Black Mirror season 7: everything we know so far about the hit Netflix show’s return

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Black Mirror season 7 will launch on Netflix in 2025. (Image credit: Netflix)
Black Mirror season 7: key information

- Launching on Netflix on April 10, 2025
- Will be six episodes
- An official trailer is available
- New and returning cast confirmed
- First ever sequel episode based on season 4’s USS Callister
- Episode titles and synopses have been confirmed
- Brooker “in it for the long haul” for future seasons

Black Mirror season 7, the highly-praised and darkly satirical anthology Netflix series, will return in 2025.

In this guide to the upcoming show, we have gathered intel about season 7 that’ll be sure to excite. It's one of the best Netflix shows, offering a wealth of sci-fi scenarios spanning dystopias and tackling themes of surveillance, AI, and societal issues, to name but a few.

For season 7, the show looks set to return with more chaotic and thought-provoking tales on the best streaming service. Plus, there's an all-star cast already confirmed, which features returning characters in an unprecedented move for Black Mirror with the first-ever sequel.

With a show like this, you're never quite sure what to expect, but we've scoured high and low for everything you need to know about Black Mirror season 7 from release date, to confirmed cast, to confirmed plot synopses, and more news.

Black Mirror season 7: is there a release date?

Yes, Black Mirror season 7 arrives on Netflix on Thursday, April 10. The news was confirmed in a Tudum press release alongside episode titles and synopses.

With six episodes to dive into, it's bigger than previous seasons so fans eager for a longer season will be happy!

Black Mirror season 7: has a trailer been released?

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Yes, an official trailer is out, which also confirms the titles of the six new episodes. These are as follows:

  • "Common People"
  • "Bête Noire",
  • "Hotel Reverie"
  • "Plaything"
  • "Eulogy"
  • "USS Callister: Into Infinity".

Black Mirror season 7: confirmed cast

Cristin Milioti sits aboard a table on the spaceship USS Callister in Black Mirror

The biggest Black Mirror season 7 news so far - the return of USS Callister (Image credit: Netflix)

Potential spoilers follow for Black Mirror season 7.


Black Mirror is renowned for its stellar cast list, which changes in every episode, thanks to its anthology style. And, during Geeked Week 2024, the Black Mirror season 7 lead cast was revealed and Brooker calls it: “embarrassingly stacked”:

  • Milanka Brooks as Elena Tulaska
  • Waleed Hammad as Po
  • Osy Ikhile as Nate Packer
  • Jimmi Simpson as Walton
  • Paul G. Raymond as Kabir Dudani
  • Cristin Milioti as Nanette Cole
  • Edward Pishiyski Chlerich as Walton Clone
  • Billy Magnussen as Valdack
  • Siena Kelly as Maria
  • Rosy McEwen as Verity
  • James Nelson-Joyce as Kano
  • Awkwafina as Kimmy
  • Will Poulter as Colin Ritman 
  • Asim Chaudhry as Mohan Thakur
  • Peter Capaldi as Cameron
    • Lewis Gribben as young Cameron Walker
  • Emma Corrin as Dorothy
  • Patsy Ferran as The Guide
  • Paul Giamatti as Phillip
  • Rashida Jones as Amanda
  • Chris O’Dowd as Mike
  • Issa Rae as Brandy
  • Tracee Ellis Ross as Gaynor
  • Harriet Walter as Judith Keyworth 

Black Mirror season 7: confirmed story synopses

Black Mirror USS Callister

The crew of the USS Callister - minus two - star in Black Mirror season 7 (Image credit: Netflix)

We now know what each episode of Black Mirror season 7 will be about, so no need to speculate any longer!

Here are all six episodes and what to expect.

"Common People”

Synopsis: When a medical emergency leaves schoolteacher Amanda fighting for her life, desperate husband Mike signs her up for Rivermind, a high-tech system that will keep her alive — but at a cost.

“Bête Noire”

Synopsis: Maria is a high-flying development executive at a chocolate company. Everything is going well for her until someone she hasn’t seen since school — a woman named Verity — shows up for a focus group tasting session. It could be the chance for a heartfelt reunion, except there’s something very odd about Verity, and Maria seems to be the only person who notices.

“Plaything”

Synopsis: An eccentric loner named Cameron, who harbors an obsession with a mysterious 1990s video game, is arrested in connection with a grisly cold case — and his interrogation soon goes to places the police weren’t expecting.

“Eulogy”

Synopsis: An innovative system that enables users to literally step into photographic memories of the past leads a lonely man to re-examine a heartbreaking period in his past.

“USS Callister: Into Infinity”

Synopsis: Robert Daly is dead, but the crew of the USS Callister — led by Captain Nanette Cole — find that their problems are just beginning.

Will there be more seasons of Black Mirror?

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We'd love to see more Black Mirror, and so would Charlie Brooker (Image credit: Netflix)

With six seasons under his belt and a seventh on the way, the question emerges as to how much more there is to come from Brooker, but thankfully The Hollywood Reporter posed this very question to the man himself.

With an anthology series, the possibilities are seemingly endless, though he said: “I’m sure I’ll find out when we’re not doing any more seasons! It will be made apparent to me at some point, I’m sure. But I’m in it for the long haul. I’m not going anywhere.”

After taking over Black Mirror from Channel 4 in 2015, the fate of the show now belongs to Netflix – though there’s been no official news from them yet as to whether a season eight is coming.


For more Netflix-based coverage, read our guides on 3 Body Problem season 2, Stranger Things season 5, Arcane season 2, and One Piece season 2.

Grace Dean
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Grace is a freelance writer for TechRadar, with past work at sites like GamesRadar, Metro and WhatToWatch. She's been writing about entertainment for over ten years, and has a special interest in sci-fi, rom-coms, and captivating dramas.

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