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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[...]

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[...]

Netflix has released the first official trailer for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, giving curious fans their first real look at what to expect - kinda'.

pic.twitter.com/slVeg3VPd7 — Black Mirror (@blackmirror) March 5, 2018 For those not familiar with Black Mirror, it is a British science-fiction television anthology series created by Charlie Brooker The show centers on the dark and potentially twisted consequences of modern society and the effects of new technologies Its an anthology series set in either alternate presents or near futures[...]

In the video, series creator/writer Charlie Brooker explains that the idea for Black Mirror came from the lack of one-off stories being told on television He saw the trend being for long series about troubled, but fascinating characters… which he was a fan of, but thought that there weren't any of those one-off shows you[...]

Today's trailer is for Metalhead, an episode written by series creator Charlie Brooker and directed by David Slade (American Gods, Breaking Bad, 30 Days of Night) The episode appears to be in black & white and stars Maxine Peake (Silk), Jake Davies (The Missing) and Clint Dyer (Hope Springs). The clip shows Peake calling someone for[...]

The series, created by Charlie Brooker, isn't on the list for December premieres, so we won't see any new episodes until after the first of the year — but that doesn't keep the streaming service from teasing it like crazy. The newest trailer is for 'Crocodile', which is about an investigator probing into the memories of[...]

Especially on a perfectly still child. For those not familiar with Black Mirror, it is a British science fiction television anthology series created by Charlie Brooker The show centers on the dark and potentially twisted consequences of modern society and the effects of new technologies Its an anthology series set in either alternate presents or near[...]

I was able to have a peek into the minds of so many incredible creators: Max Landis (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency), Kevin Smith (Clerks), and Charlie Brooker (Black Mirror) Each one of them unique in their processes, but similar in their passion for making new content Most of all, I realized how much they[...]

It's that intersection where the pace of technology outruns the ability of society to deal with it, and grim hilarity ensues — or horror, more likely, depending on your point of view. As creator Charlie Brooker just told IndieWire. "Usually if something is so horrendous that people are staggering away, I'm kind of like, 'Yay! Mission accomplished!'"[...]

The first episode of British sci-fi anthology TV show Black Mirror, by Charlie Brooker for Channel 4, is infamously gross. Spoilers below. Titled The National Anthem, the plot begins with the kidnap of a much loved British princess, as a blackmail threat is delivered to the British government It states that if the Princess is not to be killed, the Prime[...]

Or on your own black mirror on 4oD, whichever you choose. As writer Charlie Brooker explained in the Q&A afterwards, it may be bleak, but it won't be nearly as bleak as whatever Eastenders does on Christmas Day. Meeting actors from the show in the pre-show drinks area. Picking up a Black Mirror Christmas Cracker. Pulling it open to reveal[...]

Touch Of Cloth is a TV series parodying modern crime drama, in the same way that Police Squad did to police shows of the seventies and eighties. Starring

With hair. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Hz9sRDFGI[/youtube] A Touch Of Cloth was created by Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier, returning to the ideas of Police Squad and Naked Gun but applying them to the modern British detective crime drama And casting just the kind of people who'd turn up in those shows, such as its lead, John Hannah. Here's a few clips[...]

Alasdair Stuart writes for Bleeding Cool I mainlined the entire second season of Black Mirror in one afternoon last week. I did it partially because I

Charlie Brooker hates you He hates everyone He hates everything From his early games journalism to his TV Go Home parody, he has poured his bile on the populace, not so much with a bucket but with a sick-sewage sprinkler system set to max. And whether on his series of Wipe programmes, Newswipe, Screenwipe, Gameswipe, or[...]

We've seen episode 1 of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, and spoken to the man himself about it It's pretty angry stuff, and funny with it. The first trailer gives a good hint of how Brooker himself fits into this "contemporary spin on The Twilight Zone," a horror with black comedy about our media-saturated information age. This will[...]

New recruits training in Pakistan, firing a rocket launcher at an overhead American fighter jet, only to realise it was pointing the wrong way round and they blew up the nearby training camp instead. Farcical it may have been, but it was based on a true story. Anyway, the rocket launcher in question (sorry to break the[...]

The Daily Show already took John Oliver, so we were keeping our hand in a little, but it didn't really count. The closest was the occasional spurt of Charlie Brooker's Newswipe And at the last general election, Channel 4 took Brooker and teamed him with David Mitchell (Peep Show, Mitchell & Webb), Jimmy Carr (8 Out[...]