'Black Mirror' creator Charlie Brooker says the anthology series has become easier to write for in an increasingly dystopian world.
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00:00No, because I don't know if you've looked out the window recently, but it's quite dystopian
00:15out there.
00:16No, I mean, yes, it has moved on a lot, and there's lots of things we did in early episodes
00:20that are now almost commonplace, or are now, have kind of become true.
00:26I think as technology gets more sophisticated, I think people's, the average person's everyday
00:34experience of technology is more sophisticated, so it probably means you can actually tell
00:38slightly more complicated stories.
00:40You don't have to explain the technology to the viewer so much anymore.
00:44So certainly it throws up constant new ideas all the time, I think, so we've got a season
00:50coming out, and I think there's quite a few ideas in there that I wouldn't have thought
00:54of ten years ago.
01:04It is, actually, in many ways, well last season it was sort of actually started out as a totally
01:08different, it was going to be Red Mirror, it was all going to be horror stories, and
01:12then I came up with one that very much wasn't, and I sort of backtracked.
01:15This time around, they're all sort of OG technology stories.
01:25I mean, I don't know, I won't be the judge of that, but ultimately if no one watches
01:31or someone pulls the plug, I mean, it's good for me, so I'd like to keep doing it, because
01:36it means I'm constantly challenged to come up with new stories, so it's a fun job for
01:43me, so I don't know until I drop dead or people get sick of it.
01:48Thank you very much, thank you.