Clarkson’s Farm is on the cusp of returning for a model new season – however its producer has opened up concerning the present’s legacy, addressing the reason why it will one day end.
Jeremy Clarkson will return for season five as early as subsequent month, and just lately mentioned he’d solely make the now-confirmed sixth season if “there was a good story” to give attention to.
Looking forward, producer Andy Wilman, Clarkson’s long-time collaborator, has confirmed that the Prime Video series has a finite life and will solely proceed so long as Clarkson desires it to.
The present’s deal with the streaming platform is finished on a “rolling basis”, that means the crew is just contractually obliged to finish the season they’re presently filming, which will make sure the present goes out on a excessive.
“You can’t have that thing where you have done one series too many and people say, ‘That’s bollocks now, it’s a busted flush,’ Wilman told Extraordinary Life Stories podcast. So you have to discipline yourself to say, ‘We end this now while we still have an audience.’”
Wilman mentioned that “every series we have is a bonus”, including: “If Jeremy can’t think of anything to do or say, then that would be the end of it – it hasn’t happened yet, but that’s the agreement he has with Amazon.”
He continued: “This is our third big show – Top Gear kind of got ended for us, I can’t say that was a plan.
“The Grand Tour, we brought that to an end, we planned that – we thought we have to land the plane while we’re still in the air and dignified and we’ve still got an audience.”
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Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond’s on-screen relationship came to an end with the final episode of The Grand Tour in September 2024. They joined the series after leaving Top Gear in 2015.
However, The Grand Tour will return with new hosts, YouTubers Thomas Holland and James Engelsman, greatest recognized for his or her motoring content material, in addition to social media star and practice fanatic Francis Bourgeois.
Wilman mentioned of all of the exhibits he’s labored on with Clarkson, it’s Clarkson’s Farm that’s “the most joyous thing to edit”.
However, the brand new season will characteristic its most heartbreaking scenes but, with episodes anticipated to give attention to the outbreak of bovine tuberculosis, which struck the Cotswolds farm in October 2025.
Bovine TB (bTB) is a continual respiratory illness brought on by a bacterium known as Mycobacterium bovis. The illness will be catastrophic for farmers and forces the culling of contaminated cattle. Due to a bTB incident in England between October 2021 and September 2022, 22,934 cows have been killed.
This outbreak of bTB was an enormous setback in 2025 and noticed Clarkson’s Diddly Squat farm face a 12 months of climate-driven disasters. The presenter known as it the “worst year ever”, citing a “shocking” harvest on account of heatwaves and drought within the UK.
Clarkson purchased the now-famous land in 2008 and, after the villager who ran the farm retired in 2019, he determined to see if he may run it himself – a enterprise tracked in Clarkson’s Farm.
It has turn out to be one of Prime Video’s most-streamed TV exhibits and in July 2024, Clarkson prolonged his enterprise empire by taking up rural country pub The Windmill in Asthall – a “village boozer” on 5 acres of countryside close to Burford.
