Clarksons Farm - Amazon

[Prince fan 1999]

Wasn't expecting to wake up to this news re Jeremy this morning

 

[dressinggownofdoom]

Just catching the last couple of episodes of the series.

That pair of chancers who were supposed to be setting up the pub for Jeremy, what a useless pair of twats. Neither of them did anything other than spend huge sums of money. Neither of them thought to sort out pricing, left to Charlie at the last minute. They needed slapping and chucking out, never mind them threatening to kick Jeremy in the nuts. And frankly them walking out on opening weekend was the height of unprofessionalism.

I thought the chef was a bit of a dickhead as well. Seemed to think his needs were the only ones that mattered.

Jeremy bit off too much trying to open so quickly, but those women didn't help anything.

Charlie is just a fucking hero!

Yeah couldn’t agree more! They were all smiles when they thought they had a rich client who would spend endless amounts of cash, but when they were expected to do some work they just became two horrible cunts. The one who told him to go into the kitchen when he had literally just been and gave him a mouthful about the building not being fit for purpose, it was their job to get it fit for purpose! And the chef was awful, smug and patronising and talking to Clarkson like he was a piece of shit on his shoe. Poor Jeremy was stumbling around grey faced at one point on opening day like he was about to collapse.

Charlie was brilliant when the electricity went off in the kitchen, clearly that’s not his job but unlike Nick who just complained with a face like thunder he actually tried to help and fix it, and they managed it in the end.

Although when they had the shot of Clarkson sitting by himself in the office for a breather in the middle of the chaos of opening day i did expect to hear Charlie popping up, ‘hi Jeremy!’

I was worried for Jeremy when he was up on the thing drilling bits of sticks onto the ceiling 🫣

 

[StephenTJackson]

I can't imagine what he has to know!! The programme really does emphasise how much paper work and legislation there is for just about everything related to farming.

Paperwork is the bane of farmers lives. Endless amounts. Hours and hours of time. And not all farmers will be able to afford their own Charlies to do the work for them.

 

[Prince fan 1999]

I like watching the programme but I don't understand the love for Clarkson. He's made a massive business off the back of this and I don't know how much actually transfers to farmers other than spreading awareness farming is hard.
For example I live in a farming area, where there's tourists and it's in a different part of the country to Clarkson's farm.
I've heard people go in the local shop and ask if they sell Hawkstone. They don't, they sell loads and loads of different local products including beers and ciders made by small companies, arguably much less geot lot neric than Hawkstone too. But because they don't sell Hawkstone they don't buy anything. Shop keep says it happens more than you'd like to think.
Admittedly I've not started this series yet but it would be great if the message was go and see what your local farmer, food producer or shop is doing rather than one long Clarkson advert.

He's helping a hell of a lot of local farmers to him too, stocking their meat and milk etc. it can only be a good thing surely?

 

[dressinggownofdoom]

I like Harriet too! She had the place looking tidy in no time. Cringed myself inside out at Kalebs stroppy attitude when he came back

 

[bubbadabut]

"Hello Piggies!" That's my new favourite Clarkson's farm expression, knocking "I did a thing!" into second place.

This show is so great. So what if a lot of it is staged? It's one of the best shows on TV - informative, funny, sad, beautiful scenery, gorgeous animals and a small but select group of very watchable characters. Not to mention the villains, the parish council (booooo).

I love that Lisa has been given more of a role this year. She is such a good foil to Jeremy, and it's great how she gets stuck into the farm work.

Piglets were adorable. It's so sad when you breed amimals and despite your best efforts, some of them just don't make it. We breed ducks, pheasants, quails and peacocks, and it makes you question everything you did when you lose the babies. You could see that they both loved the pigletd dearly. It's nice to see a softer side of Jeremy.

Thought the vet was a bit heartless with her words to poor Baroness though. "Time's up"

 

[CaptainHolt]

Harriet was/is quite prominent in the tiktok farming community, which is where she must have been spotted.

I did wonder how they'd found her, but I don't think it was an audition as she'd never heard of the show prior to being on it (I read an interview and she seemed genuine).

I imagine she was chosen to showcase that farming isn't just for boys, it is an entertainment program at the end of the day so they're going to add a little bit of TV sparkle here and there which balances out the serious side of running a farm.

I think it's a case of them knowing that we know, so they don't over egg the pudding and we go along with it.

Similar to Top Gear - we know they didn't really shove Richard Hammond down a snowy mountain in a shed, but it was still very funny to watch. You can always tell when Clarkson is on script as he gets his Top Gear voice on ( making the decision about Richard Ham for example was clearly a "bit" to give one of the stories a cosy ending).

 

[dressinggownofdoom]

I like watching the programme but I don't understand the love for Clarkson. He's made a massive business off the back of this and I don't know how much actually transfers to farmers other than spreading awareness farming is hard.
For example I live in a farming area, where there's tourists and it's in a different part of the country to Clarkson's farm.
I've heard people go in the local shop and ask if they sell Hawkstone. They don't, they sell loads and loads of different local products including beers and ciders made by small companies, arguably much less generic than Hawkstone too. But because they don't sell Hawkstone they don't buy anything. Shop keep says it happens more than you'd like to think.
Admittedly I've not started this series yet but it would be great if the message was go and see what your local farmer, food producer or shop is doing rather than one long Clarkson advert.

I think the love for Clarkson is because he’s been clear from the start he bought the farm for tax reasons and only started farming himself for a bit of craic/to make a TV show. Which is why it’s great to see his perspectives evolving over the seasons of Clarksons Farm, to see him become someone who genuinely really cares about farming and agriculture. He, Charlie and Kaleb have been actively lobbying for policy change to help farmers and the shift in his views on the environment are incredible.

I don’t think it’s really his responsibility to promote every business going or to restrict sale of his own products to benefit other producers. That would cross the line from supporting co operative farming into nannying farmers and that’s just not his thing at all.

 

[Shesaidwhat?]

I chose the complete wrong time to watch whilst eating my tea. You can probably guess which scene.

 

[BearOnChair]

Just started the last episode....you've got to question anyone who turns up and queues for so long to go into a massively packed pub, especially with babies in tow.

 

[cat1312]

The two women reminded me of area managers who always used to swan in when I worked in hospitality. Always had grand ideas of how things should be done but didn’t have a bloody clue because they didn’t do the actual job so had no idea how things worked.
How could they have not realised that there was no prices, and how did they not realise there was no staff room or area for staff breaks?
Supposed ‘experts’ but they seemed to miss a lot of the things you’d expect them to know if they were so good at setting up pubs. More interested on spending money to make it look nice.

 

[dressinggownofdoom]

I’ve been rewatching old series whilst waiting for the new one! Is it weird that I find Charlie quite sexy he’s very clever and i like it when he’s stern with Jeremy

 

[cowtastrophe]

It’s back! We watched the first episode of the latest series tonight. It’s as enjoyable as ever with some adorable sheeps.

 

[stardust1]

Episode 4 is so sad. The vet seemed a bit laxy but I suppose what was filmed could have been chopped and changed slightly. Kaleb seemed a bit off this time around I get Jeremy must be a nightmare but his comment about he’d rather put the Christmas lights up with his friends seemed a bit uncalled for.

When the vet said ‘times up’ to the pig

 

[Milliemoo99]

Wow I really disliked Kaleb this season so far. The tour looks absolutely dire then combine that with his terrible attitude when he came back. Not sure if that was real or if he was doing some terrible acting under the instructions of producers but either way, all it did was make him look bad. Would have been so much better if he had come back and had a laugh and a joke about "the new kaleb" instead of a strop. What did he want Clarkson to do? Struggle on his own for however long he was away for

I liked Clarksons reaction to Kaleb and his rock star attitude though, he was telling Kaleb, how hard it can be at times after everyone is making a big fuss of you on stage etc, to then come back down to reality, and likened it to cunt flu.....
It was almost an apology from Jeremy about certain past events where he has behaved a bit too much like an entitled rock star!!!

 

[terfette]

Has anyone else been on any of the facebook groups about the farm? How thick are some people? I keep seeing people going on about the farm profits, as if Jeremy is pretending *he* only made £140 odd quid profit.

It really irritates me that they think they're seeing something the rest of us aren't by pointing out that he will be being paid a lot from Amazon, and has other high earning sources of income to fall back on.

How can people miss the point so spectacularly? Even if you never watched any of it, and just watched the bit where they talk about the farm profits at the end of the season, its very obvious that he is quoting those figures to highlight the financial position of every other farmer who isn't a famous presenter with lucrative TV deals MORONS.

 

[Sakkiedekock]

Booked a table for our anniversary next month finally. Excited

Remember no dogging in the picnic area

 

[StephenTJackson]

All those hundreds of millions of dollars Amazon spent on that Lord of the Rings series, and it was beaten in the UK ratings by a fat old man getting shouted at by everyone for his incompetence and trying to open a restaurant. Love to see it.

Jeremy Clarkson breaks Amazon viewing record with Clarkson's Farm

The series beat out Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power for viewers watching on TV sets in the UK.

www.radiotimes.com

 

[Flowerpotgirl]

Also. People are allowed to do things just to make themselves happy too. And some people love going a ride in the car and Jeremy’s place is a good destination and motivation. I doubt a lot of people will repeatedly drive long distances to see and eat there. But good for them for getting out and making an effort.
I am sure the other 90% of the time they are doing more local things.

 

[Cazerjack]

Only getting to watch the last episode now, fair play to Lisa for stepping up to the mark, she played a blinder with all the farm work while Jeremy was out of action.