Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror is returning to Netflix for an eighth season.
Brooker is busy putting pen to paper on the next set of episodes of the dystopian anthology series, which is now one of the streamer’s longest-running shows.
“I can confirm that Black Mirror will return, just in time for reality to catch up with it,” Brooker said. “So, that’s exciting. That chunk of my brain has already been activated and is whirring away.”
Brooker said the coming season follows his traditional thought process of: “Well, what haven’t we done yet, and what tone am I looking for?” “It’s a useful thought experiment when approaching a new story,” he added. “Where does this track come on the album, and what musical direction are we going to go into?”
Brooker did not give anything away about who will star in the eighth season or what kind of tone he will look to strike. He previously defined the seventh season to Deadline as more in keeping with older Black Mirror, while Season 6 was “‘Red Mirror’ in that we had more horror and less emphasis on tech-related storylines.”
Brooker was speaking 48 hours before he heads to the Golden Globes, where Black Mirror Season 7 is nominated for Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television, while Rashida Jones and Paul Giamatti both have nods in the limited series acting categories.
Last season featured stories including “Common People” with Jones and “Eulogy” with Paul Giamatti, plus Black Mirror’s first ever sequel to its hit “USS Callister” episode. Soon after the show aired, Brooker and his Black Mirror co-creator Annabel Jones left their Netflix-owned production company Broke & Bones following the rundown of their five-year deal with the streamer.
More information on Black Mirror Season 8 will likely be incoming soon. The show has now been on TV for nearly 15 years, having started on Channel 4 before switching to Netflix after two seasons in 2016.
Elsewhere, Brooker is working on an untitled detective series for Netflix starring Paddy Considine, Lena Headey and Georgina Campbell. That one is being described as “profoundly serious,” in an extremely tongue in cheek way. “The most detective show of all time,” Brooker told Tudum. “It’s a deeply profound and profoundly serious crime thriller.”
