‘Black Mirror’ Will Bring More Dystopia to Our Dystopia With Season 8

While the season premiere of the dystopia that is 2026 feels increasingly like we’re trapped inside a Black Mirror episode, Netflix has announced that the speculative fiction dystopian show has been renewed for an eighth season.

The news of Black Mirror‘s renewal was announced earlier today by series creator Charlie Brooker in an interview with Netflix’s Tudum; he playfully noted that its renewal came “just in time for reality to catch up with it.”

The news of more Black Mirror on the way comes in the wake of the show receiving seven Golden Globe nominations, a milestone for the series, according to Variety. Key among its seven nominations are Best Television Limited Series, Best Television Anthology Series, and Best Television Motion Picture Made for Television, with actors Rashida Jones and Paul Giamatti receiving nominations for their roles in season seven entries “Common People” and “Eulogy.”

While Brooker says both episodes are ones he is fortunate to have gotten away with making, he also noted that bringing the crew together for the “USS Callister” sequel episode, “USS Callister: Into Infinity,” was another highlight of season seven.

“I have lots of moments [throughout the series] where I also slightly think, ‘Oh, thank God we got away with that,’” Brooker told Tudum. “We did the ‘USS Callister’ sequel and got all our cast back. That was really amazing.”

In a 2025 interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Brooker teased that more sequel episodes like “USS Callister: Into Infinity” are in the cards. 

“We’ve done a sequel for the first time this season,” Brooker told THR. “We’re now looking at old episodes and thinking, ‘How could you revisit that idea?’ As long as it’s interesting, I’m allowed to make it and people continue to fucking watch, I’d like to keep making the show.”

During Brooker’s Tudum interview, he was asked about fan discourse he’s enjoyed from past seasons. His answer was more of an overview of how each episode in season seven will vary widely in people’s rankings of best and worst, more so than in past seasons.

“I always wanted each episode to feel like it had quite a lot of variety, even though obviously the subject matter, the focus, it’s gone through my brain, and there’s a Black Mirror-y tone to it,” Brooker said.

Brooker went on to address the sentiment of Black Mirror DNA and tone within its seventh season and how he wanted the show to find variety within that framework, saying, “But within that, we’ll do rom-coms, we’ll do space operas, we’ll do kitchen-sink dramas. We’re a relatively old show in the grand scheme of television, so the fact that the debate is still alive, and that people were fiercely debating which was their favorite, I think that really is the reaction to the season as a whole.”

He continued: “I sometimes say that we’re now like a band. Our very early episodes were all punk singles, and then we started doing occasional ballads like ‘San Junipero,’ or we’d do a dance number. It’s like putting together an album with a punk single, a disco number, a stadium-rock thing, a heartfelt acoustic ballad, and so on. It’s interesting. I find the debate interesting.”

While Brooker compared making Black Mirror episodes to making an album, he kept details about the show’s general tone for its eighth season under wraps.  All he revealed is that it’s “very unlikely you’ll ever see a Black Mirror hoedown,” whatever that means.

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