Black Mirror is coming back for more... and then some more besides.

Six new episodes of the chilling anthology series will drop on Netflix on October 21.

But speaking at a London Film Festival event, producer Annabel Jones confirmed that there's "another season coming up too".

Of course, if you've been paying attention, you'd know this already – when Netflix poached the series from Channel 4, it ordered 12 new episodes.

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So with six instalments dropping this month, that means another six are being held back for a later date.

"Netflix allows us to play out on a bigger canvas and take more risks and explore more worlds, without destabilising the Black Mirror sensibility," Jones said of the show's new home.

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The last Black Mirror episode – a bleak Christmas special starring Jon Hamm – aired on Channel 4 in December 2014, following two series in 2011 and 2013.

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"The gaps in between seasons were probably just due to other projects that we've been doing," clarified Jones, appearing alongside series creator Charlie Brooker.

The third series of Black Mirror has an all-star cast on board, with everyone from James Norton to Bryce Dallas Howard to Jerome Flynn signing up to scare us senseless.

Brooker was originally inspired by spooky anthology series of yesteryear, including The Twilight Zone and Tales of the Unexpected.

"There's more good TV than there has ever been and there's a lot more choice," he told Digital Spy back in 2011.

"But there's also a lot of shows that seemed to be aimed at giving you exactly what you saw last week, but with slightly different hats on."

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