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Clarkson’s Farm is on the cusp of returning for a brand new season – but its producer has opened up about the show’s legacy, addressing the reason why it will one day end.
Jeremy Clarkson will return for season five as early as next month, and recently said he’d only make the now-confirmed sixth season if “there was a good story” to focus on.
Looking ahead, producer Andy Wilman, Clarkson’s long-time collaborator, has confirmed that the Prime Video series has a finite life and will only continue as long as Clarkson wants it to.
The show’s deal with the streaming platform is done on a “rolling basis”, meaning the team is only contractually obliged to complete the season they’re currently filming, which will ensure the show goes out on a high.
“You can’t have that thing where you have done one series too many and people say, ‘That’s bollocks now, it’s a busted flush,’ Wilman told Extraordinary Life Stories podcast. So you have to discipline yourself to say, ‘We end this now while we still have an audience.’”
Wilman said that “every series we have is a bonus”, adding: “If Jeremy 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.”
The fate of ‘Clarkson’s Farm’ is in Jeremy Clarkson’s hands (Prime Video)
He continued: “This is our third big show – Top Gear kind of got ended for us, I can’t say that was a plan.
“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.”
Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond’s on-screen relationship came to an end with the final episode of The Grand Tour in September 2024. They joined the series after leaving Top Gear in 2015.
However, The Grand Tour will return with new hosts, YouTubers Thomas Holland and James Engelsman, best known for their motoring content, as well as social media star and train enthusiast Francis Bourgeois.
Wilman said of all the shows he’s worked on with Clarkson, it’s Clarkson’s Farm that’s “the most joyous thing to edit”.
However, the new season will feature its most heartbreaking scenes yet, with episodes expected to focus on the outbreak of bovine tuberculosis, which struck the Cotswolds farm in October 2025.
Jeremy Clarkson hosted The Grand Tour’ with James May and Richard Hammond (Getty)
Bovine TB (bTB) is a chronic respiratory disease caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium bovis. The disease can be catastrophic for farmers and forces the culling of infected cattle. Due to a bTB incident in England between October 2021 and September 2022, 22,934 cows were killed.
This outbreak of bTB was a huge setback in 2025 and saw Clarkson’s Diddly Squat farm face a year of climate-driven disasters. The presenter called it the “worst year ever”, citing a “shocking” harvest due to heatwaves and drought in the UK.
Clarkson bought the now-famous land in 2008 and, after the villager who ran the farm retired in 2019, he decided to see if he could run it himself – a venture tracked in Clarkson’s Farm.
It has become one of Prime Video’s most-streamed TV shows and in July 2024, Clarkson extended his business empire by taking over rural country pub The Windmill in Asthall – a “village boozer” on five acres of countryside near Burford.