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When will Black Mirror season 4 be released? Netflix has confimed that Black Mirror season four will be airing on Friday, December 29. Black Mirror season four will comprise of six new episodes. Like most Netflix originals, Black Mirror will drop in America at midnight and will be available in the UK from 8am. A new trailer was been released to mark the launch date which was previously up in the air. All six episode titles have been confirmed with Netflix releasing a few teaser images to whet viewers’ whistles. One is from USS Callister, which takes Black Mirror into space for the first time. The episode stars Chewing Gum’s Michaela Coel, who had a brief appearance in season three’s Nosedive, alongside Fargo and Breaking Bad's Jesse Plemons.

NETFLIX Black Mirror will return next year with a new season

Is there a trailer for Black Mirror season 4? Yes, Netflix has released a brand new trailer that shows fans more from the upcoming season. In the two-minute teaser, fans are presented with a montage of snapshots from the six stories including the sinister black-and-white Metalhead with Maxine Peake. Initially, the pacing is fast as viewers are hit with new footage before things slow down and Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World ironically starts playing as a couple fling a dead body off a cliff. The trailer comes to a close with a woman appearing to murder someone as the screen goes blank and the now famous Black Mirror logo appears and shatters.

NETFLIX Black Mirror season 4: First look at USS Callister

What will happen in Black Mirror season 4? Like previous runs, season four contains six stand-alone episodes, with each tackling a different genre. Episode one, Crocodile, is a “beautiful, more personal study”, producer Annabel Jones told The Independent. “It’s a film set in the near future where your memories are no longer private so they can be dredged – sometimes in helpful ways,” she explained. Unlike fan-favourite The Entire History of You (season one), the memories in Crocodile can’t be relied on.

NETFLIX Black Mirror season 4: First look at Arkangel

Jodie Foster directs episode two, Arkangel, which explores the concept of helicopter parenting. “It follows a mother who has a young daughter and faces that perennial question of how to look after a child in an increasingly technical world,” Jones said. Episode three, Hang the DJ, has “quite a lot of sex” and tackles online dating. It is followed by USS Callister, a “space opera” which promises to be Black Mirror’s most lavish production yet. “There are obviously more unsettling, poignant and slightly more melancholic moments, but at the same time, it is a romp,” Jones said.

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GETTY Jodie Foster is set to direct an episode of the new season