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Black Mirror is a British science fiction anthology series created by Charlie Brooker. The programme was inspired by The Twilight Zone and explores technology and its side-effects.[1] It began on the British television network Channel 4 before moving to the American streaming platform Netflix and has run for seven series between 2011 and 2025. There are 33 episodes and one interactive film, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Episodes vary in length between 40 and 89 minutes and can be watched in any order.[2][3][4][5] Actors rarely appear in more than one episode, though many instalments make small references known as "Easter eggs" to previous episodes, such as through in-universe news channels and briefly-seen text.[6][7][8] In 2025, the episode "USS Callister" received a sequel episode titled "USS Callister: Into Infinity", marking it as the first Black Mirror story to receive a continuation.[9][10]

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Charlie Brooker, creator of Black Mirror

The first two series comprised three episodes each and ran on Channel 4 in December 2011 and February 2013. After discussions for a third series fell through, a special entitled "White Christmas" was commissioned and aired in December 2014.[11] The following year, Netflix commissioned twelve episodes, later splitting this into two series of six episodes that were released on 21 October 2016 and 29 December 2017.[12][13] The interactive film Bandersnatch was spun out from the fifth series due to its complexity, debuting on 28 December 2018, and the delayed fifth series of three episodes premiered on 5 June 2019.[14][15] The sixth series was released on 15 June 2023 and consists of five episodes.[16][17][18] A seventh series was announced in November 2023,[19] and was released on 10 April 2025.[20]

Episodes are usually dystopian, often with unhappy endings, and many are set in a futuristic world with advanced technology.[21][22] The instalments have spanned a variety of genres including drama, psychological horror, political satire, and romantic comedy.[1][23][24][25] Black Mirror has been met with positive reception from critics[a] and has received numerous awards and nominations, including three consecutive wins of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.[b]

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Series 1 (2011)

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Series 2 (2013)

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Special (2014)

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Series 3 (2016)

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Series 4 (2017)

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Interactive film (2018)

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Series 5 (2019)

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Series 6 (2023)

For series six, Nielsen Media Research reported that Black Mirror was the most-watched television programme on streaming platforms in the United States during the week of its release, with an estimated 23 million hours watched.[48][49] In the following weeks it ranked second and fifth, with a cumulative 40 million hours watched.[50][51]

Netflix, which started releasing viewing figures after series five,[52][53] stated that 60 million hours of Black Mirror's sixth series were watched worldwide during its week of release. According to Netflix's ranking method, it was second to Never Have I Ever's fourth series by viewer count.[54] By the end of June, its hours of viewing reached 140 million, in addition to 110 million hours of other Black Mirror views.[d] This placed the sixth series 53rd in Netflix content across all views from January to June 2023.[53]

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Series 7 (2025)

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