Netflix sets season 7 of 'Black Mirror'

Charlie Brooker's satirical anthology series will return with its seventh season, featuring a new star-studded cast of Awkwafina, Peter Capaldi, Emma Corrin, Paul Giamatti and Rashida Jones. Created and show run by Brooker, "Black Mirror" is sci-fi show, which is set in a twisted, high-tech near-future where humanity's greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide. The six-episode season, which is currently in production by streaming service Netflix at its annual festival Geeked Week in Atlanta, Georgia. “You can expect a mix of genres and styles. We've got six episodes this time, and two of them are basically feature-length.

Some of them are deeply unpleasant, some are quite funny, and some are emotional," Brooker said at the event. “We have evolved to a place where it's kind of OG Black Mirror this season. So it's all sci-fi, techno-dystopia," he added. The cast for season seven also includes Milanka Brooks, Patsy Ferran, Lewis Gribben, Siena Kelly, Billy Magnussen, Rosy McEwen, Cristin Milioti, Chris O'Dowd, Issa Rae, Paul G Raymond, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jimmi Simpson and Harriet Walter. Brooker teased that one of the six chapters from the new installment will be a sequel to "USS Callister", the Emmywinning episode from season four. The seventh "Black Mirror" season will stream on Netflix in 2025.