Clarkson's Farm season 4 is an Amazon Prime original reality series featuring Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson. The series has been renewed for a fifth season even before season 4 has aired, as confirmed by Clarkson.
According to a November 5 report from The Sun, Jeremy Clarkson said that Clarkson's Farm season 4 is in filming. In an interview with Times Radio, Clarkson said that he hopes season 4 will release in May 2025.
Clarkson's Farm season 4 is a part of the second major reality show production Clarkson has started with Amazon Prime. The first series was The Grand Tour, a spiritual successor to the 2002 iteration of Top Gear, which he left in 2015.
Clarkson's Farm season 4 is in production
While the first three seasons of the show are available on Prime Video, Clarkson's Farm season 4 is yet to wrap up production, which makes the fifth season announcement particularly notable.
Clarkson's Farm features Jeremy Clarkson's 1,000-acre farm at Chipping Norton, West Oxfordshire. The series first premiered on 11 June, 2021, with the second season premiering on 10 February 2023. The third season premiered in two parts, with the first premiering on 3 May 2024 and the second on 10 May, 2024.
Jeremy Clarkson bought the farm featured on the Prime Video original series in 2008, and until 2019, he employed contract laborers to tend to the land. In a May 2021 BBC interview, Jeremy said that the idea of Clarkson's Farm came to him when he had decided to take up the job of farming himself. In his own words:
"I've had the farm since 2008, but I haven't really been involved with it at all. A man in the village ran it, and then he retired, and I don't know what it was, but I just thought 'I can do that'."
Because the work of farming is incredibly labor-intensive and the pay is unreliable, he chose to produce a reality show to make the enterprise viable. As he put it:
"I genuinely thought you put seeds in the ground, weather happens and then food grows. So I thought 'that's not difficult', but it's phenomenally difficult and the heartache is extraordinary, plus it's phenomenally badly paid. So I thought, if I get someone to film me doing it, that will offset some of the losses."
Jeremy has also spoken candidly about the difficulties and heartaches he has endured after taking full responsibility for the farm work.
Jeremy spoke about a difficult decision he had to make in putting a sheep down, as his farm produces and sells meat. He said that he didn't believe any farmer could enjoy killing animals, but there was a demand for animal and meat products, which he understood as even he enjoyed "Having a good roast" every now and then.
He described the experience:
"So it has to happen, and that was my first experience of it. I nearly abdicated the responsibility of taking sheep to the abattoir to someone else, and then I thought 'no, come on you've got to do it."
Clarkson's Farm season 4 promises to provide a frank, down-to-earth look at Jeremy Clarkson's work as a farmer and the attendant transformation he has had in his worldview as a consequence. Given the series's renewal for a fourth and fifth seasons, it's safe to say that this perspective has resonated with fans.
The first three seasons of Clarkson's Farm are available for streaming on Prime Video.