THE new series of Clarkson’s Farm is likely to be available within weeks – but there’s an even bigger surprise for fans of the show.

Devotees have been eagerly waiting to find out when season five will drop on streaming service, Prime Video.

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Clarkson’s Farm could be back on Prime Video very soonCredit: Amazon MGM Studios
 

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The hit series is being lined up for a Christmas specialCredit: PA
But now they will also be thrilled to hear they are also getting a surprising “Christmas Special” when it does arrive.

Show producer Andy Wilman was discussing the release of the new series, which he believes could be as early as next month.

Revealing the new episodes would be on a “slow release drop” he also revealed there would be a special festive element likely to delight fans of the show.

Talking on the Extraordinary Life Stories podcast, Andy said: “There’s a scene in the pub which happens at Christmas time and there’s 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.

“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.

“Then Kaleb and Jeremy build the grotto together and Kaleb’s view on the creation of mankind is blindingly brilliant.”

Andy also explained how the deal with prime video was done on a “rolling basis” and the fate of the show was essentially decided series by series, depending on whether Jeremy had another idea to anchor another season on.

As the producer on Top Gear and The Grand Tour he also said he wanted to ensure Clarkson’s Farm went out on a high.

Andy said: “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.

“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’ 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.

“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.

“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.”


The hit series debuted on Prime Video back in 2021Credit: Amazon