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Netflix’s “Black Mirror” returns to the Emmy Awards after a four-year break with its sixth season that premiered back in June 2023. The trajectory of the Charlie Brooker anthology series at the Emmys has been a tumultuous journey, particularly in recent years. The science-fiction dystopia used to dominate the limited/movie genre, winning Best Television Movie for three consecutive years at its height, before the Television Academy ruled that it must compete for the drama categories for its fifth season in 2020, ending its streak. Then the following year, the top category for limited series was changed to Best Limited or Anthology Series, placing “Black Mirror” back into the genre, but in the more competitive limited series race rather than the standalone television movies.

Despite the many radical switches, the program has managed an impressive eight wins out of 14 nominations overall. With its new string of six anthology episodes that star various actors including Salma Hayek,...

The Best Drama Writer category at Sunday’s 2024 BAFTA TV Crafts Awards was a pretty stacked one. “Black Mirror” creator Charlie Brooker was nominated with “Ms. Marvel” creator Bisha K. Ali for their work on “Black Mirror: Demon 79” while British favourite Sally Wainwright was cited for “Happy Valley,” a critical darling over here in the UK. Sarah Phelps was also nominated for “The Sixth Commandment” while Emmy-winner Jesse Armstrong was recognized for his work on awards-juggernaut “Succession.”

We spoke to Armstrong on the red carpet at the Craft Awards, which were held at The Brewery in East London. Armstrong was keen to point out the strength of his fellow nominees and how this category felt like a particularly impressive one, while he said he was grateful that his American show was recognized by the British BAFTAs.

“We’re an American show made by HBO so to be here with my British peers is really lovely,...

Netflix’s anthology series “Black Mirror” has a pretty impressive BAFTA record, amassing a total of 24 nominations at both the BAFTA TV Awards and the BAFTA TV Craft Awards since 2012. Like the Creative Arts Emmys, the Craft Awards are dedicated to honoring the below-the-line categories. This year’s Craft Awards, which were just held on Sunday, added to the BAFTA record of “Black Mirror” by awarding them five nominations and two victories (more on those wins later).

Specifically, it was the fifth and final episode of the sixth season of “Black Mirror,” “Demon 79” that was nominated. We caught up with several key creatives behind this episode when we attended Sunday’s Craft Awards, which were hosted at the Brewery in East London by British documentarian and TV host Stacey Dooley. Firstly, we spoke to “Black Mirror” creator Charlie Brooker and his co-writer on “Demon 79” Bisha K. Ali, who was the...

“Black Mirror,” “Silo” and “The Last of Us” were among winners at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards on Sunday night in London.

“Black Mirror” Season 6 was among a handful of shows to take home two awards, with creator Charlie Brooker and writer Bisha K Ali winning in the drama writer category while the show also won best photography and lighting in fiction category for the episode “Demon 79.”

The awards were a win for Apple TV+ with “Silo” and “Slow Horses” also each taking home two awards, the former for original music in fiction and production design and the latter for sound in fiction and editing in fiction.

Meanwhile “The Last of Us” director Peter Hoar took home an award for best fiction director.

Period drama “The Great” also picked up a gong thanks to costume designer Sharon Long.

The awards were hosted by Stacey Dooley and guest presenters included Katie Piper and Tanya Moodie.

The BAFTA TV Craft Awards were handed out at the Brewery in East London on Sunday, April 28. The Craft Awards, like the Creative Arts Emmy, are dedicated to below-the-line categories with a dozen devoted to fictional programming, another six to factual, and four are in a combined field to make 22 categories overall. The main TV awards ceremony will commence on May 12 but, for now, scroll down for the full list of Craft Awards winners.

Fiction

Costume Design

“The Crown” – Netflix

“Silo” – Apple TV+

“Demon 79 (Black Mirror)” – Netflix

“The Great” – Lionsgate+ — Winner

Director (Fiction)

Joseph Bullman, “Partygate” – Channel 4

Lewis Arnold, “The Long Shadows” – ITV1

Peter Hoar, “The Last of Us” – HBO/Sky Atlantic — Winner

William Stefan Smith, “Top Boy” – Netflix

Editing (Fiction)

“Time” – BBC

“Happy Valley” – BBC

“Slow Horses” (episode 1) – Apple TV+ — Winner

“Slow Horses” (episode 6) – Apple TV+

Emerging Talent (Fiction)

Andrew Bogle (writer), “Kirkmoore Fudge Park” – BBC

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BAFTA has announced the winners of the BAFTA Television Craft Awards, presented at a ceremony held on Sunday night in London. The awards celebrate the creativity, skill, and craft of behind-the-scenes television talent and the best programs of 2023.

The following won two BAFTAs each:

Charlie Brooker and Bisha K Ali won the Writer Drama category and Stephan Pehrsson won for Photography & Lighting Fiction for Demon 79 (Black Mirror). Nikki Parsons, Ollie Bartlett and Richard Valentine won the Director: Multi-camera category, and Julio Himede, Tim Routledge, Kojo Samuel, Michael Sharp and Dan Shipton won Entertainment Craft Team for Eurovision Song Contest 2023. The Editing Team behind Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland won Editing: Factual and the documentary’s composer Simon Russell won Original Music: Factual. Atli Örvarsson won Original Music: Fiction and Gavin Bocquet and Amanda Bernstein won Production Design for their work on Silo. The Sound Team behind Slow Horses won Sound: Fiction,...

Black Mirror, The Last of Us, and Slow Horses were among the winners of the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2024, which were handed out in London on Sunday.

Silo, The Witcher, coverage of the coronation of King Charles III and the Eurovision Song Contest were also among the winners.

The craft award for best drama writer went to Charlie Brooker and Bisha K. Ali for Black Mirror episode “Demon 79.” Peter Hoar won the best director in fiction honor for his work on The Last of Us.

The ceremony, celebrating the best behind-the-scenes TV talent of 2023, was held at The Brewery in the British capital, an 18th-century brewery recast as an events venue.

HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon and the BBC/AMC medical comedy-drama This Is Going to Hurt won the most honors at the 2023 BAFTA TV Craft Awards.

There are more U.K. TV awards to be handed out soon.

Exclusive: The CAA agent who brokered the sale of Dreaming Whilst Black to A24 is to head up Emily in Paris producer Jax Media’s UK division.

Katie Gahamire joins the LA outfit’s London hub as Creative Director, replacing Molly Seymour, who recently moved to BBC Studios. Jax has also signed former Disney Star exec Hussain Casey-Ahmed as Production Executive.

The hires will help Imagine Entertainment-owned Jax expand its UK originals, alongside producing U.S. projects from the UK. Since launch, Jax UK commissions have included Channel 4’s Simon Bird-starrer Everyone Else Burns, which was picked up by The CW and has been recommissioned for a second season, and BBC Three short form show Peck Eds. The hub also made Clem Garritty’s Showtime pilot Jonah Kills.

Gahamire has spent the past six years working across the television and comedy departments at CAA, where she helped...

The downside to the now-inoperative Marvel Television was that its offerings were exhaustively inconsistent in quality. Would you get a mature, nuanced examination of topics like systemic corruption, religious faith, and personal trauma like in "Daredevil"? Or would you get a clumsy mashup of "Succession"-style dynasty drama and white savior tropes like in "Iron Fist"? One could never be too sure. But while the lows were especially low, the highs also tended to be higher than the Marvel Cinematic Universe's films.

Funnily enough, that trend has only continued since Marvel Television was restructured and folded into Marvel Studios. The McU's Disney+ shows have been all over the board so far, with the added wrinkle that most of them are woven deeper into the tapestry of the franchise's greater mythology and, as such, are harder for the McU's movies to ignore -- as we saw when "The Marvels" had to...

BAFTA announced its TV award nominations today with Netflix’s “The Crown” leading the way with eight nominations. Another Netflix show, “Demon 79 (Black Mirror),” came in second with seven nominations while BBC’s “Happy Valley,” Apple TV’s “Slow Horses,” and BBC’s “The Sixth Commandment” all snagged six bids apiece.

Several US shows did well, too, with HBO’s “The Last of Us” and “Succession” each receiving five nominations — the same as ITV’s drama “The Long Shadow.” The BBC documentary “Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland” and “The Eurovision Song Contest 2023” each received four bids.

“The Crown” was nominated in all the big categories, including Best Drama Series, Actor for Dominic West, and Supporting Actor for Salim Daw. It also received two Supporting Actress nominations — Lesley Manville and SAG winner Elizabeth Debicki.

The other Best Drama Series nominees are “The Gold,” “Top Boy,” and “Slow Horses.” The...

The BAFTA TV Awards nominations are out for 2024 and, while Netflix is winning headlines after strong showings for The Crown and Black Mirror, there were some snubs and surprises.

Black Mirror’s strong showing is perhaps among the eyebrow-raisers after Charlie Brooker’s dystopian anthology series received mixed reviews and has not exactly been generating awards buzz.

The Netflix drama, now in its sixth season, garnered seven nominations for Demon 79, five of which were in the BAFTA Television Craft Awards, including best drama writer for Brooker and Bisha K. Ali.

The episode, in which a demon instructs a mild-mannered sales assistant to go on a killing spree, is up for best limited drama, while star Anjana Vasan is a surprise runner in the leading actress race.

Born in India, Vasan’s inclusion in the category marks a departure from last year, when there was controversy over the all-white leading actress nominations,...

Iman Vellani is a movie star, a gravitational field in human form who commands attention the moment she appears on-screen. That much was blindingly obvious as early as the premiere of the Disney+ series "Ms. Marvel," one of three distinct and mostly unconnected installments of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that "The Marvels" is attempting to pay off. The decision to forego a straightforward sequel for this latest blockbuster and instead push the chips all the way in on yet another shared-universe crossover has always felt inevitable -- this is a movie that literally shares the name of its own brand, after all. But Kamala Khan was a rare exception to that rule. Refreshingly, a talented and character-focused creative team (led by Bisha K. Ali) infused the journey of a young Muslim girl taking her first steps towards heroism with the cultural import, nuanced interiority, and sense of wide-eyed wonder that's all too lacking these days.

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Loki has been on a journey. From would-be royal assassin and usurper, to attempted Earth conqueror, to redemption, to death, to that death turning out to be fake, to a second redemptive arc, to actual death, all the way back to attempted Earth conqueror again, and then, finally, along one last redemptive arc in season one of the Disney+ series, Loki.

But there is always a challenge when a character shifts from villain to antihero to straight-up hero. Part of Loki’s appeal has always been that he is a loveable bastard. So now that Loki has gone full hero, where is there for him to go next?

“Loki has clearly changed over the course of that first season, and he knows he’s changed,” says Kevin Wright, co-executive producer on Loki seasons one and two.

“Black Mirror” isn’t just about the dangers of technology, according to creator Charlie Brooker.

The Netflix showrunner addressed the ongoing themes of the futuristic series, specifically with the Season 6 tonal pivot with central stories warning audiences about the pitfalls of tech.

“It was definitely a conscious decision to slightly upend what the show is,” Brooker told Games Radar. “It was interesting to kind of reset things in that way. It was a palate cleanser, and it means that you’re then approaching all the other episodes from a slightly different perspective.”

Brooker added, “There was a slight danger that people were bracketing [the series] as the ‘tech is bad’ show – and I found that a bit frustrating partly because I always felt like, ‘Well the show isn’t saying tech is bad, the show is saying people are fucked up’. So, you know, ‘Get it right!'”

Brooker pointed to the...

This article contains spoilers for the Black Mirror season 6 episode “Demon 79.”

When Anjana Vasan (We Are Lady Parts) signed on to star in the Black Mirror episode “Demon 79,” it wasn’t entirely clear whether it would be would even exist under the Black Mirror banner. Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker and co-writer Bisha K. Ali began the project as an exercise in writing “Red Mirror,” a companion piece for Brooker’s long-running sci-fi anthology in which the usual rules needn’t apply.

“We knew that it was a bit longer than a [usual Black Mirror] episode. We didn’t even know at the start if there were going to be other episodes or if we were just a one-off special,” Vasan says.

Operating under cloak and dagger secrecy is something that any actor must get used to when working on Black Mirror – particularly when it’s an entry that seeks to...

Stage, television and film star Anjana Vasan’s latest role is the lead in the “Demon 79” episode in Season 6 of Charlie Brooker’s hit Netflix series “Black Mirror.”

Set in northern England, 1979, Vasan plays a meek sales assistant who is told she must commit terrible acts to prevent disaster in the episode written by Brooker and Bisha K. Ali (“Ms. Marvel”) and directed by Toby Haynes (“Andor”). Paapa Essiedu (“Gangs of London”) has a pivotal role in the episode.

“Every episode of ‘Black Mirror’ is different but this one felt just distinctly like trying to do something different,” Vasan told Variety. “And when I read it, I was genuinely surprised. I didn’t know where the story was going to go. And I thought the dynamic between Paapa’s character and myself was so interesting and so surprising. I just wanted to be a part of that world, I wanted...

This article contains spoilers for the Black Mirror episode “Demon 79.”

Black Mirror Season 6 Episode 5

Here’s another dubiously happy ending to add to Black Mirror’s growing pile: Girl summons demon, girl fails to commit the required number of human sacrifices to avert the apocalypse, demon asks her to spend eternity with him cast into a matterless void, girl says she’ll give it a go.

A matterless void, as protagonist Nida (Anjana Vasan) dryly notes, isn’t a million miles away from the life she was leading at the start of “Demon 79”, which was co-written by Charlie Brooker with new exec producer, Ms. Marvel and Loki’s Bisha K. Ali.

A young Anglo-Indian woman living alone in a drab flat, working a thankless department store job and having to wordlessly absorb the drip-drip-drip of ambient racism in 1979 Britain, Nida’s world didn’t have much to recommend it.

Enter: Satanic minion Gaap.

Plot: Expect the unexpected. The long-awaited return of Charlie Brooker’s dark, satirical anthology series which reinvents itself with each new episode. The sixth season of Black Mirror is the most unpredictable, unclassifiable and unexpected yet. The series is created and written by Charlie Brooker.

Review: Black Mirror has become a prescient look at our modern world of technology through a Twilight Zone lens. Charlie Brooker’s creative vision for his anthology series has amassed only twenty-eight entries over twelve years, each a chilling, satirical, horrifying, and sometimes funny look at the 21st century and beyond. Since shifting to Netflix from Channel 4, Brooker has ventured outside of the expected to give us an interactive film and almost feature-length episodes. The newest season of Black Mirror boasts two entries that are feature films themselves and another that mocks the streaming platform it can be found on. The result is an...

In retrospect, it was probably inevitable that reality would catch up to Black Mirror. Not in the literal sense (we still don’t have cookies or grains, and thank goodness for that), but in a spiritual one. When the series launched in 2011, it stood out for its deep skepticism in the age of tech optimism. Now actual headlines about AI replacing human workers or entire democracies being upended by social media algorithms feel like the stuff of Black Mirror plotlines, much in the same way the Trump era outdid Veep and Peak TV brought some of 30 Rock’s most cynical gags to life.

Add to that the general sense that creator Charlie Brooker might be tiring of the whole exercise, going by season five’s uninspired entries, and it’s little wonder that the newest batch feel less prescient than they once did. But Black Mirror has one final...

Netflix’s critically acclaimed anthology series Black Mirror has set a June 15, 2023 return date. The streaming service unveiled an official trailer for the upcoming sixth season and teased that the new season will be the series’ “most unpredictable, unclassifiable, and unexpected yet.”

Among the actors appearing in the five new episodes are Aaron Paul, Anjana Vasan, Annie Murphy, Auden Thornton, Ben Barnes, Clara Rugaard, Daniel Portman, Danny Ramirez, Himesh Patel, John Hannah, and Josh Hartnett. Plus, Kate Mara, Michael Cera, Monica Dolan, Myha’la Herrold, Paapa Essiedu, Rob Delaney, Rory Culkin, Salma Hayek Pinault, Samuel Blenkin, and Zazie Beetz star in the upcoming season.

Black Mirror was created and written by Charlie Brooker. Season six directors include Ally Pankiw, Sam Miller, John Crowley, Uta Briesewitz, and Toby Haynes, with Brooker, Jessica Rhoades, and Annabel Jones executive producing.

Bisha K. Ali co-wrote “Demon 79” and also executive produces.

“I’ve always felt that...

Get ready for a new batch of mindf**ks.

On Wednesday, Netflix dropped the brand new trailer for “Black Mirror” season 6, along with announcing the premiere date on June 15.

Read More: ‘Black Mirror’ Is Back With Chilling Season 6 Trailer Featuring Salma Hayek and Aaron Paul

With an all-star cast, the new season of the sci-fi anthology series will feature five episodes.

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The trailer also teases each of the new stories in the season.

Photo: Netflix — Photo: Netflix

“Joan Is Awful”: An average woman is stunned to discover a global streaming platform has launched a prestige TV drama adaptation of her life — in which she is portrayed by Hollywood A-lister Salma Hayek.

Cast: Annie Murphy, Ben Barnes, Himesh Patel, Michael Cera, Rob Delaney, Salma Hayek Pinault

Director: Ally Pankiw. Written by: Charlie Brooker. Filmed in: UK

Photo: Netflix

“Loch Henry”: A young couple travel to a sleepy Scottish...

Nothing is really what is seems.

The sixth season of beloved mind-bending series “Black Mirror” includes an ensemble cast of Aaron Paul, Michael Cera, Salma Hayek Pinault, Myha’la Herrold, Kate Mara, Danny Ramirez, Paapa Essiedu, Rob Delaney, Zazie Beetz, and Salma Hayek Pinault.

Per Netflix’s elusive logline, in “Black Mirror” Season 6, expect the unexpected. The long-awaited return of Charlie Brooker’s dark, satirical anthology series which reinvents itself with each new episode. The sixth season of “Black Mirror” is the most unpredictable, unclassifiable, and unexpected yet.

The full episode list of the five-installment season revealed Toby Haynes, Ally Pankiw, Sam Miller, John Crowley, and Uta Briesewitz as directors, with all episodes being written by creator Brooker. The final episode, titled “Demon 79,” is co-written by “Ms. Marvel” creator Bisha K. Ali. Broke & Bones is the production company behind the series.

The season kicks off with “Joan Is Awful” about...

Season 6 of the anthology series Black Mirror will be available to watch on the Netflix streaming service as of June 15th, and with that date just a couple weeks away a full trailer for the season has arrived online. You can check it out in the embed above.

Black Mirror season 6 will consist of five episodes, which are titled Joan Is Awful, Loch Henry, Beyond the Sea, Mazey Day, and Demon 79. Here’s a bit of information on each one of them:

Joan Is Awful is the story of an average woman who is stunned to discover a global streaming platform has launched a prestige TV drama adaptation of her life, in which she is portrayed by Hollywood A-lister Salma Hayek. In addition to Hayek, the episode stars Annie Murphy, Michael Cera, Rob Delaney, Ben Barnes, and Himesh Patel. The episode’s directed by Ally Pankiw.

Directed by Sam Miller,...

“Black Mirror” is making its triumphant return with five new nightmares, premiering on Netflix on June 15.

The anthology series’ sixth installment is once again getting meta in an episode titled “Joan Is Awful,” which follows an average woman (Annie Murphy) who is alarmed to realize that streaming platform Streamberry — whose setup bears an obvious resemblance to Netflix — has debuted a TV adaptation of her life.

“That’s Salma Hayek?” Murphy says in the Season 6 trailer teasing the episode, which also stars Ben Barnes, Himesh Patel, Michael Cera, Rob Delaney and Salma Hayek Pinault.

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In addition to “Joan Is Awful,” the streamer introduced four new episodes in the upcoming season, including “Beyond The Sea,” which stars Aaron Paul, Auden Thornton, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara and Rory Culkin as it plays out an...

Black Mirror season six finally has a date.

The long-awaited return of Charlie Brooker’s Netflix anthology series is June 15, the series announced along with episode descriptions and the full official trailer on Wednesday.

The season is confirmed to be five episodes, which is two more installments than the last season that released back in summer of 2019.

In the official announcement about the Emmy-winning series’ return, Brooker said he “stretched the parameters” of what to expect from a Black Mirror episode for the forthcoming season. “I’ve always felt that Black Mirror should feature stories that are entirely distinct from one another, and keep surprising people (and myself) or else what’s the point? It should be a series that can’t be easily defined, and can keep reinventing itself. So partly as a challenge, and partly to keep things fresh for both me and the viewer, I began this...

Netflix has released the official trailer for the sixth season of “Black Mirror,” which reveals that the critically acclaimed series is returning on June 15.

The new season has promised an impressive slew of guest stars, including Aaron Paul, Anjana Vasan, Annie Murphy, Auden Thornton, Ben Barnes, Clara Rugaard, Daniel Portman, Danny Ramirez, Himesh Patel, John Hannah, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara, Michael Cera, Monica Dolan, Myha’la Herrold, Paapa Essiedu, Rob Delaney, Rory Culkin, Salma Hayek Pinault, Samuel Blenkin and Zazie Beetz.

The trailer gives fans a sneak peek at some of this season’s episodes, including one called “Joan Is Awful,” in which an average woman (Annie Murphy) discovers that a global streaming platform — a spoof of Netflix called Streamberry — has launched a prestige drama based on her life, in which she is played by Hayek Pinault.

“Black Mirror” creator and co-showrunner Charlie Brooker teased on the Netflix fan site Tudum...

Netflix hasn’t announced a specific release date for season 6 of the anthology series Black Mirror yet, but we do know that the new episodes of the show will be available to watch on the streaming service sometime in June. And now, thanks to Entertainment Weekly, not only do we know that this season is going to consist of five episodes, but we also know the titles of all five episodes – and have a plot synopsis for each one!

A video revealing the five titles can be seen at the bottom of this article. But if you just want to read them, here’s the line-up: Joan Is Awful, Loch Henry, Beyond the Sea, Mazey Day, and Demon 79.

And here’s the info on them:

Joan Is Awful is the story of an average woman who is stunned to discover a global streaming platform has launched a prestige TV drama adaptation of her life,...

Netflix has revealed the official episode titles and plot synopses for Season 6 of its dystopian sci-fi series “Black Mirror.”

The series, which is set to debut in June, will feature five new episodes titled “Joan Is Awful,” “Loch Henry,” “Beyond the Sea,” “Mazey Day” and “Demon 79.” Here are Netflix’s plot descriptions and cast for each episode:

Joan Is Awful

An average woman is stunned to discover a global streaming platform has launched a prestige TV drama adaptation of her life — in which she is portrayed by Hollywood A-lister Salma Hayek.

Directed by: Ally Pankiw

Written by: Charlie Brooker

Starring: Annie Murphy, Salma Hayek Pinault, Michael Cera, Himesh Patel, Rob Delaney, Ben Barnes

Loch Henry

A young couple travel to a sleepy Scottish town to start work on a genteel nature documentary – but find themselves drawn to a juicy local story involving shocking events of the past.

Directed by: Sam Miller...

Series creator, writer, and executive producer Charlie Brooker promises season six of Netflix’s Black Mirror will pull off twists and turns that no one will see coming. “Partly as a challenge, and partly to keep things fresh for both me and the viewer, I began this season by deliberately upending some of my own core assumptions about what to expect,” explained Brooker in an interview with Netflix’s Tudum.

Brooker added: “The stories are all still tonally Black Mirror through-and-through — but with some crazy swings and more variety than ever before.”

Netflix just released the first teaser trailer, poster, and photos from the sixth season of the critically acclaimed anthology series, which is targeting a June 2023 premiere.

In addition, the streaming service released the cast list – but not episode descriptions.

Season six will feature Aaron Paul, Anjana Vasan, Annie Murphy, Auden Thornton, Ben Barnes, Clara Rugaard, Daniel Portman, Danny Ramirez,...

A teaser trailer for season 6 of the Netflix anthology series Black Mirror has arrived online, revealing that the new batch of episodes will be available to watch on the streaming service as of June. Along with the unveiling of the teaser comes confirmation that the cast of this season includes Aaron Paul, Anjana Vasan, Annie Murphy, Auden Thornton, Ben Barnes, Clara Rugaard, Daniel Portman, Danny Ramirez, David Shields, Himesh Patel, John Hannah, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara, Michael Cera, Monica Dolan, Myha’la Herrold, Paapa Essiedu, Rob Delaney, Rory Culkin, Salma Hayek Pinault, Samuel Blenkin, and Zazie Beetz.

Created and written by Charlie Brooker, who executive produces the show with Annabel Jones, Jessica Rhoades, and Bisha K. Ali, Black Mirror is an anthology series that taps into our collective unease with the modern world, with each stand-alone episode a sharp, suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia leading to an unforgettable – and sometimes unsettling – conclusion.

Expect the unexpected… says Charlie Brooker in the official announcement of Black Mirror season six.

The long-awaited return of Brooker’s Netflix anthology series is coming in June, with plans to “reinvents itself with each new episode.”

While the total episode count and premiere date have yet to be announced, The Hollywood Reporter previously reported that season six will have more episodes than the previous season, which had three installments, and will continue the show’s trend of producing longer and more cinematic stories.

Per logline, the sixth season of Black Mirror is the most unpredictable, unclassifiable and unexpected yet. And Wednesday’s announcement came with a teaser trailer for a first look at what to expect.

Brooker’s Emmy-winning dystopian anthology that explores technology’s impact on humanity hasn’t put out a new episode since season five in 2019. Prior to that, the series had released the interactive feature...

“Black Mirror” is back.

The viral thriller anthology series returns to Netflix for a sixth season, created by Charlie Brooker.

The new cast of guest stars includes Aaron Paul, Anjana Vasan, Annie Murphy, Auden Thornton, Ben Barnes, Clara Rugaard, Daniel Portman, Danny Ramirez, Himesh Patel, John Hannah, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara, Michael Cera, Monica Dolan, Myha’la Herrold, Paapa Essiedu, Rob Delaney, Rory Culkin, Salma Hayek Pinault, Samuel Blenkin, and Zazie Beetz.

Per Netflix’s elusive logline, in “Black Mirror” Season 6, expect the unexpected. The long-awaited return of Charlie Brooker’s dark, satirical anthology series which reinvents itself with each new episode. The sixth season of “Black Mirror” is the most unpredictable, unclassifiable, and unexpected yet.

The trailer’s many intriguing and cryptically weird images include “Schitt’s Creek” favorite Annie Murphy having some kind of public meltdown in a cheerleading outfit, harking back to Bryce Dallas Howard’s very public breakdown in Season 3 episode “Nosedive.

Surprise! “Black Mirror” is coming back.

“Black Mirror” Season 6 will debut on Netflix in June 2023, the streamer announced Wednesday. The cast for Season 6 of the dark satire series is set to feature Aaron Paul, Anjana Vasan, Annie Murphy, Auden Thornton, Ben Barnes, Clara Rugaard, Daniel Portman, Danny Ramirez, Himesh Patel, John Hannah, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara, Michael Cera, Monica Dolan, Myha’la Herrold, Paapa Essiedu, Rob Delaney, Rory Culkin, Salma Hayek Pinault, Samuel Blenkin and Zazie Beetz.

“You’ve been wondering; You’ve been waiting; You’ve been warned,” the teaser for the upcoming season reads alongside glimpses of the new characters and their twisted worlds, including “Schitt’s Creek” star Annie Murphy interrupting a wedding while wearing a cheerleading uniform.

Charlie Brooker returns as writer, creator and executive producer. Hailing from Broke & Bones, other EPs on Season 6 are Jessica Rhoades, Annabel Jones and “Ms. Marvel” head writer Bisha K. Ali. The...

Netflix has confirmed Season 6 of Black Mirror, unveiled trailer and launch date, and revealed a bumper cast list featuring Aaron Paul, Kate Mara, Michael Cera and Salma Hayek Pinault. Scroll down for the trailer as creator Charlie Brooker says he has “stretched the parameters of what a Black Mirror show even is” for the latest series.

Revealed shortly before a Netflix Showcase in London, the streamer has issued its first Black Mirror Season 6 cast confirmation following months of speculation and leaks. It also revealed the show will launch in June, four years after the previous season.

Anjana Vasan, Annie Murphy, Auden Thornton, Ben Barnes, Clara Rugaard, Daniel Portman, Danny Ramirez, Himesh Patel, John Hannah, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara, Monica Dolan, Myha’la Herrold, Paapa Essiedu, Rob Delaney, Rory Culkin, Samuel Blenkin and Zazie Beetz are the other confirmed cast members, with more detail coming in due course. Ms. Marvel head writer...

Alongside her work through Extracurricular and Malala Fund, Yousafzai is throwing her weight behind Pillars Artist Fellowship, which supports emerging Muslim directors and screenwriters.

The program is timely, given shocking new data from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative that reveals Muslims comprised only 1.1 of characters in popular television series from 2018 to 2019, despite making up 25 of the world’s population.

Set up last year by Pillars Fund and actor-producer Riz Ahmed and his production company, Left Handed Films, the fellowship provides an unrestricted grant of 25,000 to 10 recipients a year. It also offers one-on-one mentorship, professional development and access to an advisory committee of leading figures such as “Ms. Marvel” showrunner Bisha K. Ali and Mahershala Ali.

“The work that Riz is doing is incredible, to ensure that Muslim writers, directors, producers and actors — especially those who are in the early phase of their careers — get the opportunity and the support they...

Former Sky Exec Kylie Munnich Named Goalpost Pictures CEO

The Invisible Man, Five Blind Dates and Black Snow producer Goalpost Pictures has named film and TV industry veteran Kylie Munnich as its CEO. The Sydney-based producer will welcome her on November 1. The former Sky Studios and Sonar Entertainment exec is leaving a role as head of Screen Queensland, a post she held for three years, overseeing the state’s biggest ever spike in production against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic. Previously, she was a Scripted Sales and Co-Production Executive for Seven Studios and Senior Vice President for Distribution, Asia Pacific for Sonar Entertainment. Before that, she’d worked in the UK as Director of Drama and Comedy for Sky Vision (now Sky Studios) and worked on in-house scripted commissions for Sky. She also held senior roles for Sony Pictures Television. Goalpost is currently in in post-production on Stan and...

Brie Larson is back as Captain Marvel, but this time, she has a whole cohort of fellow female superheroes.

Following the 2019 film “Captain Marvel,” sequel “The Marvels” is a continuation of Disney+ series “Ms. Marvel” starring Iman Vellani as the titular teen Marvel hero. “The Marvels” marks the first time Carole Danvers aka Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) and Kamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel (Vellani) have teamed up since their crossover moment in the “Ms. Marvel” finale with Larson’s post-credits cameo.

The first trailer for the continuation is, appropriately, tuned to the Beastie Boys’ “Intergalactic Planetary.” We see Teynoah Parris’ Monica up in space with Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) only for some type of portal to open up and swap Monica with Kamala. A series of swaps, ending with Carol in Kamala’s room, sees the trio realize they’re bound together and that their powers can work together to create a team.

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Nearly 400 directors have signed a statement of solidarity with the showrunners’ letter demanding abortion protections from networks, studios and streamers a week and a half ago.

There are now nearly 1,500 writers and directors presenting a united front in asking Hollywood’s employers to help provide abortion access in states where it is now illegal. On July 28, more than 400 female, trans and non-binary TV creators and showrunners sent a letter to the likes of Disney, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal and Netflix asking them to craft explicit policies to protect employees seeking abortions, particularly those working on productions in states where the procedure is now or soon will be prohibited following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson. On Aug. 1, nearly 600 of their male counterparts signed a statement of support.

The original letter demanded that companies furnish a written policy of their current abortion safety plan within 10 days.

More than 400 prominent female writers and showrunners sent a letter today to the heads of the major studios expressing their “grave concerns” about the companies’ “lack of specific production protocols” to protect their workers in anti-abortion states.

The letters, which state that “it is unacceptable to ask any person to choose between their human rights and their employment,” also demanded that the companies “pledge to discontinue all political donations to anti-abortion candidates and political action committees immediately.”

Deadline has obtained a copy of the letter to Netflix, which organizers say was sent to top executives at Amazon Studios, AMC Networks, Apple, Disney, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount Global, , and Warner Bros. Discovery.

The letters, whose signers include Ava DuVernay, Shonda Rhimes, Amy Schumer, Marta Kauffman, Callie Khouri, WGA West vice president Michele Mulroney and WGA West secretary-treasurer Betsy Thomas, said that “this situation raises basic matters of equality, health, and safety in the workplace.

Jessica Alba is getting honest about representation in the MCU.

The Honest Company founder reflected on her experience in Hollywood to Glamour UK, having been called “exotic” when going in for auditions since starting her career at age 11.

“I wanted to be an actress since, forever. I think I always fantasized about living in someone else’s skin and someone else’s reality,” the “Sin City” alum said. “I think I’m naturally an introvert. So for me, it was a way to fit into the world if I get to be somebody else.”

Alba went on to star as Sue Storm in 2005’s “Fantastic Four” and its 2007 sequel, “Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer.” Yet almost 20 years since her first Marvel appearance, Alba doesn’t see as much racial diversity as she’d like.

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Kevin Feige can make anything Marvel-ous.

The Marvel president oversaw the casting of Brett Goldstein as Hercules for the “Thor: Love and Thunder” post-credits scene and surprised showrunners on Disney+ series “Ms. Marvel” with a Brie Larson cameo for the finale. Nia DaCosta, who is helming the “Captain Marvel” sequel (and “Ms. Marvel” tie-in) upcoming film “The Marvels,” directed the post-credits sequence for the show, which series directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah said they had no idea about. The miniseries ended July 13.

In an interview with Collider, Arbi revealed that he was surprised by Larson’s post-credit scene cameo in the finale alongside Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani).

“We would always ask Kevin, ‘Yo, when’s Captain Marvel going to show up?’ And he would always tell us, ‘Don’t worry about it. You’ll see,'” Arbi said. “Meanwhile, he has said to Nia DaCosta, ‘Just shoot that scene.

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“Superheroes don’t need chaperones,” Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) huffs in the finale episode of Ms. Marvel.

Her older brother Aamir (Saagar Shaikh) has arrived on the scene at the final standoff against the Department of Damage Control to watch out for Kamala and her friends, at the request of their mother. It’s a line that serves its purpose in the scene, but also reminds the audience that despite her newfound cosmic powers and sleek superhero outfit, Kamala is still just a teenager. But it’s her authentic and unapologetic teendom that makes her who she is. Vellani’s effortless performance paints Kamala as a real teenager — one who many can recognize once in themselves, their friends and their family.

It’s in those interactions with her friends that Kamala truly embodies authentic teendom, as she maintains her awkward charm even in the direst of situations.

Since its June 8 premiere, Disney’s “Ms. Marvel” has audiences and critics (including this one) buzzing about its stunning South Asian representation. Not only does the show center a Pakistani-American Muslim teen, but Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) is completely at peace with her hyphenated identity. She loves Bollywood movies and food from the local halal cart, she brings her friends to Eid parties and listens to fusion artists like Swet Shop Boys. Her cultural confidence is mirrored in the show’s production: From music to artwork to language, “Ms. Marvel” is a work of love.

“That comes from many of the people involved in the creative process being from either a Pakistani background or Muslim background — they could directly relate to or were open to learning,” head writer and showrunner Bisha K. Ali told IndieWire. “So all of that felt very natural as we were writing it, as I was putting it all together.

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Welcome to the 177th episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast.

Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as the case may be).

This week, Dan and I are going long on the Emmy nominations and then we’ve got a fantastic conversation with Ms. Marvel head writer Bisha K. Ali.

Here’s how the episode plays out:

1. Headlines

The Bear, Sex Education, Criminal Minds, Loot, Black Mirror, Katherine Pope and TBS’ Chad lead the week’s biggest headlines.

2. Emmy nominations

Dan breaks down the key series categories — drama, comedy and limited series — while also looking at some notable oversights...

When Bisha K. Ali first expressed interest in “Ms. Marvel,” the project didn’t officially exist.

The British-Pakistani writer and now showrunner was working on “Loki” when she got off-the-record wind of the project, and insisted that the executive producer of “Loki” get her a meeting.

“I knew about Kamala Khan when I picked up the comics in 2014, before I was even a television writer,” Ali told IndieWire via Zoom on the day of the “Ms. Marvel” finale. “I got that meeting and that’s when it kicked off. I was like, ‘I want to do this. I want to pursue this as much as possible.'”

The “Ms. Marvel” writers room was packed with superfans, and one extra special guest even by Marvel standards: comics creator Sana Amanat, whose expertise Ali asked for specifically.

“She didn’t actually join the project until all the scripts were written,” Ali said.

Stars: Iman Vellani, Matt Lintz, Yasmeen Fletcher, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan Kapur | Written by Bisha K. Ali, Kate Gritmon, Freddy Syborn, A.C. Bradley, Matthew Chauncey, Sabir Pirzada, Fatimah Asghar, Will Dunn | Directed by Adil & Bilall, Meera Menon, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Kamala Khan is a superhero fan with an imagination, particularly when it comes to Captain Marvel; Kamala feels like she doesn’t fit in at school and sometimes even at home, that is until she gets superpowers like the heroes she’s looked up to.

Even though the wildly popular Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is full of comedy, heart, and emotion, one thing it is severely lacking in is more coming-of-age-style stories. Jon Watts’ Spider-Man: Homecoming was really the closest thing we ever got to a coming-of-age MCU film, and boy did it ever work.

However, Bisha K. Ali‘s newest series in the MCU, Ms. Marvel, aims to be a full-blown...

This post contains spoilers for the season finale of "Ms. Marvel."

With any Marvel property, there's always going to be a sense of a "to be continued..." hanging in the air. And while certain threads of "Ms. Marvel" are guaranteed to continue, other, equally-compelling storylines are already raising a few questions. Ms. Marvel herself, aka Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), definitely has her work cut out for her, and her immediate future in the MCU is more or less charted out ("The Marvels" honestly can't come soon enough). But Kamala isn't the only superpowered kid still struggling to come into...

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Spoiler Alert: This story includes discussion of major plot elements of the season finale, including the post credits scene, of “Ms. Marvel,” currently streaming on Disney+.

Over the many iterations of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2008, rarely has a project felt as personal as “Ms. Marvel,” the six-episode series that streamed its season (perhaps series) finale Wednesday. The show serves as the origin story for its titular superhero, a teenage girl named Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), whose powers are unlocked after she places an ancient family bangle on her wrist. Over the course of the series, Kamala learns that the origins of her powers tie her to the Clandestines, a group of supernatural beings — including her great-grandmother — who are trapped on Earth from an alternate dimension and are desperate to use Kamala’s bangle to return home.

But the show spends far more time exploring Kamala’s Earth-bound heritage as...

Spoiler Alert: This post reveals major plot points from the finale of Disney+’s Ms. Marvel.

The Disney+ miniseries Ms. Marvel wrapped up Wednesday with a surprise post-credit scene that while expected was a lot of great fun to see play out.

But before all that, let’s go back to the events of the episode, which saw Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) finally come into her own as the newly minted titular superhero with a fresh new costume and a global community at the ready to protect her from harm.

Becoming a superhero is no easy task, a fact we’re reminded of while watching Kamran (Rish Shah) trying to figure out how his power works much in the same way Kamala does when the show begins. Lucky for him, he has Kamala by his side to guide him even when he becomes volatile after learning his mother, Najma (Nimra Bucha...

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[This story contains spoilers for the Ms. Marvel season finale.]

“The is no normal,” Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) says in the finale of Ms. Marvel. That turns out to be an understatement, as the true extent of her powers is revealed to her in the final minutes of the series.

The six-episode Disney+ series, led by head writer Bisha K. Ali and directing team, Adil & Bilall, made some significant changes to the character’s mythos, while still retaining the core of who Kamala Khan is — “good is not a thing you are. It’s a thing you do.”

Kamala shrugs off the notion of labels at the end of the series, content in the goodness that comes from efforts as New Jersey’s very own superhero. Of course, the reveal that Kamala is in fact a mutant, a surprise jolted by a few notes from the iconic X-Men: The Animated Series theme,...