Black Mirror
- TV comedy drama
- Channel 4 / Netflix
Dark sci-fi fantasy comedy dramas about our collective unease about the modern world. Created by Charlie Brooker.
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Press clippings
Charlie Brooker on "Be Right Back", Black Mirror's softest, saddest, strangest episode
The series creator and writer on the madness of grief, technology manipulating our emotions, and the uncanny valley where those two ideas meet.
Olivia Pym, GQ, 6th December 2023Charlie Brooker claims Channel 4 'effectively cancelled' Black Mirror
Screenwriter claimed there was a falling out with the British broadcaster over the cost of production per episode of the Emmy-winning series.
Roisin O'Connor, The Independent, 28th May 2023Black Mirror Series 6 is going to have a big cast and even bigger episodes
The returning Netflix dystopian sci-fi series will boast the likes of Aaron Paul, Zazie Beetz and Top Gun: Maverick's Danny Ramirez, plus more episodes than its slender Series 5.
Sam Parker, GQ, 22nd August 2022As Black Mirror turns 10, just how well did it predict the future?
From chips - lots of chips - in our brains, to VR sex and Uber-style social media ratings, we rank every episode of the sci-fi series, from dystopian hogwash to shockingly prescient plots.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 26th November 2021BBC reveal poll of 100 greatest TV shows 21st century
BBC Culture polled 206 TV experts from 43 countries in order to find the greatest TV of the 21st century. The top comedy in the poll was British sitcom Fleabag at 4th. Also in the top 100 are The Office (9th, with the US version at 39th), The Thick Of It (20th), Black Mirror (22nd), Peep Show (42nd), Inside No. 9 (48th), Detectorists (64th) and Catastrophe (96th).
BBC, 19th October 2021The maverick appeal of anthology series
As the film industry grows obsessed with serialised franchises, TV has become more open to shorter, self-contained stories. Louis Chilton talks to Soulmates writer William Bridges and Inside No. 9's Steve Pemberton about the new resurgence of a classic TV format.
Louis Chilton, The Independent, 6th February 2021Hugh Grant almost played PM in The National Anthem
Hugh Grant, who played the Prime Minister in Love Actually, almost played Black Mirror's Prime Minister who has sex with a pig.
Laurence Mozafari, Digital Spy, 12th January 2021How everything went all Black Mirror
As coronavirus ignorance in Big Brother Germany draws comparisons to Dead Set and sci-fi becomes more and more indebted to Black Mirror, Adam White explores how Brooker came to dominate every aspect of popular culture.
Adam White, The Independent, 28th March 2020Euan Ferguson's best TV of 2019
Fleabag, of course, but also GameFace, Aisling Bea's This Way Up, Motherland - and that lovely, short sweet run, State Of The Union. Black Mirror as well, although too few episodes. There was sadcom too - don't forget Don't Forget The Driver, Defending The Guilty. And with Stath Lets Flats and Flack, we were laughing all the way until we suddenly stopped.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 30th December 2019The 30 best TV shows of the decade
Fleabag is the highest comedy in fourth place, in a list which also includes Black Mirror (7th), The Trip (16th), Detectorists (21st), Catastrophe (24th) and Mum (29th).
Ed Cumming and Fiona Sturges, The Independent, 2nd December 2019