Topic: Clarkson's Farm

[nuts100]

Yeah it's hilarious mate 😂

What part of lancs are you from then?

I like to say Lytham St.Annes. Fylde coast 

[reddebs]

I like to say Lytham St.Annes. Fylde coast 

A lot of rugby players from that area 😁

I'm West Lancs not far from Ormskirk.

[Drinks Sangria]

I grew up in a Lancashire town where the “young farmers” went every year for a piss up. Christ they were big bastards and as strong as an ox. The local police and bouncers never bothered them, let them sort their own issues out 😂

Great bunch of lads that just drank like fish all weekend

I wasn't a farmer but if I wanted to socialise with people my age, I had to go to these. Major piss ups, some of these farmers could drink unbelievable amounts even as teenagers and as you say, some seriously powerful units.

It was a lot more frequent than a year though. Again, I stood out like a sore thumb by not wearing the farmer's uniform of plum chinos, check shirt, schoffel and boat shoes. My slight scouse accent used to stand out too, they all had this homogenised 'village' voice.

[The G in Gerrard]

Up there with some of Prime's best shows.

[wampa1]

Timely reminder for everyone who thought Clarkson was alright now because they liked his tele show:

Jeremy Clarkson hits out at Covid scientists and lockdowns: ‘If you die, you die’

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/jeremy-clarkson-covid-lockdown-b1895634.html?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1627970977

[Drinks Sangria]

Timely reminder for everyone who thought Clarkson was alright now because they liked his tele show:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/jeremy-clarkson-covid-lockdown-b1895634.html?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1627970977

Ridiculous, given in the show itself he professes how worried he is and given his age, past as a smoker and underlying health conditions, he'd be fucked if he caught it.

[OOS]

Gerald was the highlight of the show. Need more people like him on telly, proper character.

[TepidT2O]

Timely reminder for everyone who thought Clarkson was alright now because they liked his tele show:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/jeremy-clarkson-covid-lockdown-b1895634.html?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1627970977

Timely reminder of how selectively picking quotes can totally change the meaning of them.

What he actually said was…..

if it’s going to be forever, let’s open it up and if you die, you die”.

I get the reason people dislike clarkson, but what he has said is in no way what he’s been accused of saying.

[kaesarsosei]

Clarkson was alright now

See how this works now? Get a grip.

[Joff]

Ridiculous, given in the show itself he professes how worried he is and given his age, past as a smoker and underlying health conditions, he'd be fucked if he caught it.

He did get it, early this year I think

[Andy @ Allerton!]

A second series has been announced.

Is that your final answer?

[nuts100]

https://www.farminguk.com/news/farmers-hail-jeremy-clarkson-for-championing-british-farming_59128.html?fbclid=IwAR2pxZIlF2nU49JG6n9I75dbYCxsXHNmceoXLfY64-A7ooquY5EvKmOvtWE

[TepidT2O]

They’re right, country file is the most sterile programme you’ll ever see.

[S]

Two episodes in. It’s alright but I don’t see what the fuss is about. Quite obviously scripted, which is normal for such a programme but this is too obvious in parts. Does it get better?

[Buck Pete]

A second series has been announced.

The shits

[John C]

Does it get better?

I'll say yes mate. I can't stand the bloke and I didn't think much of the concept but my daughter made me watch it and it was enjoyable overall.

[Andy @ Allerton!]

Two episodes in. It’s alright but I don’t see what the fuss is about. Quite obviously scripted, which is normal for such a programme but this is too obvious in parts. Does it get better?

Not sure quite what you're expecting in a series about a clueless bloke knowing nothing about farming and how he reacts to it

He actually seems to 'get' a few things during the course of the programme which is very un-Clarksmanlike

[S]

Not sure quite what you're expecting in a series about a clueless bloke knowing nothing about farming and how he reacts to it

He actually seems to 'get' a few things during the course of the programme which is very un-Clarksmanlike

I just think it's way too obviously scripted in parts. Like he unloads one single bag of grain from a massive truck and says, "Right, all done. Thanks very much!" and then is confronted with about fifty more. It's sitcom-esque in it's setting up. All these shows are staged for comedic effect, but it just happens to be very transparent in this one.

However...

I'll say yes mate. I can't stand the bloke and I didn't think much of the concept but my daughter made me watch it and it was enjoyable overall.

...enough people have said things like this, so I will carry on with an open mind.

[Andy @ Allerton!]

I just think it's way too obviously scripted in parts. Like he unloads one single bag of grain from a massive truck and says, "Right, all done. Thanks very much!" and then is confronted with about fifty more. It's sitcom-esque in it's setting up. All these shows are staged for comedic effect, but it just happens to be very transparent in this one.

However......enough people have said things like this, so I will carry on with an open mind.

Well it's clearly scripted - I'd be surprised - amazed even if it weren't

But there seemed to some genuine feeling and a change in his demeanor with a couple of tearful events through the series and it was really interesting into how farms work, what farmers do and how they have to try and make money against the odds.

[The G in Gerrard]

Season one was much better than I expected for and Clarkson came across as likeable (which was a surprise to me).

[bradders1011]

Anybody tried his lager? Presume it was the brewery he sold the grain to.

[reddebs]

Well it's clearly scripted - I'd be surprised - amazed even if it weren't

But there seemed to some genuine feeling and a change in his demeanor with a couple of tearful events through the series and it was really interesting into how farms work, what farmers do and how they have to try and make money against the odds.

He seemed to be confused that he couldn't just throw a load of money at it and make a fortune but I agree that by the end of it his whole attitude and demeanor had changed to more empathetic than bullish arrogance.

That's got to be a rarity for him.

[Nitramdorf]

Second series in the new year and a third has been commissioned

https://www.ismyshowcancelled.com/article/2022-10-28/clarksons-farm-renewed-for-season-3/

[Drinks Sangria]

From a subsidies perspective it will be interesting to see the spreadsheet stuff next season - they made out that season one made no money (the farm itself not the show) but it did leave out the massive EU subsidy they would’ve automatically been granted that would have made the farm about £200k profit all things told. That’s with Clarkson having wasted a load of money on stupid schemes and of course the fact that Amazon will swallow any losses in aid of making money on the TV Show.

That subsidy is over now so unless Amazon are willing for the farm to run at several hundred thousand loss (which they likely are after the popularity of the content) then there will probably be more experienced hands in the background actually ensuring some of the farm is profitable. I do likely think that it’s position as a testing bed for entertaining schemes and the content it produces for the show is really all Amazon will care about though.

They did a good job showing the importance of English farming so maybe next season will shed light on the challenges farmer’s face without EU-driven money. What I will say is that I’ve never known a farmer that wasn’t romping round in a new Defender, Discovery or Range Rover when in their own time.

[Statto Red]

Series 2 is up, & still good watch, although i'm one episode in.

[iamnant]

Binged the whole thing in more or less one go: the exposure it gives to farming, their struggles and how tough it is, the sheer weight of politics involved and the red tape obsessed petty councils of the UK make it a very important show.

Although being from a rural Welsh farming community, I can't even begin to describe how different posh English farmers are to north Walian ones!

[TepidT2O]

Binged the whole thing in more or less one go: the exposure it gives to farming, their struggles and how tough it is, the sheer weight of politics involved and the red tape obsessed petty councils of the UK make it a very important show.

Although being from a rural Welsh farming community, I can't even begin to describe how different posh English farmers are to north Walian ones!

Yeah… they are…

But I bet you know people like Caleb and Gerald…. I did when I was growing up…

[iamnant]

Yeah… they are…

But I bet you know people like Caleb and Gerald…. I did when I was growing up…

Yes I very much know the types, you're right. The guy who farms on our land speaks a north Walian version of Gerald's mumblings -- I understand about 50% of it, the (mainly Cheshire and Manc) tourists who stay on the campsite understand 0%.

[TepidT2O]

Yes I very much know the types, you're right. The guy who farms on our land speaks a north Walian version of Gerald's mumblings -- I understand about 50% of it, the (mainly Cheshire and Manc) tourists who stay on the campsite understand 0%.

I got the  Shropshire version growing up… some for the hills are totally unintelligible

[Henry Gale]

Watched the second series yesterday and loved it just as much as the first. Kaleb and Charlie are brilliant.

Some of the stuff the council were doing was shocking!! They really don’t want him there do they!!

Hope they make a third series.

[PeterJM]

Watched the second series yesterday and loved it just as much as the first. Kaleb and Charlie are brilliant.

Some of the stuff the council were doing was shocking!! They really don’t want him there do they!!

Hope they make a third series.

3rd series already being filmed now.

[Red Beret]

I'll say yes mate. I can't stand the bloke and I didn't think much of the concept but my daughter made me watch it and it was enjoyable overall.

Clarkson is a bit of a paradox. He's an excellent writer, presenter and storyteller. Some of his documentaries, especially on the Victoria Cross and the St Nazaire Raid, are absolutely gripping. But he's also a Grade A cnut of a man and strikes me as very difficult to like.

You have to pick your poison I guess.

[Musketeer Gripweed]

You can't script or stage stuff like the council meetings, the calves being born and the finger incident. Yeah, the finger incident. Glad I wasn't eating at the time.

Hopefully will finish this tonight.

I don't like him, but this show is definitely worth a watch.

[Statto Red]

Clarkson is a bit of a paradox. He's an excellent writer, presenter and storyteller. Some of his documentaries, especially on the Victoria Cross and the St Nazaire Raid, are absolutely gripping. But he's also a Grade A cnut of a man and strikes me as very difficult to like.

You have to pick your poison I guess.

Yep, Clarkson is like a professional troll, then his documentaries & stuff like this are gripping.

 Seems like Amazon are dropping Clarkson when the Amazon contract is up next year, wouldn't be surprised if they called it a day for the grand tour, Hammond & May still have their own shows, as does Clarkson.

[Andy @ Allerton!]

I'm not a Royalist in any sense of the word, but I always thought Clarkson was a complete and utter fucking prick.

I watched the first series kind of by accident, but after the first episode was really into it. He even turned his imagine around with Millionaire.

But this latest shite from that fucking rag has made me not want to bother watching the new series. Probably won't ever.

Not sure if that makes me a snowflake or not, but he's a complete gobshite.

[The G in Gerrard]

The council are ridiculous & are preventing small businesses from succeeding.

Season 2 was outstanding. Every individual is likeable & so much information about stuff I never knew about.

Will there be another?

[TepidT2O]

The council are ridiculous & are preventing small businesses from succeeding.

Season 2 was outstanding. Every individual is likeable & so much information about stuff I never knew about.

Will there be another?

Yes, season 3 is already being filmed

[Statto Red]

The council are ridiculous & are preventing small businesses from succeeding.

Season 2 was outstanding. Every individual is likeable & so much information about stuff I never knew about.

Will there be another?

I do wonder if it's because Clarkson is involved, the local council are taking a hard line out of spite, as some of the planning refusals [like the farm track] are really petty?

[The G in Gerrard]

Yes, season 3 is already being filmed

Excellent!

I do wonder if it's because Clarkson is involved, the local council are taking a hard line out of spite, as some of the planning refusals [like the farm track] are really petty?

It really is petty. Nothing to do with the farm itself but the individual himself imo. That little restaurant that's been closed as well.

The opposing solicitor apparently said half the farm will be a car park? It's just stuff being made up to suit themselves.

[Nitramdorf]

I did read somewhere that someone set up a crowdfunder for the poor lady who lost half her cows and delivered the milk to the shop. I believe she got something like thirty grand.

Another lady was watching it and just decided to do it.