The show, created and written by Charlie Brooker, aired its first two seasons on Channel 4 in 2011 and 2013 before being picked up by Netflix for a third.
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At the very least, Brooker promised with a grin, this season of Black Mirror will be “more demented than Pokémon Go… while keeping one foot on the ground of reality”.
– Black Mirror will consist of six episodes (with six more to come next year).
“Nosedive”: featuring Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World), Alice Eve (Star Trek Into Darkness) and James Norton (Grantchester), directed by Joe Wright (Pan, which was not so great).
In other words: Oct. 21.
– Chef’s Table goes to France for the third installment and will premiere Sept. 2. Complaints poured in after 300 shots of penises were shown in the first episode of a show that is literally called Naked Attraction. It debuts Sept. 22.
Released on the streaming service on October 21, just in time for Halloween, the episodes boast top Hollywood talent both in front of and behind the camera, and promise the same razor-edged satire and gripping nightmare fuel.
– The romantic comedy Lovesick, previously known as Scrotal Recall, returns Nov. 10 for its second season.
The remake of the Norman Lear classic focuses on a Cuban-American family, with Justina Machado as a recently separated, former military mom raising her family with the help of her old-school Cubana mother (Rita Moreno).
– Captive, a new docu-series focusing on hostage negotiations from executive producer Doug Liman, premieres Dec. 9. Their selections wouldn’t just be based on them having a good peen: it’d also be about their fertility, the tarriness of their lungs, and the likelihood of them carrying a congenital disorder. Really! She’ll play Mama Llama in the animated series for preschoolers Llama Llama. Jon Hamm starred in the latest episode, a Christmas special so soul-crushingly bleak you’d need a thousand Christmas morning Scrooges to recover. Then fill your (existentially perturbed) boots.
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Brooker said onstage today that there would be no references to the “Cameron incident” – either Brexit or the pig, he said to laughs from the crowd.
