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Black Mirror Season 7: Release Date, Trailer, Cast, and Everything to Know

Will Poulter and Asim Chaudhry are reprising their roles in Bandersnatch

Tim Surette March 31, 2025 at 11:18 a.m. PT

Cristin Milioti, Black Mirror — Cristin Milioti, *Black Mirror*
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A new season of Black Mirror is coming sooner than we thought. Netflix has announced that Season 7 of Charlie Brooker's anthology series about all the ways technology can be incredibly creepy will be released in April 2025, and it will come with six all-new episodes, including one that's a sequel to a fan-favorite episode from Season 4.

Black Mirror got its start on the United Kingdom's Channel 4 in 2011, with episodes about social media and politics, reality television in a futuristic world, video recordings destroying relationships, and more. Following another U.K.-only season and a Christmas special starring Jon Hamm, the series was acquired by Netflix and was introduced to the rest of the world when Season 3 was released in 2016. The upcoming seventh season will be the fourth season for Netflix.

Here's everything we know so far about Black Mirror Season 7, including its release date, cast, episode details, and trailer.

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Black Mirror Season 7 latest news

On March 31, Netflix shared details about the Black Mirror Season 7 episodes. The announcement has everything we were looking for, including the titles, the plot, and the actors featured in each. Read on below to find out more.

**What will Black Mirror Season 7's episodes be about?**

Here are details for each of the six Black Mirror episodes in the new season. In addition to the previously announced sequel to "USS Callister," Netflix also shared that Will Poulter and Asim Chaudhry will be reprising their roles as Colin Ritman and Mohan Thakur, respectively, which they previously starred as in the interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.

Episode 701: "Common People"

Synopsis: When a medical emergency leaves schoolteacher Amanda fighting for her life, her desperate husband Mike signs her up for Rivermind, a high-tech system that will keep her alive - but at a cost….
Starring: Rashida Jones (Amanda), Chris O'Dowd (Mike), Tracee Ellis Ross (Gaynor)
Director: Ally Pankiw
Written by: Charlie Brooker (Story by Charlie Brooker and Bisha K. Ali)
Run time: 56 minutes

Episode 702: "Bête Noire"

Synopsis: Confectionary whizz kid Maria is unnerved when her former schoolmate Verity joins the company she works at — because there's something altogether odd about Verity, something only Maria seems to notice…
Starring: Siena Kelly (Maria), Rosy McEwen (Verity), Michael Workéyè (Kae), Ben Bailey Smith (Gabe), Amber Grappy (Yudy), Ravi Aujla (Mr Ditta), Elena Sanz (Camille), Hanna Griffiths (Luisa)
Director: Toby Haynes
Written by: Charlie Brooker
Run time: 49 minutes

Episode 703: "Hotel Reverie"

Synopsis: A high-tech, unusually immersive remake of a vintage British film sends Hollywood A-list star Brandy Friday into another dimension, where she must stick to the script if she ever wants to make it home.
Starring: Issa Rae (Brandy), Emma Corrin (Dorothy), Awkwafina (Kimmy), Harriet Walter (Judith Keyworth)
Director: Haolu Wang
Written by: Charlie Brooker
Run time: 1 hour 16 minutes

Episode 704: "Plaything"

Synopsis: In a near-future London, an eccentric murder suspect is linked to an unusual video game from the 1990s — a game populated by cute, evolving artificial lifeforms.
Starring: Peter Capaldi (Cameron Walker 2034), Lewis Gribben (Cameron Walker 1994), James Nelson Joyce (DCI Kano), Michele Austin (Jen Minter), Will Poulter (Colin Ritman), Asim Chaudhry (Mohan Thakur)
Director: David Slade
Written by: Charlie Brooker
Run time: 45 minutes

Episode 705: "Eulogy"

Synopsis: An isolated man is introduced to a groundbreaking system that allows its users to literally step inside old photographs — stirring powerful emotions in the process.
Starring: Paul Giamatti (Phillip), Patsy Ferran (The Guide)
Director: Chris Barrett & Luke Taylor
Written by: Charlie Brooker and Ella Road
Run time: 46 minutes

Episode 706: "USS Callister: Into Infinity"

Synopsis: Robert Daly is dead, but now the crew of the USS Callister – led by Captain Nanette Cole – are stranded in an infinite virtual universe, fighting for survival against 30 million players.
Starring: Cristin Milioti (Nanette Cole), Jimmi Simpson (James Walton), Billy Magnussen (Karl Plowman), Osy Ikhile (Nate Packer), Milanka Brooks (Elena Tulaska), Paul G. Raymond (Kabir Dudani)
Director: Toby Haynes
Written by: Charlie Brooker, Bisha K. Ali, William Bridges, and Bekka Bowling
Run time: 1 hour 28 minutes

Common People
Bête Noire
Hotel Reverie
Plaything
Eulogy
USS Callister: Into Infinity
Black Mirror returns April 10. pic.twitter.com/MPi6j3XTRd

— Netflix (@netflix) March 31, 2025

When does Black Mirror Season 7 come out?

The Black Mirror infodump of March 13, 2025, included a release date. Season 7 of Black Mirror will premiere Thursday, April 10. The wait between seasons will be much shorter than it was last time; Season 5 came out in June 2019, and Season 6 came out in June 2023.

How many episodes are in Black Mirror Season 7?

There will be six episodes in Season 7. One of them will be a sequel to "USS Callister," the first episode of Season 4. In that episode, which is widely considered to be one of the best episodes of the entire series, Jesse Plemons played a game developer who created a Star Trek-like adventure in a massive multiplayer online role-playing game and created digital clones of his coworkers that he could boss around as the captain of a spaceship. In the end, the players revolted against him and essentially deleted his consciousness, freeing them to fend for themselves inside the game.

"USS Callister will return… Robert Daly is dead, but for the crew of the USS Callister, their problems are just beginning," Netflix teased, according to Deadline.

Black Mirror Season 7 trailers

The episode details are out! On March 31, Netflix revealed what to expect for each of the six stories in Black Mirror Season 7.

On March 13, Netflix released the first full trailer for Season 7, and things are looking very eerie and — dare I say — promising? Subjects include artificial intelligence, video games, and body augmentation — you know, all things that are terrorizing us now.

The initial announcement of Season 7 in March 2024 was accompanied by a video reveal that doesn't give away too many details, but it does confirm six new episodes coming in 2025.

Black Mirror Season 7 images

In March, Netflix released the first pictures from the new season, including plenty of shots from the USS Callister episode. Peruse them in the gallery below.