‘Black Mirror’ Picked Up By Netflix For A New Season

Netflix has picked up the hit sci-fi series Black Mirror for new episodes.

Netflix Picks Up UK’s Black Mirror

Netflix has agreed to produce a 12-episode third season of Black Mirror, the popular British sci-fi series that won an Emmy award and Peabody award.

The show’s first seven episodes — two three-episode seasons and a Christmas special starring Jon Hamm — aired on the UK’s Channel 4 from 2011 to 2014.

Netflix bought the streaming rights to the show’s back catalog in 2014, and has now announced that it will be producing a third season of Black Mirror. Netflix previously picked up other shows during the middle of their tenures, including AMC’s The Killing and A&E’s Longmire, giving them a second life online.

House of Tomorrow’s Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones, who executive produced the first seven episodes of Black Mirror, will continue to serve as executive producers and show-runners for the new episodes.

Brooker has already started writing the new episodes, which will begin production later this year in the U.K., though no premiere date has been set.

“It’s all very exciting — a whole new bunch of ‘Black Mirror’ episodes on the most fitting platform imaginable,” Brooker told Variety. “Netflix connects us with a global audience so that we can create bigger, stranger, more international and diverse stories than before, whilst maintaining that ‘Black Mirror’ feel. I just hope none of these new story ideas come true.”