Will Frank and Amy be back? (Picture: Netflix)

Joe Cole has teased a potential return to Black Mirror, days after Netflix leaked the return date for season five.

‘I am doing something right now, I can’t talk about it but it will be announced this week but I am very excited. It’s TV, and it’s very very exciting but we will see what happens with that but I can’t talk about it just yet,’ he told Metro.co.uk – and when asked if it was more of Charlie Brooker’s award-winning series he smiled and added: ‘You’ll have to wait and see.’

Joe starred in the fourth episode of season four, titled Hang The DJ, which saw Frank and Amy meet for a date after matching on a tech app, only to discover the app tells them their relationship will quickly end.



They move on but are unable to forget each other, but soon they realise their world is not all it appears.


The award-winning show has focused purely on stand-alone episodes but stories are beginning to intertwine Joe admitted he would be ‘very interested’ to return to this world.

‘I did Black Mirror straight after this movie and it was important for me as I was doing Peaky Blinders, and I was trying to show people another side to me,’ he said.

‘The problem with doing physical roles is people think that’s all you can do, they think you’re that person so for me, when that role came about, I wanted to do it because I am more like that guy.

‘It was nice for me as it was an amazing script and people seemed to have really responded to that episode.’

Winner of the best actor award, Joe Cole (Picture: Getty Images)

Joe was speaking at the 2018 British Independent Film Awards where he won best actor for his work on A Prayer For Dawn.

Black Mirror’s fifth season will air on Netflix although a release date and information on the cast and episodes has not yet been released.

In late November, an official Netflix account accidentally tweeted December release dates and included Black Mirror: Bandersnatch as hitting screens on 28 December.

As well as coming from an official account, Black Mirror has traditionally debuted on the final Friday of the year – in 2018, that will be the 28 December – and Bandersnatch was also the name used by production during filming in April earlier this year.

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