The cogs in Charlie Brooker‘s brain are at work on the next installment of Black Mirror.
The hit dystopian series is returning for an eighth season. Netflix confirmed the news on Friday by releasing a transcript of a conversation with Brooker, in which he beamed about the show’s three Golden Globe nominations.
The seventh edition of Brooker’s dystopian anthology series immediately topped Netflix charts upon its April 2025 release, accruing 10.6 million views in its first full week on the platform. The six episodes included a sequel to what is regarded as one of the most popular episodes in the program’s history: USS Callister.
The episodes landed Brooker a nomination for best television limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television, as well as performance nods for stars Rashida Jones and Paul Giamatti in episodes Common People and Eulogy, respectively.
“It was a pleasant surprise and an honor,” said the British writer-producer about the Globes recognition. “Obviously, I don’t experience human emotion, but as much as I can emulate it, I was pleased,” he joked.
Amid Brooker’s analysis on how season seven was crafted and which spine-chilling sci-fi moments still linger in his mind, he also discussed the future of Black Mirror, telling the streamer: “Well, luckily it does have a future, so I can confirm that Black Mirror will return, just in time for reality to catch up with it. So, that’s exciting. That chunk of my brain has already been activated and is whirring away.”
When asked about his describing each season as an individual album and what kind of tune the next one will be, Brooker responded: “It’s a useful thought experiment when approaching a new story. I’ll often think of, ‘Well, what haven’t we done yet, and what tone am I looking for? … Where does this track come on the album, and what musical direction are we going to go into?’ We’ll find out. [It’s] very unlikely you’ll ever see a Black Mirror hoedown.”
In an August, 2025 conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Brooker said he’s got “plenty more Black Mirror stories ready to go.”
“The way that technology is improving, there are new Black Mirror-y ideas you can see all the time,” he said. “I was reading the other day about people’s mental delusions being reinforced by large language models and AIs who chat with you, and you can almost immediately see several story ideas start leaping out at you. There’s plenty more horrible oil in the tank, basically.”
Brooker also teased a little about his new, untitled Netflix series, which he said is a “profoundly serious crime thriller” and “very much not Black Mirror.”
“There’s definitely something I’m not saying about it at the moment just yet. I can’t even tell you what it’s called yet, but it’s very much not Black Mirror. I can say that. It’s a very, very different thing. The most detective show of all time. It’s a deeply profound and profoundly serious crime thriller,” he adds, listing The Bridge, The Killing and Knives Out among his favorites of the genre.
The 2026 Golden Globe Awards are set for Sunday.
