Black Mirror season 3: Netflix confirms 12 new episodes of Charlie Brooker's drama on the way

The series will initially air on Netflix US, despite being filmed in the UK

(Channel 4)

After some pig-shaped claims that suggest Black Mirror might be much closer to reality than we’d like to think, Netflix has confirmed a new series of Charlie Brooker’s sci-fi show.

A third series of the Emmy-winning drama will run for 12 episodes on the streaming service in the US. A premiere date has yet to be confirmed, but it is thought the season will air next year.

Brooker will continue to serve as a writer and executive producer on the mind-bending show, which he created in 2011.

“It’s all very exciting - a whole new bunch of Black Mirror episodes on the most fitting platform imaginable,” he said.

“Netflix connects us with a global audience so that we can create bigger, stranger, more international and diverse stories than before, while maintaining that Black Mirror feel. I just hope none of these new story ideas come true.”

Charlie Brooker will continue to write and produce the mind-bending drama series (Channel 4)

Cindy Holland, vice president of original content for Netflix, said: “Charlie has created a one-of-a-kind series with an uncanny voice and prescient, darkly comedic vision.”

The first two series of Black Mirror in addition to a more ambitious Christmas special featuring John Hamm originally aired on Channel 4.