The latest season of a hit Netflix show will feature familiar Kent scenes when it premieres this week.

Black Mirror – which first aired on Channel 4 before it was picked up by the streaming giant in 2016 – gives audiences a glimpse into a dystopian future.

Season seven hit screens on Thursday, with eagle-eyed viewers able to spot locations in Herne Bay, Whitstable and Tankerton, where parts of episode five were filmed.

Called ‘Eulogy’, the Kent Film Office says the “production visited Kent to film an episode exploring past memories”.

The synopsis for the hour-long piece featuring Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti and Patsy Ferran reads: "An innovative system that enables users to literally step into photographic memories of the past leads a lonely man to re-examine a heartbreaking period from his past."

Beacon House in Whitstable, Tankerton Beach and Herne Bay Pier are all expected to appear.

Giamatti plays Philip, a former musician asked to contribute his memories of an old flame for her funeral.

Using the Eulogy app, Philip explores his memories but soon comes to realise the picture he had painted of the woman who jilted him years ago might not be entirely accurate.

It is not the first time crews of the popular show have used Kent in production, with three previous episodes making use of the county.

Most recently, Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul delighted fans by spending two weeks in Kent in the summer of 2022 ahead of his turn in the series as astronaut Cliff in ‘Beyond the Sea’.

Swale, Dungeness and Chilham were all used in filming the A-list actor’s episode, while his trip to an off-licence in search of his own Mexican-style mezcal was described as “utterly random” by shop owner Ross Bell, who said Paul told him he was in the UK filming.

Episode five of the fourth series, 'MetalHead', directed by David Slade, was partly filmed at a private property in Harrietsham, near Maidstone, in April 2017.

Although viewers were led to believe the characters were in an empty post-apocalyptic world in the Scottish Moors, on occasion they were in the Kentish village.

Fairbourne Reservoir East featured as the empty house in which Bella, played by Maxine Peake, sought refuge.

In 2018, crews were also spotted shooting scenes for their fifth series in Jeskyns, Henhurst Road, Cobham.

The much-loved show, devised by Charlie Brooker, is just one of the latest big-budget productions to be filmed in the county in recent times.

Last year, Netflix crews were seen in Rochester alongside actor Dominic West as they transformed the Medway town to look like mid-noughties Windsor for hit series The Crown.

Film crews from Universal Pictures were spotted at East Cliff in Folkestone last week, with bosses keeping the project a secret.