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With the release of the fifth season of Netflix's Black Mirror last week – with rumblings beginning when the episode information and teasers were released – came a pretty obvious question from fans: why are there only three episodes? In a conversation with The Wrap, creator Charlie Brooker and executive producer Annabel Jones – who[...]

Even with a new season only a little more than two weeks away, Brooker and executive producer Annabel Jones tavelled back in time a few months to discuss the origins of the series' interactive choose-your-own-path mini-movie Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. While your first thought might be, "That's great but I already know about"… not so fast! Brooker[...]

Netflix is now home to a few interactive show experiences thanks to Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and Minecraft: Story Mode According to a recent job listing for a narrative designer with a background in game design, it appears Netflix may be looking to create more interactive tv shows in the Bandersnatch vein. From WWG: Netflix appears to be investing more into[...]

Now that the buzz has settled a bit on Charlie Brooker's influential interactive experience Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, fans of Netflix's sci-fi anthology series can get back to their original past-time: waiting for new on when they can expect a a fifth season Well, we've god bad news and good news for you Bad news is[...]

First, there's a very good chance it won't result in you questioning your very existence or engaging in copious amounts of psychoanalysis (we're looking at you, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch) Second, there's even less chance you'll end up having to suck poison out of snake bite somewhere on Bear Grylls' body. The streaming service is going for[...]

With over 5-1/2 hours of additional material filmed, Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror: Bandersnatch offered up a series of choices that grew not just in importance to the story but also in moral ambiguity–choices viewers are still debating online as you read this All this while legions of Black Mirror fans continue looking to claim the[...]

Childrens' book publisher Chooseco, LLC has filed a lawsuit against the streaming service over – you guessed it – Charlie Brooker's interctive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch In a complaint filed in Vermont federal court on Friday, Chooseco alleges Netflix is benefitting from an association with its iconic "Choose Your Own Adventure" brand without securing the proper rights[...]

Some studios have begun creating podcast/audio drama divisions as a way of cultivating that next "big thing" in-house, like Endeavor launching Endeavor Audio. Netflix #12 Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Is it a good film? I don't know – but does it need to be? Now before you start grabbing the pitchforks and torches and chasing me into the town square, think of[...]

Netflix released Black Mirror: Bandersnatch last Friday, which means there is a very good chance you've watched or played through it by now Netflix is now taking viewers behind the scenes with two new videos that go behind the scenes in the writing and making of the story. In the first video, Charlie Brooker talks about how[...]

When Black Mirror: Bandersnatch was unleashed upon Netflix before the new year to praise and social media buzz for its "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style, one would expect actor Will Poulter to be enjoying the perks that come with starring in the ground-breaking project from Charlie Brooker But leave it to Twitter trolls to always find ways[...]

Some studios have begun creating podcast/audio drama divisions as a way of cultivating that next "big thing" in-house, like Endeavor launching Endeavor Audio. Netflix #12 Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Is it a good film? I don't know – but does it need to be? Now before you start grabbing the pitchforks and torches and chasing me into the town square,[...]

Netflix's Black Mirror: Bandersnatch was the most hyped thing this weekend The main character Stefan Butler is a 19-year-old games developer in 1980's Britain who becomes obsessed with making a multipath game in time for shipping How bad it gets for him depends on the choices you make. https://youtu.be/XM0xWpBYlNM This felt like Charlie Brooker crossing an item[...]

You've watched the movie. You've played the movie. But have you played one of the games from the movie? Netflix The answer to that last question can now easily be an affirmative, with Netflix's first live-action interactive experience – Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror: Bandersnatch – further blurring the line between reality and virtual reality with a real website for the film's fictional[...]

So it looks like the rumors were true: Charlie Brooker's latest Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is officially Netflix's first live-action interactive experience Directed by David Slade  (American Gods, Hannibal) and starring Dunkirk's Fionn Whitehead, the Black Mirror "special event" dropped early Friday morning and follows computer programmer Stefan as he adapts childhood fantasy novel Bandersnatch into a video game[...]

After weeks of speculation over what exactly Black Mirror movie Bandersnatch was going to be… Was it going to be an official start to Black Mirror's fifth season? (Nope A standalone film.) Was it going to have an interactive component to it – a "Choose Your Own Adventure" format – as was rumored? (Hmmm…) Was it going live on[...]