‘Black Mirror’ Season 5 could come ‘sooner than you think’

At least that’s what the show’s creator says. Charlie Booker told Radio Times in very vague terms that the fifth season of the show is coming. “It’s all imminent-ish. It’ll be out soon.” He adds, “I don’t know what you think, or I’d say it’s sooner than you think.” Apparently, they also already shot one of the episodes before diving deep into the creation of Bandersnatch. Rumour has it, Miley Cyrus is also involved in one of the other episodes. Brooker is keeping themes of the show closely guarded, too, and said that when he said comments about the series being more politically-focused, these might have been misconstrued.

“Last time I kept getting asked, ‘How do you do Black Mirror in a dystopian present?’ and I was saying, ‘Well I deliberately haven’t written an episode about Brexit, because you don’t know how that’s going to play out, so you’d have to wait and see, in a way.’ Because of the turnaround time that we have, we don’t want to be completely outmoded. We don’t tend to do things where we go, ‘Oh what’s happening today?’ and then write about that. So I don’t know that that’s true. Also, weirdly we’ve done a lot of those things already. We’ve sort of done Trump [in series two episode The Waldo Moment]. It’s probably not more political this year, really, except maybe when it is,” he said.