Reply With QuoteLove it, a Clarkson fan here
Oh yeah! May 3rd.
Love it, a Clarkson fan here
Brill, can't wait.
Great Telly that.
Super enjoyable so really looking forward to seeing this.
Not watching the spoiler trailer they put out but I will watch the show.
Cutting yourself very badly slicing a Potato does not look good for his future avoiding Farm accidents though.
You can easily lose a limb or worse messing with farm machinery.
Looks brilliant, can’t wait for that
Good spot!
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
I've just seen a trailer (different to then one in the OP's post); Kaleb's comment near the beginning - brilliant! I'm looking forward to this.
See here: https://fb.watch/rB6ibfntYF/
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The best thing Clarkson has done in years, possibly ever.
So clever my foot fell off.
He did a superb series on military heroes and incidents in WWII. Here's a link to one of them. If you can't watch it all, watch the last 5-minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbS4...Lq8SB4&index=3Originally Posted by TheFlyingBanana
That series was a good one indeed! Didn't he do a short documentary about Brunel as well?
Interestingly, all three GT presenters separately are capable of making good series, worth watching. Both on TV and YT.
I binge watched the last 2 seasons and all I can say is wow, what a winner.
Whilst I suspect most of it is staged it’s still great entertainment. Much better than CountyFile.
Really looking forward to the next instalment.
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Fully agree, definitely a winner, and apparently so for the farming community aswell.
Some of it is staged, the buying of the Lamborghini tractor being an obvious example, but overall he is genuinely trying to make the farm work.
CountryFile only any good for the scenery usually.
CountryFile is the BBC version of the countryside for city folks.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Not a bad analogy.
I will add this to the watch list, enjoyed the first 2 series.
Been watching Vinny Jones in the country recently which has been enjoyable too.
Great news
‘Gentleman Farmer’ demonstrating that to make a small fortune farming then you need to start out with a larger one.
A sort of Top Gear meets The Archers in many ways.
Enjoyable nonsense all the same.
I still wince when I remember what he did to his thumb on the vegetable slicer...
I was thinking that as well, however, I don't see Caleb doing things '... because the script says so...' . Editing will help, I presume, but it still comes over as natural. And when Clarkson's goal was/is to show how difficult farming is, well... than he's very successful showing it to us.
I wonder if Gerald will have subtitles……
I learned quite a bit about farming from Clarkson's Farm.
Can I also recommend "Harry's Farm" on YouTube. Harry Metcalfe has a channel where he takes us through events on his farm (he & Jeremy are neighbours). I found this very informative as well.
I’ve seen a bit of Harry’s Farm as well, but it’s still a millionaire playing at farming.
I know Countryfile got a bit of stick earlier in the thread for being ‘countryside for Townies’, but farm portrayal is a lot more realistic on it from what I’ve seen, covering Adam’s large farm through to hill farmers earning a subsistence living.
I can see why Clarkson’s Farm is more entertaining though, but I wouldn’t say it’s a typical farm, but has brought farming into the spotlight again.
He started working on a farm at the age of 18.
No doubt, and I was working on one at 14, that wasn’t really my point.
If anything, Harry Metcalfe is a ‘non farmers farmer’ more than anything that countryfile do.
I like him, I like his car stuff as well, and have been a subscriber to Evo magazine since issue 1, but he has a huge secondary income and I think even he would say he’s not an average or typical farmer.
So, it’s no more a realistic portrayal of farming than Clarkson’s setup, but agree it helps folk unfamiliar with the issues to think about farming and food production.
I agree with your points, Harry's probably not your typical farmer. He has though, taught me a lot more about farming than I knew before, some things I'd never thought of, that can't be bad. Didn't Clarkson win an award for bringing farmers' lives & issues to peoples' attention?
Yes, ‘Flying the Flag for British Agriculture’ wasn’t it, at the British Farming Awards industry bash?
Not saying he hasn’t put farming in the spotlight, but it is but one particular perspective, and there are plenty of others.
Debt kills farms in my experience, the one I grew up next to was largely debt free, a third generation farmer, and the good years more than made up for the not so good years. A farm I worked on in my spare time at college/Uni was a tenant farm, and all his kit was borrowed for or leased. He eventually sold up to pay everything off before the stress killed him.
Yep, definitely more than one perspective in the spectrum (if that's not a mixed metaphor). I do like the fact that people who might not normally think about where their food comes from might now do so after seeing this show...
Looking forward to it again.
Yep, agreed, a good topic for people to think about!
It doesn’t need to be staged or scripted to be entertaining and I don’t believe it is. JC has worked in television for longer than I’ve been alive and he’s very good at it.
Like a great musician who knows how to write a hit song, Clarkson knows how to make a hit tv show. He has an instinct for ‘that’ll make good tv’ and makes decisions based upon that without the need to over think it, or write it.
There’s always going to be a structure to work to - such as this year we’re going to try rearing an animal we’ve no idea about, and see what happens. If it goes well, great tv, if it goes really badly, great tv. Either way it’ll be entertaining and we’ll all be invested in the journey and learn a little along the way.
I’m looking forward to watching it unfold this year.
Episode 2:
Kaleb: Were you in a band?
Andy Cato: I was in a band
Kaleb: I can tell
Andy Cato: How?
Kaleb: You've left your engine running at £1 a litre!
Kaleb really is comedy gold.
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