I think there wasn’t any clarity from the channel. “Given the show had won lots of awards and had been really positively received on the whole, it was strange. Jones added, “We were trying to get a meeting to discuss why these ideas weren’t Black Mirror, so we could attempt to understand what the concern was. Channel 4 have released new pictures of Charlie Brooker drama Black Mirror: 15 Million Merits - a satirical take on TV talent shows scheduled to clash with the X Factor final this Sunday. “When feedback came, we were told they weren’t very Black Mirror and they were no longer going to allocate the money for four episodes,” said Brooker. While some of these stories would eventually go on to become Black Mirror episodes when the show moved to Netflix, the team at Channel 4 evidently weren’t so keen. Critics Consensus: Black Mirror answers the call for a larger season with a double batch of.
“We agreed to do four more episodes, but this time they wanted to see detailed synopses of each film in advance, which I thought was outrageous at the time.” “Channel 4 said they wanted to make more Black Mirror,” Brooker explained.
The network felt that Black Mirror was just becoming too costly for what was ostensibly a comedy show and a meeting with Channel 4 shortly after the second series of Black Mirror had aired only heightened Brooker and Jones’s fears. Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror was originally looked after by Channel 4’s comedy department Turns out Channel 4 won’t be debuting season three of their acclaimed series Black Mirror after all, as streaming giant Netflix has scooped up the Charlie Brooker show for a reported 40 million. It focuses on Black Mirror as a case study, with this Channel 4 show having become a Netflix production from 2016 onward.