starring Steve Carrell and Ramy Youssef, was made very quickly."We did it at great speed. I pitched it in December and wrote it in January... carried on re-writing it through pre-production and then shot it in 22 days, then edited it."We only finished (editing) about a week ago and it's on TV this weekend!"

Armstrong, 54, wanted to do a quick turnaround on the film to try to capture the feeling and pace of technological developments and society's fear about keeping up."The anxieties that we have about technology, especially AI, feel very present and move quite fast. And I wanted to try and write it in the same mood as you might be when you're watching it, so I was keen to do it quickly," he says.

"Another attraction for me was that I've never directed anything before and it made me feel less anxious to run at it and do it really, really quickly."

Armstrong, who cut his teeth in children's TV before writing for shows such as The Thick of It and going on to co-create series like Peep Show and Fresh Meat, said the inspiration for Mountainhead came from listening to podcasts."In one of my favourite darts we managed to fuse 85% tungsten at the back of the shaft with 95% tungsten at the front to move the centre of gravity forward.

"The concept being that a lot of players like a front-weighted dart but the players don't want to make the dart any fatter at the front."With the Luke Littler effect fuelling the junior game, darts is now described as being in its third golden age and attracts the highest viewing figures on Sky television, second only to Premier League football.

More than three million people watched 17-year-oldMr Huxtable said: "The youngsters have catapulted the game, we are seeing 12 and 13-year-olds throwing another level of darts for that age.