Clarkson's Farm series five could drop next month - with an added 'joyous' surprise

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The new series of Clarkson’s Farm is set to come out next month, according to the show’s producer.

Jeremy Clarkson fans have been eagerly waiting to find out when series five will drop on Prime Video after series four wrapped up last year.

The TV star, 65, revealed in October that the upcoming series will be his toughest yet , describing it as “a conveyor belt of misery”.

Producer Andy Wilman has now said the new series could be released as early as next month - and will come with a special festive element.

“There’s a scene in the pub which happens at Christmas time and there isn’t a lot of farming going on and it’s a little bit Vicar of Dibley Christmas special-ish as the stories are there,” he said on the Extraordinary Life Stories podcast.

“Jeremy wants to make a Santa’s grotto so he has a meeting with Charlie talking about what he wants to do and I think that is the best scene I’ve ever, ever seen them do and I remember the editor and I looking at each other saying ‘this is the best television to make ever’ when it goes out you’ll see what I mean.”
Wilman went on: “Then Kaleb [Cooper] and Jeremy build the grotto together and Kaleb’s view on the creation of mankind is blindingly brilliant.”
Wilman, who was the producer on Clarkson’s previous motoring shows Top Gear and The Grand Tour, also explained that the Clarkson’s Farm deal with Prime is done on a “rolling basis”.

“This is our third big show – Top Gear kind of got ended for us, I can’t say that was a plan,” he said.

“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.

“You can’t have that thing where you have done one series too many and people say ‘that’s b******s now, it’s a busted flush’ so you have to discipline yourself to say ‘we end this now while we still have an audience’.

“The same will have to happen with the farm.

We don’t know when that is.

“You’ve got to remember this is Jeremy’s show, it’s not like mine and his or his and Richard’s, it’s his baby and if at the end of a series, he can think of something he wants to do for another series, then he’ll do it.

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“But if he 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 that we do it all on a rolling basis.”
He added: “Every series we have is a bonus and we have to treat it like the Grand Tour, that every series we have is a bonus – and each time we’re thinking we’re in uncharted territory with the farming show.

“It’s the most joyous thing to edit.”
Filming wrapped for series five of the much-loved farming show in October.

Viewers can expect some major setbacks in the new series , with Clarkson revealing things got so bad on his 1,000 acre Diddly Squat Farm in the Cotswolds that he had to “send the cameras away”.

“I'm sure you're hoping that when you get to see [series five] next spring, it'll be a comedic eight-part festival of cute animals, laughter and incomprehensible dry-stone walling.

It isn't, though,” he wrote in his column for The Sun in October.

“Because the last 12 months have been a conveyor belt of misery.”
Clarkson said the challenges ranged from personal health setbacks to difficult weather conditions and the economic impact of Rachel Reeves’ budget on the farming industry.

He added: “It’s likely that the brilliant guys who edit our show will find some nuggets of humour in the mix and that there’ll be some laughs in season five.

“And in the relentless sunshine, the Cotswolds did look fantastic.

But at the coalface, it was knackering.”
The presenter confirmed that filming has now paused to give the team a break.

“Are we carrying on?

Well, we’ve sent the cameras away to give us a break from that side of things for a while,” he added.

“But yup.

Kaleb’s out there now in his tractor and after I’ve finished writing this, I’ll be joining him.”
In February, he confirmed that production is still halted for series six while he navigates his various career pursuits, which include a brewery, a shop and a pub, and hosting Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

and its new spin-off series .

Since launching Clarkson’s Farm on Prime Video in 2021, the series has become one of the platform’s biggest non-scripted hits, praised for its mix of comedy, chaos and authentic insight into the challenges of modern British farming.