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Netflix will submit eight cast members from Black Mirror for Emmy consideration, Gold Derby has learned.

Paul Giamatti and Chris O'Dowd will be submitted for Limited Series/TV Movie Actor and Rashida Jones will be submitted for Limited Series/TV Movie Actress.

Jimmi Simpson who stepped back into the role of Walton for Black Mirror's "USS Callister: Into Infinity," the sequel to the Emmy-winning episode that originally aired in 2017, will be submitted for Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actor. Likewise, his costar Cristin Milioti, who similarly reprised her role for "Into Infinity," is being submitted as Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actress. The decision would potentially make her eligible for two Emmy nominations, since she is planning on going in the lead category for The Penguin.

Emma Corrin, Issa Rae, and Tracee Ellis Ross will also be submitted for supporting actress.

Giamatti starred in the Black Mirror episode titled "Eulogy,...

Netflix has a strong Emmy hand to play this TV awards season, positioning the seventh season of its flagship anthology series “Black Mirror” for a major awards run — and this time, the dystopian drama might be among its most formidable contenders yet.

Confirmed exclusively to Variety, the streamer is submitting three standout performances for lead acting honors in the limited or anthology series or TV movie categories: Paul Giamatti for the melancholic and moving “Eulogy,” and Chris O’Dowd and Rashida Jones for their resonant turns in the sociopolitical two-hander “Common People.” It’s a bold push that signals high hopes for a season already being hailed as a return to form — and possibly the series’ strongest outing since its Emmy-winning heyday.

Giamatti’s performance as Phillip, a solitary man navigating grief through digital means in “Eulogy,” has generated both tears and buzz. The 46-minute episode explores the ethics of AI-driven memorials,...

Colin Farrell has been a standout in the DC universe, captivating audiences with his gritty portrayal of Oswald “Oz” Cobb, aka The Penguin, in The Batman (2022) and the acclaimed HBO spin-off series The Penguin (2024). His performance earned him a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Critics’ Choice Television Award, cementing his place as a fan favorite.

Fans were thrilled when reports surfaced in March 2025 that Farrell was in talks to take on a second DC role as Franklin John Rock in Sgt. Rock, a World War II action film directed by Luca Guadagnino. However, recent developments suggest this exciting project may have been canceled, leaving fans wondering about Farrell’s in the DC Universe.

What happened to Colin Farrell’s DC endeavor? Colin Farrell in The Penguin | Credits: HBO

In March 2025, it was announced that Colin Farrell would return to the DC Universe for an exciting new project.

Adolescence, Dying for Sex, The Pitt, and The Studio are among the top Emmy contenders nominated for the 2025 Gotham Television Awards, the Gotham Film & Media Institute announced on Tuesday.

Netflix hit limited series Adolescence led all programs with four nominations, including bids for limited series, lead performance for limited series (Stephen Graham), and two supporting performance nominations (Erin Doherty and show breakout Owen Cooper).

Max hit The Pitt landed three nominations: breakthrough drama series, best drama performance for star Noah Wyle, and best drama supporting performance for Katherine Lanasa.

Dying for Sex also hit in three categories: limited series, limited series lead (Michelle Williams), and limited series supporting performance (Jenny Slate).

Freshman comedy The Studio picked up two nominations, for comedy series and comedy supporting performance (Chase Sui Wonders).

As with the Gotham Film Awards, the Gotham Television Awards' acting categories are gender-neutral.

“Building on the success of last year’s inaugural ceremony,...

The Gotham Film & Media Institute handed out nominations to Adolescence, The Pitt and The Studio as well as performances by Kathy Bates, Sterling K. Brown, Ted Danson, Linda Lavin, Cristin Milioti and Michelle Williams for its second annual Gotham Television Awards.

The 2025 event set noms in twelve categories with Netflix’ high-profile series Adolescence topping at four and The Pitt, Matlock and Dying For Sex with three each. A number had double hitters including The Studio, Overcompensating, Penelope, Fantasmas, Deli Boys, Forever, English Teacher and Paradise.

“Building on the success of last year’s inaugural ceremony, the Gotham Television Awards returns with new categories, expanded tributes, and a larger stage to celebrate the creators and artists making their mark on today’s television landscape,” said Jeffrey Sharp, Executive Director of The Gotham. “As the first awards show of the new television season, we are proud to bring together the industry’s most exciting new voices,...

The Gotham Film & Media Institute, Filmmaker‘s parent organization, announced today the nominations in twelve competitive award categories for the 2025 Gotham Television Awards, recognizing a range of series, including Adolescence, The Pitt, The Studio as well as performances from Kathy Bates, Sterling K. Brown, Ted Danson, Linda Lavin, Cristin Milioti, and Michelle Williams, among others. “Building on the success of last year’s inaugural ceremony, the Gotham Television Awards returns with new categories, expanded tributes, and a larger stage to celebrate the creators and artists making their mark on today’s television landscape,” said Jeffrey Sharp, Executive Director of The Gotham. “As […]

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The Gotham Film & Media Institute, Filmmaker‘s parent organization, announced today the nominations in twelve competitive award categories for the 2025 Gotham Television Awards, recognizing a range of series, including Adolescence, The Pitt, The Studio as well as performances from Kathy Bates, Sterling K. Brown, Ted Danson, Linda Lavin, Cristin Milioti, and Michelle Williams, among others. “Building on the success of last year’s inaugural ceremony, the Gotham Television Awards returns with new categories, expanded tributes, and a larger stage to celebrate the creators and artists making their mark on today’s television landscape,” said Jeffrey Sharp, Executive Director of The Gotham. “As […]

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The Gotham Television Awards are recognizing the buzziest series of the year. IndieWire can announce the 2025 nominees, including “Adolescence,” “The Pitt,” and “The Studio.” The Gotham Television Awards ceremony will take place Monday, June 2 in New York City at Cipriani Wall Street.

“Building on the success of last year’s inaugural ceremony, the Gotham Television Awards returns with new categories, expanded tributes, and a larger stage to celebrate the creators and artists making their mark on today’s television landscape,” Jeffrey Sharp, Executive Director of The Gotham, said. “As the first awards show of the new television season, we are proud to bring together the industry’s most exciting new voices, celebrate breakthrough achievements, and deepen our commitment to supporting the creative community.”

Kathy Bates, Sterling K. Brown, Ted Danson, Linda Lavin, Cristin Milioti, and Michelle Williams are among the actors recognized in the genderless categories. The second annual awards...

If you’re looking for something new to binge-watch, Netflix always has you covered with new releases and April is no different. Whether you’re looking for the latest installment of the heartwarming docuseries “Love on the Spectrum,” a new batch of feel-bad from “Black Mirror” or the last season of “You,” here’s a handy guide to the best new shows streaming on Netflix in April.

“Love on the Spectrum” Season 3 Madison and Tyler in “Love on the Spectrum” (Netflix)

The heartwarming docu-reality series “Love on the Spectrum” returned to Netflix this spring. This season picks back up with fan favorites Connor, Tanner, Abbey and David, to name a few, and introduces the audience to some new faces, Madison and Pari. Season 3 even features the series’ first queer relationship. The hopeful singles make breakthrough discoveries, and the happy couples face tough decisions as they navigate the ever-confusing world of romance.

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She played the titular mom on How I Met Your Mother, but is Cristin Milioti a parent in real life?

That’s a question on the minds of many fans these days, thanks to a mysterious new photo making the rounds on social media.

The image — which was posted by the indie rock band Bon Iver — shows Cristin standing alongside the band’s lead singer, Justin Vernon, who is holding a baby.

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For obvious reasons, the family portrait-style pic has led to rumors that Cristin and Justin have welcomed a child together.

Did Cristin Milioti welcome a child with Justin Vernon?

As it turns out, the image is merely a preview of the photo book that accompanies the band’s most recent album, Sable, fABLE.

So no, Cristin does not have a child by Justin.

Ryan Eggold has signed on for an upcoming drama series!

The 40-year-old New Amsterdam star has joined the cast of FX’s Seven Sisters. The show will tell the story of “a large, tight-knit family that begins to unravel when one sister, Adrienne, starts communicating with a voice no one else can hear, forcing them to confront long-buried secrets,” per Deadline.

Elizabeth Olsen will play Adrienne, while Ryan will play her husband. Ryan‘s character is a former addict who frequently discusses his recovery on his podcast.

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Seven Sisters will also star Cristin Milioti, Meredith Hagner, Odessa Young, Zoë Winters, Bridget Brown, Carolyn Kettig, Anthony Edwards, and J. Smith-Cameron.

If you didn’t see, last year, Ryan made his Broadway debut opposite Daniel Dae Kim in the hit show Yellowface.

New Amsterdam vet Ryan Eggold is marrying into a family of Seven Sisters at FX.

The actor will star in the cabler’s drama pilot, headlined by Elizabeth Olsen and Cristin Milioti as two of the titular siblings, our sister site Deadline reports.

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The potential series follows “a large, tight-knit family that begins to unravel when one sister, Adrienne (Olsen...

Leslie Abramson — or at least her TV surrogate — is stepping into the spotlight.

Ari Graynor, who plays the defense attorney in Netflix's Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, will be submitting as Lead Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie for the upcoming Emmy Awards, Gold Derby has learned exclusively.

Graynor stars opposite Javier Bardem, Chloë Sevigny, Cooper Koch, and Nicholas Alexander Chavez, in the true-crime anthology series created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, chronicling the murders of José and Kitty Menendez at the hands of their sons, Lyle (Chavez) and Erik (Koch).

Like many series this season, Monsters experimented with single-take episodes to tremendous success — critics called it "a standout — earning Graynor raves as well. In Episode 5, titled "The Hurt Man," she's seen only from the back as she talks to Erik about the abuse he endured at the hands of his parents.

"It was...

Exclusive: New Amsterdam star Ryan Eggold rounds out the series regular cast of FX’s drama pilot Seven Sisters. He joins Elizabeth Olsen, Cristin Milioti, Meredith Hagner, Odessa Young, Zoë Winters, Bridget Brown, and Carolyn Kettig, who play the titular sisters, Philip Ettinger, who plays their brother, and Anthony Edwards and J. Smith-Cameron, who play the octet’s parents.

Seven Sisters, from FX Productions, follows a large, tight-knit family that begins to unravel when a sister (Olsen) starts communicating with a voice no one else can hear, forcing them to confront long-buried secrets.

Eggold will play Adrienne’s (Olsen) husband, a former addict, which he talks about frequently on his popular podcast.

Seven Sisters is executive produced by Will Arbery, who wrote the pilot; Sean Durkin, who will direct it; and Garrett Basch.

Following his breakout role on NBC’s The Blacklist, Eggold was tapped for the lead of the...

Much of the Emmy conversation around Adolescence's acting chances has centered around Stephen Graham and Owen Cooper, as they play the two key characters in the harrowing project. However, Gold Derby is now predicting that five total performers will receive nominations this year.

The four-episode crime drama is created and written by Graham and Jack Thorne, and stars Graham as Eddie Miller, the father of Cooper's 13-year-old Jamie Miller, who is arrested for allegedly stabbing a classmate to death. Each episode is directed by Philip Barantini and filmed in a single take as viewers learn more about Jamie's crime from the viewpoints of the police, his psychiatrist, and his family.

Also expected to nab Emmy nominations for the cast are Ashley Walters as Detective Inspector Luke Bascombe, Erin Doherty as child psychologist Briony Ariston, and Christine Tremarco as Jamie's mother and Eddie's wife, Manda Miller. Cooper and Doherty are...

Each year, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival gives a preview of what will undoubtedly become the most acclaimed and popular animated titles in the year to come. Last year, the festival premiered Flow, which would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature FIlm, along with another future Oscar nominee, Memoir of a Snail. They also featured a variety of what would become big Netflix titles, such as The Imaginary, Blue Eye Samurai, Pokémon Concierge, and Twilight of the Gods. This year, Netflix is returning to Annecy with a bold, genre-spanning line-up of films, series, and special events, including what may be the crown jewel of them all, an animated series from the Stranger Things universe, created by the Duffer brothers themselves.

The animated series was announced two years ago but now has the official title of Stranger Things: Tales From '85, and a release date of,...

After releasing stand-out animations like Nimona, Ultraman Rising, Spellbound, and Wallace & Gromit: A Vengeance Most Fowl, Netflix is ready to take this year’s Annecy International Animation Festival by storm with exciting new releases planned for 2025 and beyond. Netflix Animation returns to the Théâtre Bonlieu on Wednesday, June 11, for the fest, with exclusive previews for the animated fantasy adventure In Your Dreams and Stranger Things: Tales From ’85.

Executive producer Eric Robles will present a world-exclusive first look at the Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 series, while director Alex Woo, production designer Steven Pilcher, and VFX supervisor Nicola Lavender will debut never-before-seen footage from their upcoming film In Your Dreams during a special panel. Additionally, Netflix will bring Genndy Tartakovsky’s Fixed to the Annecy stage for its world premiere on Wednesday, June 11.

Other must-see events include A masterclass with Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the creator of BoJack Horseman, which follows on Thursday, June...

[This story contains spoilers from the Black Mirror season seven sequel “USS Callister: Into Infinity.”]

Making Black Mirror‘s first-ever sequel was a wild ride. Jimmi Simpson, one of almost all of the returning actors who came back for the season seven episode, likens it to “an artistic battalion.”

“It was chaotic, but everybody was up for it,” he says of returning to play his character, Walton, who is now running tech company Infinity in “USS Callister: Into Infinity” after the death of former CEO Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons) in the first film. The 90-minute sequel — which was at first set to be a series — reunited Simpson with co-star Cristin Milioti and gave him the chance to act opposite her not only in the real world but also as their in-game characters (who Simpson describes as his Caveman Walton and Spaceman Walton) as they voyage on another adventure to save themselves inside the immersive game.

Though...

“The White Lotus” Season 3 might be over, but there are plenty of stories about rich people having a bad day to keep you busy.

Although the wait for Season 4 of HBO’s anthology series could be a long one, it’s likely the end of Season 3 left viewers wanting more stories that blend darkness and comedy while examining the messy lives of the well-off. Thankfully, there are plenty of shows that do just that in their own way and do it well.

If you already miss “The White Lotus,” we’ve put together a list of shows like “The White Lotus” to watch when you’re trying to capture the same vibes that made the HBO series such a great watch.

“Succession” (Credit: HBO) Succession

If you somehow missed the “Succession” train, there really is no better time to jump aboard than in the wake of the latest season of “The White Lotus.

If you’re looking for good movies streaming this month, you’re going to find a treasure chest on Hulu. The streaming service regularly has a healthy selection of new releases, classics and hidden gems, but April is positively jam-packed with all of the above. From one of the best horror movies of last year to a Scorsese classic that’s only become more relevant with time — and a pair of 2024 thrillers that slipped under the radar, here’s a hand-picked selection of the best new movies on Hulu in April.

Carolyn Bracken as Darcy in “Oddity” (Credit: IFC Films) “Oddity” (2024)

Hulu is getting a trio of 2024 IFC Films/Shudder movies in April (“Azrael” and “In a Violent Nature” are the other two), and “Oddity” is easily the crown jewel of the batch — and of Shudder’s 2024 lineup. Carolyn Bracken stars as Dani, a blind psychic medium and owner of a curio shop,...

Fans still love How I Met Your Mother!

The hit sitcom – starring Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan, and Cristin Milioti – first debuted on CBS back on September 19, 2005.

After nine seasons, How I Met Your Mother came to an end on March 31, 2014.

The cast of the hit show has gone on to achieve incredible things in their own careers, and have amassed an impressive amount of money! We’ve now gathered the net worths of all of the main cast members, and ranked them from lowest to highest estimated net worth.

If you didn’t know, How I Met Your Mother is available for streaming on Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+!

Click through the slideshow to find out who the richest How I Met Your Mother cast member is…...

Netflix is no longer reporting number of subscribers on a quarterly basis. But it’s still motoring with a hot growth engine, delivering financial results for the first quarter of 2025 that topped Wall Street expectations.

The industry-leading subscription streamer reported Q1 revenue of $10.54 billion, up 12.5%, and earnings per share of $6.61 (compared with $5.28 a year prior). Operating margin was 31.7%, up from 28.1% in Q1 of 2024. It’s the first quarter Netflix will stop disclosing subscriber counts, a longtime metric investors have used to gauge its growth, as the company wants to focus the narrative on financials and user engagement.

On average, Wall Street analysts expected $10.51 billion in revenue and earnings of $5.66 per share, according to Lseg Data & Analytics.

In its quarterly letter to shareholders, Netflix said the revenue was driven primarily by membership growth and higher pricing. During Q1, Netflix hiked prices in the U.S., the U.K. and Argentina and...

Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror is one of the most loved contemporary series. Set in the near future, the techno-thriller anthology introduces a different technological marvel in each episode, and explores profound philosophical questions and themes with technology as the centre. One of its most celebrated episodes is the season 4 episode ‘USS Callister.’

A parody of and a tribute to Star Trek, the USS Callister sees an in-universe, multiplayer, role-playing game called Infinity, created by the episode’s central character, Robert Daly, played by Jesse Plemons, who uses the VR game to take revenge on his co-workers. The makers of the episode also ideated a spin-off series on the same.

The only Black Mirror episode to get a sequel almost got a spin-off series Jesse Plemons in Black Mirror | Credits: Netflix

The series 4 premiere episode of Black Mirror was the Star Trek-esque ‘USS Callister,’ which has gone down as...

Black Mirror has been one of Netflix's major successes since it first shattered screens in 2011. Fourteen years and seven seasons later, the British anthology series still finds new ways to shock and awe its audience and bring them all the feels.

A brief introduction: I love science fiction. I devoured Isaac Asimov's robot stories as a kid. When the anthology The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One 1929-1964 was first published in 1970, I was enthralled. Television science fiction wasn't quite as good, but it wasn't bad, either. Star Trek is often considered the gold standard of Sf on TV, but nothing compares to The Twilight Zone.

There were science fiction shows before The Twilight Zone, and we've seen more than a few since. It's been rebooted several times, but not even the amazing Jordan Peele matched the original series for its overall quality and (admittedly occasional) sheer brilliance.

Black Mirror has been a hit since its 2011 release, exploring various genres and possibilities beyond day-to-day life. The series has just returned with Season 7.

Black Mirror comes from Charlie Brooker, who brought the series back to its roots in Season 7 after a short detour with Season 6. The series is contemporaneous, criticizing many current themes, including capitalism, technology, and the healthcare industry, but it also brings a sequel to the beloved USS Callister. Black Mirror failed to debut at the top of the charts and had a weaker debut than Season 6, per Tudum.

Black Mirror premiered on Apr. 10 on Netflix, and had two days to make an impression for the week between Apr. 7 and 13. In its short time, the series debuted in fourth place with 7.1 million views and 43.7 million hours viewed. Black Mirror Season 7 debuted in the Top 10 in 71 countries in its first week, including the U.S.

Globally, Black Mirror...

“Seven Sisters” is an upcoming FX series from director Sean Durkin (“The Iron Claw”) that stars heavyweight actresses Elizabeth Olsen and Cristin Milioti, the latter had a breakout performance in the critically acclaimed HBO series “The Penguin.”

The two playing sisters and even more actors have joined the high-profile streaming series, as the other family members have been cast in key roles.

Continue reading ‘Seven Sisters’: Elizabeth Olsen & Cristin Milioti FX Series From Sean Durkin Rounds Out Main Cast at The Playlist.

Spoiler Alert: This recap contains details from Disney+’s Daredevil: Born Again season finale episode “Straight to Hell.”

Updated: Well, this New York City in the season finale of Daredevil: Born Again has more problems on its hands than tariffs on Madison Avenue, and that’s because it’s under martial law, effective immediately by Mayor Fisk, err Mayor Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio).

And while he’s not threatening to build a wall from New Jersey, and have them pay for it, he’s serious when he means it: No more vigilantes. Got it? He’s just been saying it all season long. His task force is out on the streets, and there’s a curfew in effect at 8 p.m. to make sure the message gets across.

After trying to stay out of his reds for most of the season due to the death of Foggy (Elden Henson), Daredevil aka...

Exclusive: FX’s drama pilot Seven Sisters has cast the remainder of the siblings joining Elizabeth Olsen and Cristin Milioti as part of the core family: Meredith Hagner, Odessa Young, Zoë Winters, Bridget Brown, and Carolyn Kettig play the remaining five sisters, and Philip Ettinger will play their brother.

They join Anthony Edwards and J. Smith-Cameron, who play the patriarch and matriarch, Paul and Franchesa Bosco, respectively.

The project, from FX Productions, follows a large, tight-knit family that begins to unravel when a sister (Olsen) starts communicating with a voice no one else can hear, forcing them to confront long-buried secrets.

Seven Sisters is executive produced by Will Arbery, who wrote the pilot; Sean Durkin, who will direct it; and Garrett Basch. If the pilot goes forward, it would mark Basch’s fifth series for FX, where his company Dive has a long-standing first-look deal, following Devs, Reservation Dogs, What We Do in the Shadows,...

"Black Mirror" season 7 recently arrived on Netflix, and it brought with it another batch of twisted sci-fi tales. Perhaps most important of all, it finally delivered a sequel to the fan-favorite episode "USS Callister" from season 4, something many viewers have waited a long time to see. That's certainly good news. But at one time, there was talk of doing an entire spin-off series based on that episode. So, what happened? We finally have an answer.

Talk of a "USS Callister" spin-off series first emerged in 2018, with the episode's director, Toby Haynes, explaining that he'd had conversations about it. However, there have been few updates since then. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Haynes, who returned to direct the season 7 sequel episode, "USS Callister: Into Infinity," offered some background on how the spin-off started to come together behind the scenes before it ultimately fell apart:

"I was talking about it...

Cristin Milioti has had a busy year. Just two weeks after wrapping her role as Sofia Falcone in The Penguin, she flew to London to film the new Black Mirror movie, USS Callister: Into Infinity. It was a fast switch between two very different but very dark characters.

“I was in like a little bit of a fugue state when I got there,” Milioti said with a laugh about how quickly she moved from one set to the next. “Two weeks was a quick turnaround!”

Playing Sofia Falcone, a crime boss in the Batman spinoff series The Penguin, was a big deal for Milioti. Even though she has now moved on to Black Mirror, fans keep asking if she will return for season two of The Penguin.

“I get asked a lot and my answer is always the same — but it is the most genuine answer, which is that I would love nothing more,...

While you wait for Season 7 ofBlack Mirror, which premieres on Netflix April 10, catch a glimpse at the compelling stories ahead in these first-look photos and episode synopses.

Creator, writer, and showrunner Charlie Brooker previously teased what to expect, telling Tudum that the upcoming season was “a little bit Og Black Mirror.” New episodes are “back to basics in many ways,” he added. “They’re all sci-fi stories, but there’s definitely some horrifying things that occur, but maybe not in an overt horror movie way. There’s definitely some disturbing content in it.”

The forthcoming installment will feature a sequel to the Season 4 opener “USS Callister,” with Cristin Milioti, Jimmi Simpson, and Billy Magnussen returning to the mix. But they’re not the only familiar faces set to reappear this season.

Can you guess who else is returning to Black Mirror? Find the answer in the exclusive Season 7 image below.

Cristin Milioti is talking Made for Love.

The 39-year-old actress spoke out while promoting Black Mirror Season 7, in which she reprises her “U.S.S. Callister” role, and addressed the dark comedy that ran for two seasons on Max before it was removed from the library.

Billy Magnussen and Ray Romano also starred in the seriees, which featured Cristin as Hazel Green, a woman in a 10-year miserable marriage to a tech billionaire named Byron Gogol (Magnussen) who flees to her father’s (Romano) home and learns she has a tracking device embedded in her brain.

Keep reading to find out more…

“I have a lot of heartbreak over that series because that series… it’s locked in a vault right now. It was part of the tax write-off that [took place]— Westworld was taken off of Max at one point. And I think it was part of the whole thing that the Wile E.

[This story contains spoilers from Black Mirror season seven sequel “USS Callister: Into Infinity.”]

Cristin Milioti had just finished playing Sofia Falcone in The Penguin when she teleported back to the USS Callister spaceship for the Black Mirror sequel, “USS Callister: Into Infinity.”

The new season seven episode — which runs 90 minutes — was conceived by Netflix series creator-writer Charlie Brooker years ago. After first taking format as a spinoff series, the follow-up eventually became the film that is now streaming when plans changed amid the Hollywood strikes in 2023. Director Toby Haynes and nearly all of the cast returned for the sequel, which follows Milioti’s character, Nanette Cole, both in real life and inside Infinity, the immersive video game where she and her crew were unknowingly digitally cloned by the first episode’s villain Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons), the CEO of Infinity.

Of course, the world of her Batman super-villain and her USS Callister hero are quite different.

The seventh season of the anthology series Black Mirror dropped onto the Netflix streaming service earlier this month – and among its six episodes, for the first time in Black Mirror history, there was a sequel! The season 7 episode USS Callister: Into Infinity is a follow-up to the popular season 4 episode USS Callister, and Toby Haynes, who directed both of the USS Callister episodes, has revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he’s hoping to make this a trilogy!

Created and written by Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror is an anthology series that taps into our collective unease with the modern world, with each stand-alone episode a sharp, suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia leading to an unforgettable – and sometimes unsettling – conclusion. Without questioning it, technology has transformed all aspects of our lives; in every home; on every desk; in every palm – a plasma screen; a monitor; a Smartphone – a Black...

[This story contains spoilers from Black Mirror season seven sequel “USS Callister: Into Infinity.”]

After the first “USS Callister” released with the fourth season of Black Mirror in late 2017, director Toby Haynes told creator Charlie Brooker they had just made the best pilot for a space series. Brooker was initially hesitant to discuss spinoff potential for the extended 90-minute saga (which went on to win four Emmys), but it wasn’t long before the future of “Callister” began to look bright.

“They first talked to me about doing a season of ‘Callister’ back when I was doing Andor,” Haynes tells The Hollywood Reporter of the yearslong journey to bring “Callister” back to Netflix screens. Brooker initially shared with Haynes ideas for a “Callister” series, but after the Hollywood strikes in 2023 derailed production plans, Brooker and executive producer Jessica Rhoades quite literally aligned the planets of their star-studded ensemble and tranformed their follow-up into another 90-minute feature,...

Back in 2022, audiences took a journey through the dark, twisted, and hopeless streets of a reimagined Gotham City. While there are always big expectations behind any project involving the Caped Crusader, few could've imagined just how much of a masterpiece Matt Reeves' The Batman would be. Robert Pattinson's portrayal of the character was simply spot on, the narrative was filled with many twists and turns impossible to predict, and The Riddler was a great antagonist, even when he's a very difficult villain to adapt on the big screen. To say anticipation was at an all-time high to see more of these characters would be an understatement. Thankfully, fans got exactly what they wanted.

The Penguin HBO miniseries picked things up right where the movie left off. Lauren LeFranc crafted a dark and violent project that perfectly shines the spotlight on Cristin Milioti's Sofia Falcone and Colin Farrell's Oswald Cobblepot.

Netflix’s new medical series has been out for nearly two weeks now, and after debuting with poor scores from critics and audiences from Rotten Tomatoes, it has still been a win for the platform. Despite ratings of 46% from audiences and 52% from critics on the aggregate site, Pulse remains one of the most popular shows on Netflix, sitting at #4 on the streamer’s top TV chart. The show follows the personal and professional lives of doctors, nurses, and other staff at a busy Miami trauma center with a hurricane closing in. Pulse was written and created for television by Zoe Robyn, and it stars Willa Fitzgerald (Strange Darling), Jessie T. Usher (The Boys), Colin Woodell (The Continental), Jack Bannon (Pennyworth), and Jessy Yates (Law & Order: Svu).

Netflix’s Pulse released not long after The Pitt debuted on Max, and although Netflix boasts a lead over Max in terms of overall subscribers,...

Somewhere deep in Netflix HQ, there’s a boardroom that now smells faintly of champagne and profit. A room where someone just circled Episode 6 on a whiteboard, underlined it twice, and wrote “Franchise Potential?” in red marker like their bonus depended on it.

Because against all odds, and probably thanks to a few bold interns and one caffeine-fueled exec, Black Mirror Season 7, Episode 6 didn’t just land- it launched. Literally and financially. This episode didn’t hit screens with the usual Black Mirror warning sirens. It’s not here to crush your soul or make you swear off technology for a week.

Cristin Milioti in a still from Black Mirror Season 7 | Credits: Netflix

Instead, it served up a spacefaring sequel so slick, so fun, and so marketable it practically begged Netflix to exploit it. With spaceships, digital clones, evil CEOs, gamer logic, and a plot twist that would make a philosophy professor high-five a screenwriter,...

Cristin Milioti wants someone to dig through the archives and bring back Made for Love. While speaking to journalists, including TV Insider, in support of Black Mirror Season 7’s release, the actress was asked to comment on the dark comedy series, which ran for two seasons on HBO Max but was subsequently scrubbed from the streamer’s library. The show featured her alongside Billy Magnussen (another “Callister” returnee) and Ray Romano. Milioti starred in the series as Hazel Green, a woman in a 10-year miserable marriage to a tech billionaire named Byron Gogol (Magnussen) who flees to her father’s (Romano) home and learns she has a tracking device embedded in her brain. Season 2 concluded with her returning to Bryon’s lair in an effort to save her father’s life and facing an all-new technological threat. If that situation sounds a bit like an ...

The following article contains spoilers for Black Mirror Season 7, Episode 6, "USS Callister: Into Infinity"

Cristin Milioti reprises her role of Nanette Cole in the newly released season of Black Mirror, seemingly concluding her character's arc from Season 4. However, Milioti isn't completely shutting the door on a potential return to the hit anthology series.

Milioti and most of the cast from the fan-favorite Season 4 episode, "USS Callister", returned for Black Mirror's first-ever sequel episode in the newly released Season 7, providing some potential closure to a story series creator Charlie Brooker had been longing to finish. However, the feature-length sequel episode, "USS Callister: Into Infinity", may not be the end, according to Milioti. The ending of "USS Callister: Into Infinity" sees Nanette's clone finally escape the world of Infinity, having merged with her physical body in the real world. While her crew escapes as well, they appear to be stuck in Nanette's brain,...

The following contains spoilers for Black Mirror Season 7, episode 6, "USS Callister: Into Infinity"

Black MirrorSeason 7 contains the show's first-ever sequel episode, "USS Callister: Into Infinity," an epic feature-length conclusion to a story arc that started back in Season 4. However, series creator Charlie Brooker recently teased that, based on how the sequel episode ends, there may be another adventure for the USS Callister crew in a future season.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Brooker addressed whether he would return to make a "USS Callister" part three, considering how the sequel episode concludes. While Captain Nanette Cole (Cristin Milioti) finds a way to escape the video game world of Infinity by the end of the episode, her crew ends up being trapped inside her brain, providing a chance for a potential sequel episode, given the right story down the line. Brooker, who co-wrote "USS Callister: Into Infinity" alongside Bisha K. Ali,...

After the success of The Penguin, it was no surprise that many of us were asking if and when we would be getting a second season. Yet, it wasn’t really structured that way. Instead, it completely works as a standalone that both expanded on Oz Cobb in a complex way and helped set up The Batman 2. But we all know how often success leads to sequels, especially in the comic book universe. So what are Warner Bros.’ true plans?

Unfortunately for The Penguin fans, there are no official plans for the show to take flight by way of a second season. However, the studio isn’t ruling out the possibility of following up if everything falls in place. According to Channing Dungey, who serves as Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Television Group | Wbd US Networks (via Deadline), “The Penguin is one of those things where — and it’s interesting,...

“Black Mirror” is back and Season 7 brought six new episodes to hand-wring over.

The new season of Netflix’s sci-fi anthology series boasts some efforts into sequel territory and a return to the gut-punching past the original episodes of the series delivered. Whether you’re excited about the movie-length sequel to the beloved “USS Callister” episode or want to see what Paul Giamatti can cook up in this world, there’s a bevy of riches on offer.

Here are all six episodes from the latest season of “Black Mirror,” ranked from worst to best.

6. Playthings “Black Mirror” Season 7 (Photo Credit: Netflix)

“Playthings” might not be a full-on sequel to the 2018 interactive special “Bandersnatch” but it does bring back Will Poulter’s odd video game designer Colin Ritman – for all of one scene. The rest of the episode plays out as a sort of Tamagotchi gone bad scenario that never quite...

This article contains spoilers for "Black Mirror" season 7, episode 6 -- "USS Callister: Into Infinity"

When Netflix ordered "Black Mirror" season 7 with a sequel to one of the show's best episodes -- the season 4 opener, "USS Callister" -- fans of Charlie Brooker's dystopian sci-fi anthology perked up their ears. When the first trailer for the pitch-black show's newest season dropped, glimpses of high-octane shootouts and both versions of Nanette (Cristin Milioti) meeting face to face were more than enough to further intrigue the fandom. Now, "USS Callister: Into Infinity" is actually here, and it brings us one particularly big surprise: Jesse Plemons' villainous Robert Daly is back, and he's worse than ever.

The original "USS Callister" outdid the classic "The Twilight Zone" episode "It's a Good Life" by giving it a high tech twist. Daly is introduced as the chief technology officer of Callister, a company behind the online game "Infinity.

Jimmi Simpson is stepping back into the role of Walton for Black Mirror's "USS Callister — Into Infinity," the highly anticipated sequel to the Emmy-winning episode that originally aired in 2017. Simpson says this new chapter isn’t just a continuation — it’s essential.

“It makes everything more interesting and more pertinent,” he tells Gold Derby.

The sequel reunites Simpson with costar Cristin Milioti and director Toby Haynes, nearly a decade after the original episode debuted. Despite the nine-year gap, Simpson says slipping back into the role felt effortless.

“It was like the gang was back together,” he shares. “Just a little bit older.”

Before being cast in "USS Callister," Simpson, best known for his role on HBO's Westworld, was already a die-hard fan of the Charlie Brooker-created anthology series and could hardly believe it when he landed the role of Walton.

“I was driving home, and on my phone...

When it was first announced, The Penguin was set to be a one-season spin-off that would further explore the Gotham City established by Matt Reevesin The Batman. At the end of the film, Carmine Falcone (John Turturro) has been assassinated, which leaves a massive space open for the city’s other aspiring crime lords to step in. Picking up shortly after the events of the film, The Penguin sees Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) do everything in his power to claim that open seat, and shows him facing off against other rising bosses like Cristin Milioti’s Sofia and Clancy Brown’s Sal — often to explosive outcomes. By the time the miniseries celebrated its finale, the title was a hit with fans and critics alike, holding an 85% approval rating with the former and a 95% approval rating with the latter on Rotten Tomatoes. In the months since its November bow, audiences have...

The world of Black Mirror is back. The screens are darker, the stories more poignant, and the questions more uncomfortable than ever. As we head into this new season, a name appears behind the curtain once again. A familiar name. The same man who has been wreaking havoc on our minds for the past ten years. Yes, Black Mirror Season 7 is Charlie Brooker’s masterpiece once again.

Season 7 brings new fears. New realities. A reflection of the world we live in and the horror we’re heading into. Each episode is like a window. But one that doesn’t look out of, but one that stares back at you. Charlie Brooker isn’t just the creator of Black Mirror.

He’s a cultural alarm bell. A man who turns anxiety into art. Who shows us our true selves through screens, through satire, and terrifying shadows.

How Charlie Brooker made sarcasm...

Season 7 of Black Mirror dropped April 10 on Netflix after a two-year break. English showrunner Charlie Brooker wrote or cowrote all of the episodes, as usual. He's a five-time Emmy winner for writing and producing "San Junipero" in 2017, writing and producing "USS Callister" in 2018, and producing "Bandersnatch" in 2019. He received a sixth career Emmy nomination last year for writing "Joan Is Awful," but lost to Richard Gadd (Baby Reindeer).

Speaking of "Bandersnatch" and "USS Callister," Season 7 marks the first time Black Mirror has revisited previous storylines in the form of cameo and a sequel, respectively. Will Poulter's computer programmer character Colin Ritman was featured in the interactive "Bandersnatch" and now returns with a small role in "Plaything." Meanwhile, "USS Callister: Into Infinity" is a full-on sequel to the original outer space installment, with Cristin Milioti and Jimmi Simpson reprising their crew members of the titular starship.

As for the other new episodes,...

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In Black Mirror, nothing—especially tech-fueled dystopia—stays dead forever. Life always finds a way. Sometimes in creatively horrifying ways. Ways that keep people up at night.

The series’ seventh season lands on Netflix this month, marking an end to the drought we were all going through. With Season 7 having dropped, all eyes are on a Season 8, if there is going to be a Season 8, and so much more. Read on to know more.

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Black Mirror’s previous season dropped on the streamer in 2023 with five episodes telling stories about the true crime documentary pipeline. With reports that the ideas of musicals and cinema-esque ideas are being explored, we are in for the ride of a lifetime.

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Black Mirror season 7 is one of the most buzzy seasons the anthology series has had in a long time. With two sequels to acclaimed prior entries and a cast list that includes plenty of recognizable names, this season had the potential to be an absolute knockout — something we haven’t had from Black Mirror in quite a while.

One of the things that will stand out to fans about season 7 of Black Mirror is that it has much less of a horror focus than past seasons. Of this season’s episodes, three are dramas, one is action, one is a thriller, and only one (Plaything) could really be described as straight horror. Perhaps series creator Charlie Brooker took the criticisms of season 6 having too much horror and not enough sci-fi to heart.

As a whole, this season was mostly very strong. The concepts of all six episodes are incredibly intriguing,...