Major Clarkson’s Farm update as Amazon Prime bosses make final decision on show’s future
HE promised that he’d start filming series six of Clarkson’s Farm if it snowed last month – and the weather duly responded with some of the white stuff over Oxfordshire.
But Jeremy Clarkson had another hurdle to get over and that was getting Amazon Prime Video to sign off on the season, which they’ve now done. Finally.
It was already a done deal, pretty much, and just a case of formalising things.
In December he said: “We’ll definitely do six series, Amazon want to and I want to.
“I’ve got a good idea for six.
“I said I’ll stop doing them when there are no more ideas. But I’ve got two quite good ones, so we’ll do six and then we’ll see…”
Talking about having a break between making series five and series six, he said: “We’ve never had a rest. We wrap a series and immediately start again, because farming doesn’t stop.
“So we just said, ‘OK, well, let’s just actually wrap it …’ then I said, ‘If it snows, we’ll start filming again’.”
Which is why when the weather changed Jezza got straight out onto the fields of Diddly Squat Farm and start the cameras rolling.
Last week things really picked up the pace, however, and the team are now on target to be able to deliver us the new season next year.
But first we’ve yet to take delivery of series five which Jeremy finished last year and has been waiting to unveil on the streaming service.
Usually we can expect it to drop around April and May, as the series in 2024 and 2025 did.
Though it still feels like much too long to wait.
RIVALS RETURN IS TWO SAUCY
EMILY ATACK looks like she’s olive-ing her best life playing saucy Sarah Stratton in the next series of Rivals.
The second season of the Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster will drop on May 15, with a third airing later in the year.
And things kick off – in every sense – with a three-episode premiere featuring all characters from season one: David Tennant as Tony Baddingham, Alex Hassell as lothario Rupert Campbell-Black, Aidan Turner as Declan O’Hara, Danny Dyer as Freddy Jones and Bella Maclean as Taggie O’Hara.
I’M ABBEY TO LEAVE DOWNTON
HAVING left behind his biggest roles in Downton Abbey and Paddington, Hugh Bonneville is focusing on a new chapter which sees him join Guy Ritchie‘s Netflix series The Gentleman.
Ruling out a return to Highclere Castle, he insists there are no plans to bring back the ITV period drama.
“Not with our cast,” he said. “But the castle still stands, so who knows? Maybe there’ll be one set in 2060?”
He says a reappearance in Paddington is more likely, but only with big changes.
He told Jonathan Ross on his ITV1 show: “I think I should put this in context, I’m just too blooming old. I can’t do the splits any more like I did in the second film.
“Never say never. If Mr Brown comes back in a bath chair, I could be available.”
You can watch it tomorrow night at 9.30pm.
Cecil was killed with a bow and arrow by US dentist Walter Palmer in Zimbabwe ten years ago, sparking global outrage.
The feature-length film will air on February 19 at 10pm.