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Two months ago, fans of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror woke up to some very unexpected news when word hit that a new season of the Netflix anthology series was set to go and that casting was underway This morning, they're learning who the first wave of familiar faces will be for three of the season's[...]

Back in September 2020, Cathy Payne, head of Banijay Rights (the distribution arm of the company that pretty much controls the future of the global phenomenon) was asked about the possibility of a sixth season of the Netflix anthology series Black Mirror and if series creator Charlie Brooker & Annabel Jones would be involved Though[...]

The series is written by James Bowman and Mike Hollingsworth, who's also executive producing with Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Paved the Way for Cat Burglar Cat Burglar is the second interactive adventure from Brooker and Jones following the 2018 live-action interactive adventure in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch that saw viewers deciding the fate of[...]

Morgan originally created the character on Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe and yearly Wipe shows on the BBC during the 2010s She spun off into her own show, Cunk on Britain, on BBC 2 With the new BBC-Netflix series, Cunk will set her sights on the whole world instead of just the UK. Brooker and Annabel Jones' company Broke[...]

Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones are offering viewers their sharp, satirical, and slightly over-the-top take on the past 12 months with their Netflix special, Death To 2020 With Laurence Fishburne serving as our verbal tour guide on the mockumentary-style project, Samuel L Jackson, Hugh Grant, Kumail Nanjiani, Tracey Ullman, Samson Kayo, Lisa[...]

With (thankfully) only a few days left in the year, Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones are offering viewers a sharp, satirical, and slightly over-the-top take on the past 12 months with their Netflix special, Death To 2020 With Laurence Fishburne serving as "narrator" on the mockumentary-style project, the special looks back on[...]

With their year-ending special set to hit the streaming service this weekend, Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones are ready to give the year the proper roasting it deserves (and deliver some laughs while doing it) with their upcoming Netflix special, Death To 2020 With Laurence Fishburne serving as "narrator" on the mockumentary-style[...]

As we learned earlier this week, Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones are back to give the year the proper roasting it deserves (and deliver laughs instead of chills this time) with their upcoming Netflix special, Death To 2020 With Laurence Fishburne serving as "narrator" on the mockumentary, the special looks back on[...]

Thankfully, Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones found a way to combine both their need to lash out at just how lousy this year's been and hitting us with some good laugh in their upcoming Netflix special, Death To 2020 With Laurence Fishburne serving as our "narrator" on the mockumentary, the special looks back at "the year[...]

It's official, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker will bring out Death to 2020, a satirical look back at this year with an all-star cast This includes Samuel L Jackson, Hugh Grant, Lisa Kudrow, Leslie Jones, Kamail Nanjiani, Joe Keery, Tracey Ullman, Cristin Milioti, and Samson Kayo Grant had told New York Magazine last week that[...]

At the end of an interview for Vulture, he drops the news that he's in Charlie Brooker's new Netflix project "I'm doing a thing tomorrow, actually Charlie Brooker [the creator of Black Mirror] has written a mockumentary about 2020 It's for Netflix, and I am a historian who's being interviewed about the year I'm pretty repellent,[...]

Last time Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror was on our Netflix screens, it was June 2019 and we were listening to Miley Cyrus perform the NIN homage "On a Roll" as her character Ashley O in an episode that's become more and more relevant the more we give up control of our lives to Alexa Since[...]

Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker used to write and present a BBC show called ScreenWipe, a TV adaptation of his Guardian newspaper column Screenburn It transformer into GamesWipe, then NewsWipe or simply Charlie Brooker's Wipe, eventually coalescing into an annual Wipe that we didn't get for the past few years It was generally look back at[...]

Including Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker… … and The Thick Of It and Veep creator Armando Iannucci… …and a few other people, principally journalists, who haven't created generation-defining television The Conservative Party have now changed their name and branding back But screencaps last forever…     Great Britain has just had our first national TV debate between the two[...]

So you've seen Netflix and Charlie Brooker's touching and hearbreaking Black Mirror documentary on her life "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" and are now the proud owner of your very own Ashley Too If that wasn't enough to make your 2019, we are now being treated to the official music video for 'On A Roll,'[...]

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[...]

In typical Black Mirror fashion, the episodes dealt with technological paranoia, and how we can expect our lives to change as we further our species co-evolution with technology. //Credit: Netflix Black Mirror showrunners Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about all three episodes, and it's a pretty great read We've broken out a[...]

"Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too" finds "Black Mirror" returning to a harder sci-fi bent than the rest of the fifth season of the Netflix series.

Hey, kids! You own everything and anything out there with pop star Ashley O's (Miley Cyrus) name and likeness on it, right? But you probably still feel like you're not doing enough as a real fan, huh? Well, turn those frowns upside down! Thanks to the fine folks at "Black Mirror Toys Inc." (a subsidiary[...]

Five days after viewers have their minds blown by the fifth season of Netflix and Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, content creators Rudy Mancuso, Anwar Jibawi, Maia Mitchell, Lele Pons, Hannah Stocking, and Juanpa Zurita are set to launch a collection of promotional fan homages to the anthology series titled Stories from Our Future[...]

With Netflix and Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror officially set to return on June 5th for a fifth season, the streaming service is partnering with Netflix América Latina for Little Black Mirror Based on the popular anthology series, the video series is comprised of three mini-stories connected to the Black Mirror universe[...]

Netflix and Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror is officially back for a fifth round beginning June 5th – and now the streaming service has revealed the titles for the season's episodes as well as releasing trailers for each Teasing the season with the ominous line, "the future we should have seen coming," the upcoming season will stray from past[...]

Less than a week after Netflix and Charlie Brooker teased its return, Black Mirror is officially back for a fifth round beginning June 5th 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[...]

Only one day after Netflix and Charlie Brooker teased its return, Black Mirror is officially back for a fifth round beginning June 5th – and now the streaming service is gving us an official trailer to get viewers back in the game Teasing the season with the ominous line, "the future we should have seen[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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 complex and maddening writing Bandersnatch was; in particular, the sheer volume of choices and combinations that went on a flowchart[...]

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[...]

How bad it gets for him depends on the choices you make. https://youtu.be/XM0xWpBYlNM This felt like Charlie Brooker crossing an item off his bucket list He gets to revisit his youth in the 1980's when games were a whole new frontier to all of us who were kids then Bandersnatch is his imagining an alternate history for[...]