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Black Mirror

Anthology series exploring technology's impact on contemporary social issues.

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Contemporary social issues are commented on through the series' use of technology and media themes.[1]

Making and release

Brooker, previously known as a comedy writer, created the series after working on Dead Set and Newswipe.[2] The Twilight Zone, Tales of the Unexpected, and Hammer House of Horror served as models for Brooker's series.[3][4] Channel 4 originally commissioned the series, and its first broadcast was in December 2011.[5][6] Netflix bought the show in September 2015, ordering 12 episodes.[5]

29 December 2017 saw the release of a fourth series, also with six episodes.[7]

What the cited sources add

"Fifteen Million Merits" was the first script written, and "Inbound", which was never produced, was the second.[8][9] After working on other projects, Brooker and Jones established House of Tomorrow, a division of Endemol.[10][11] Inspired by Twilight Zone: The Movie, "White Christmas" combined three stories into a portmanteau.[12][11] William Bridges receives a co-writing credit for "Shut Up and Dance" and "USS Callister".[13][11]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Black Mirror" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Masood, "The Hidden Meaning Behind ‘Black Mirror’s Weird Little Cartoon Bear Waldo", Collider, 2023-07-09 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Black Mirror" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: August, "Scriptnotes Ep, 404: The One with Charlie Brooker, Transcript", 21 June 2019; Reynolds, "Inside the prophetic, angry mind of Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker", 11 April 2019 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Black Mirror" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Charlie Brooker: the dark side of our gadget addiction", The Guardian, 1 December 2011; Lamble, "Charlie Brooker interview: Black Mirror, videogames, Gameswipe and A Touch Of Cloth", Den of Geek, 12 February 2012; Harris, "Arcade Fire's 'Neon Bible': 10 Things You Didn't Know", 5 March 2017 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. "Charlie Brooker: the dark side of our gadget addiction", The Guardian, 1 December 2011. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  5. Wikipedia, "Black Mirror" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Netflix will bring viewers twelve new episodes of the critically-acclaimed Black Mirror", Netflix, 24 September 2015 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Black Mirror" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Charlie Brooker: the dark side of our gadget addiction", The Guardian, 1 December 2011 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Black Mirror" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Turchiano, "Netflix Announces 'Black Mirror' Season 4 Release Date (Watch)", Variety, 6 December 2017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Black Mirror" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Brooker, "Inside Black Mirror", Crown Publishing Group, November 2018; "Charlie Brooker: Virtual Masterclass", Screen and Film School, 16 April 2020 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  9. "Charlie Brooker: Virtual Masterclass", Screen and Film School, 16 April 2020. facts only, no text reused. screenfilmschool.ac.uk
  10. Wikipedia, "Black Mirror" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Brooker, "Inside Black Mirror", Crown Publishing Group, November 2018; Ravindran, "'Black Mirror' Creators Quit Endemol Shine-Owned Label While Navigating IP Headaches With Netflix", Variety, 24 January 2020 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Open Library record, ISBN 9781984823489 ("Inside Black Mirror"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org
  12. Wikipedia, "Black Mirror" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Brooker, "Inside Black Mirror", Crown Publishing Group, November 2018 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  13. Wikipedia, "Black Mirror" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Brooker, "Inside Black Mirror", Crown Publishing Group, November 2018; Brooker, "Inside Black Mirror", Crown Publishing Group, November 2018 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Black Mirror (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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