Clarkson's Farm (2021)
Clarkson's Farm is a 2021 reality series. It stars Jeremy Clarkson, Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland.
Jeremy Clarkson, a man who cheerfully claims to be allergic to manual labour, decides to run a 1,000-acre farm in the Cotswolds. Predictably, the most hands-on job imaginable does not go smoothly. Across the seasons he wrangles tractors, livestock, weather and mountains of paperwork, mostly by ignoring the advice of the people who actually know what they are doing: young contractor Kaleb Cooper, land agent Charlie Ireland and his partner Lisa Hogan. Filmed on his real Chipping Norton land, the series turns British farming into equal parts comedy and unexpectedly moving education.
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What is Clarkson's Farm about?
Jeremy Clarkson, a man who cheerfully claims to be allergic to manual labour, decides to run a 1,000-acre farm in the Cotswolds. Predictably, the most hands-on job imaginable does not go smoothly. Across the seasons he wrangles tractors, livestock, weather and mountains of paperwork, mostly by ignoring the advice of the people who actually know what they are doing: young contractor Kaleb Cooper, land agent Charlie Ireland and his partner Lisa Hogan. Filmed on his real Chipping Norton land, the series turns British farming into equal parts comedy and unexpectedly moving education.
When was Clarkson's Farm released?
Clarkson's Farm was released on 11 June 2021.
How many episodes does Clarkson's Farm have?
Clarkson's Farm has 40 episodes across 5 seasons.
Where can I watch Clarkson's Farm?
Clarkson's Farm is available on Prime Video.
Where to watch Clarkson's Farm
Stream: Prime Video
Cast
- Jeremy Clarkson as Self - Host
- Kaleb Cooper as Self - Farmer
- Charlie Ireland as Self - Land Agent
- Lisa Hogan as Self
- Gerald Cooper as Self - Head of security
- Alan Townsend as Self - Builder
- Dilwyn Evans as Self - Vet
- Ellen Helliwell as Self - Shepherdess
- Kevin Harrison as Self - NSA Representative
- Tim Coles as Self - Cow breeder
- Paddy Bourns as Self - Cackleberry farm owner
- Harriet Cowan as Self - Farmer
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A few thoughts on Clarkson's Farm
If the mix of self-inflicted chaos and genuine graft lands, The Grand Tour offers the same Jeremy Clarkson bravado on wheels, while James May's gentler solo shows scratch a similar British-eccentric itch. For the farming heart of it, the long tradition of countryside documentary keeps that soil-under-the-nails honesty going.
British sitcoms built on everyday incompetence and bickering
Clarkson's Farm mines big comedy from small daily disasters, a man cheerfully out of his depth and squabbling with everyone who actually knows the job. These British sitcoms run on the same everyday incompetence and sniping, following flatmates, schemers and prisoners who somehow turn ordinary life into an ongoing catastrophe.
Famous faces and city folk thrown into rural chaos
Watching Jeremy Clarkson wrangle tractors, livestock and paperwork is watching a famous man dumped somewhere he does not belong. These shows share that fish-out-of-water charge, from a Manhattan lawyer trading the city for a farm, celebrities suffering through the wilderness, a rock family filmed in chaos, and the backroad mischief of small-town Hazzard.