Road To Hell

Andrew Scott plays a hostage-taking taxi driver as Black Mirror returns with three new tales of the unexpected

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Get ready to step back into the dark and dystopian world of Black Mirror, as Charlie Brooker’s Emmy-winning anthology show returns for a fifth series.

Sherlock’s Andrew Scott, American pop star Miley Cyrus and a host of other big names appear in three standalone episodes that tap into the sense of unease and techno-paranoia that pervades the modern world.

We caught up with showrunners Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones to find out more about the upcoming series, and how it reflects a society that’s evolving at a faster rate than ever…

Do you find it difficult to keep coming up with fresh ideas for Black Mirror?

Brooker The world keeps changing, new technology keeps appearing and because the stories are about people in a pickle, you’re never going to run out of ways for characters to mess up or get into interesting scrapes. In that respect we could keep going for as long as people want to watch. The tricky thing is to avoid replicating the exact same films we’ve done before without realising it, but we can build on certain elements that we’ve already introduced.