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Black Mirror season 6 hit Netflix in 2023 and given but given the extensive wait between season 5 and season 6, many thought we would have to wait a long time for season 7. Luckily, that's not the case!

The streaming service revealed that Black Mirror season 7 would be back in 2025 with a six-episode season at a recent Next on Netflix event in London. Netflix revealed in September 2024 that the new season is currently in production and 19 familiar faces have joined the cast.

Let’s be honest, Black Mirror packs significantly less of a punch than it used to, especially now that so many things that have happened in the show have happened in real life—or at least some version of it.

With AI on the rise, our future is looking bleak and dystopian enough as it is. It’s no wonder that creator Charlie Brooker pivoted to less tech-focused scares in season 6. Still,...

A new miniseries has been announced, and it looks fantastic.

We look at the cast list. What do we see? Oh, another show starring Nicole Kidman. Or Jake Lacy. Or Kate Winslet. Or Betty Gilpin.

You get the idea.

Look, we get it. A miniseries has limited episodes to make an impact, and a recognizable name can be a big draw.

Since it's become commonplace for renowned movie actors to make the move to television, particularly miniseries, why wouldn't a studio jump on the chance to nab a big name?

It's a winning formula -- literally.

Nicole Kidman is an Oscar winner. What television producer wouldn't want her attached to their project?

She's also snagged a couple of Emmys for her work on HBO's Big Little Lies. She's proven her worth as a TV star.

The same can be said about Kate Winslet, who similarly made the jump from movies to television.

Los Angeles and London-based management and production company 42 (“The Silent Twins”) has appointed former Netflix and Tiger Aspect Productions executive Ben Cavey (“Bad Education”) to the newly created role of head of comedy and entertainment.

Based in 42’s Los Angeles office, Cavey will spearhead the company’s expansion into the two genres, producing projects and managing talent across unscripted and scripted television and film. Cavey will also focus on developing projects under 42’s existing three-way production venture with management and production company 3 Arts Entertainment and Lionsgate Television, which includes a first-look deal with Lionsgate Television for the U.S. market.

Cavey has completed executive producing a special and season 4 of “Bad Education” for the BBC, the scripted comedy he originally co-created with Jack Whitehall. Between 2018 – 2022, Cavey was director of original comedy programming at Netflix, where he was responsible for comedy formats, including “Kevin Hart: Don’t F**K This Up,...

A recent patent granted to Microsoft has many “Black Mirror” fans thinking of “Be Right Back,” the first episode of the show’s second season. In that “Black Mirror” installment, Hayley Atwell plays a young woman whose boyfriend, Ash Starmer (Domhnall Gleeson), is killed in a car accident. The woman decides to use technology to resurrect her dead boyfriend as artificial intelligence so she can continue communicating with him.

As reported by The Independent this week, Microsoft has been granted a patent that allows the company “to make a chatbot using the personal information of deceased people.” Under the patent, Microsoft can create an artificial intelligence bot “based on images, voice data, social media posts, electronic message, and more personal information” of a deceased person.

The patent goes on to say: “The specific person [who the chat bot represents] may correspond to a past or present entity (or a version thereof), such as a friend,...