Jeremy Clarkson says the fifth season of Clarkson’s Farm might be the last, and the production crew will definitely take a break before considering any sixth outing for his hit Amazon Prime show.
Clarkson’s adventures on his own farm in the UK’s Cotswolds countryside have proved a hit with viewers across the world, with season four about to debut on the streaming platform, but Clarkson is ready to let the camera crew go home for a bit after production completes on season five, currently filming.
He told The Times of London: “I’d do a sixth if there was a reason for doing it, like a bloody good story… Whatever happens we’ll definitely take a short break as the crews are all worn out. We’ve been filming here two or three days a week, every week, for five years. Everybody could do with a rest.”
Season four, with storylines including Clarkson’s purchase of a local pub that went through typical TV-friendly teething problems with local planning authorities, will no doubt prove as popular as previous chapters, but Clarkson admits he had no confidence that, following his success presenting car shows Top Gear (BBC) and The Grand Tour (Amazon Prime), audiences would seek out his new farming incarnation.
Clarkson told The Times: “I did think it’d serve up gentle disappointment to the Top Gear, Grand Tour audience. I very much was typecast as this man who drove around corners too quickly while shouting and using hyperbole to make a point. I thought, why would anybody who watches Top Gear or The Grand Tour want to watch this bucolic show about farming?
“Then they did and it brought a whole new audience who’d never watched a single programme I’d made. It’s massively popular in China. A huge number of Chinese people come to the farm shop and the pub. I said to one of them the other day, ‘Why do you like it?’ He said, ‘We watch it because we cannot believe how incompetent you are.’”
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