Archive · 25 Aug 2026
Black Mirror Season 8 Enters Production as Netflix Renews Series
Black Mirror is making an eighth season of its unusual dystopian stories.
Filming started this summer, but nobody has announced when viewers can watch it.
Charlie Brooker, who created the show, is helping write and produce it.
Netflix also renewed a drama called Legends.
Legends is about undercover customs officers working in Britain in the late 1990s.
Its new season will have six episodes and involve a major drugs threat.
Netflix renewed Being Gordon Ramsay as well.
That show follows Gordon Ramsay as he manages restaurants, businesses, and family life.
Filming for the eighth season of Black Mirror began this summer, but Netflix has not announced a release date.
Charlie Brooker is returning as writer and executive producer, alongside several other producers.
Netflix renewed Neil Forsyth’s drama Legends for a six-episode second season entering production next year.
Legends follows undercover customs officers confronting a new drugs threat in late-1990s Britain.
Being Gordon Ramsay was also renewed for a second season and is already in production for a return next year.
- Who
- Netflix, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker, Neil Forsyth, and Gordon Ramsay are central to the announcements.
- What
- Black Mirror entered production for Season 8, while Legends and Being Gordon Ramsay received second-season renewals.
- When
- Black Mirror filming began this summer; Legends is scheduled to enter production next year; Being Gordon Ramsay is expected to return next year.
- Where
- Legends is set in Britain in the late 1990s; the articles do not specify where the productions are filming.
- Why
- Netflix confirmed the projects as part of its upcoming television programming; the articles do not give a specific reason for the renewals.
- Black Mirror status
- Season 8 is officially in production, with filming having begun this summer.
- Black Mirror release
- No confirmed release date has been announced.
- Black Mirror creator
- Charlie Brooker is writing and executive producing the season.
- Legends format
- Season 2 will consist of six episodes.
- Legends production
- Production is scheduled to begin next year.
- Being Gordon Ramsay
- The reality series has been renewed for Season 2, with production already underway.
- Production companies
- Legends is produced by Tannadice Pictures in association with Lion Television.