Hang the DJ Netflix

It had to happen. Season four of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror will take aim at dating apps and explore the hell of modern dating.

The episode, titled Hang the DJ, is directed by Tim Van Patten (Game of Thrones, The Sopranos, The Wire) and stars Georgina Campbell (Flowers, Broadchurch), Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders, Green Room).


In the first still from the episode (above), Campbell and Cole can be seen using the dating app that’s at the centre of the story. Speaking to The Independent earlier this month, producer Annabel Jones said Hang the DJ would tackle issues “pertinent to the contemporary dating scene” with “a lot of sex” and “a lot of comedic wry observations”.

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"This season we definitely have more variety of tone – there are a couple of episodes that have got more playful elements than we've done before," Brooker says. "Having said that we've also got one or two of the nastiest stories we've ever done as well."

Since debuting on Channel 4 in December 2011, Black Mirror has gone from cult hit to double Emmy-winning cultural megalith. Season four, which will debut on Netflix later this year, comprises of six episodes written by Brooker. The show has previously tackled everything from online hate speech to our social media-driving obsession with rating everything. So it's about time Brooker turned his prescient, darkly comic gaze on how technology has changed (and will continue to change) dating and sex.


Metalhead Netflix

Another new still shows a scene from Metalhead (above), which has been shot entirely in black and white, a new approach for the series. The episode stars Maxine Peake (The Theory Of Everything, The Village) and Jake Davies (The Missing, A Brilliant Young Mind), with David Slade (Hannibal, American Gods) directing.

Season four will also feature more CGI. "If you take on a space opera, you've got to have all the gizmos, the CGI that goes with it to sell that world," Jones says. "Take Metalhead, for example. While there is a big CGI aspect it's a very gritty, weird, raw world."