When will Black Mirror season 4 be released?

Frustratingly, Netflix has not yet confirmed when Black Mirror season four will be released but it is understood that the series will be out before the end of 2018.

What we do know is that six new episodes are coming soon, with the full season expected to drop by the end of the year.

And Netflix has teased the fourth season by releasing a trailer for episode three, Hang the DJ, hinting at a very bleak outlook for romantic relationships in the future.

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.

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.

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.

Episode five, Metalhead, is Black Mirror’s first-ever black and white film. Little else is known about the episode.

The season finale, Black Museum, is an anthology within the anthology.

Like White Christmas, it features three separate stories, and is a “a portmanteau-type thing”.

Jones teased: “It’s absolutely full of ideas that whip along and before you know it you’re at the end of a 90-minute film and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, can you please stop? This is horrendous – stop throwing me these things!”