Jeremy Clarkson shares show update after filming halted at Diddly Squat – and teases ‘teary’ season five storyline

JEREMY Clarkson has an update on the staggered progress of filming the new series of Clarkson’s Farm.

The petrolhead-turned-farmer has had production on series six of the Prime Video show stop and start due to the bad weather.

But today Jeremy told the My Week in Cars podcast that they got some good news – that the full production was resuming.

Talking from Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire, he said: “There’s either a little crew [here all the time] or a great big crew and I think it’s the great big crew back here tomorrow.”

Discussing the random nature of making the show, and farming in general, he also said they were at the mercy of the elements and fate.

He also revealed there’s likely to be another tragic storyline in the new series which will prove a tearjerker for animal lovers.

Jeremy said: “There is no script to this TV show, people always go it’s staged but the pigs dying, Gerard’s cancer – you can’t stage any of it.

“We’ve got a donkey that’s desperately ill at the moment, we’ve all got our fingers crossed that it makes it but I don’t know, I can’t write a script saying ‘then it got better’ because you don’t know what the donkey’s going to do.

“So you have to be ready to go – but you do spend an awful lot of time sitting around doom scrolling on your phone waiting for the weather to get better or for animals to do something.”

Jeremy previously revealed hoe he was forced to halt filming on the farm because of the weather.

He wrote to fans in his Sunday Times column: “There’s no filming happening on the farm at the moment, or farming.

“It hasn’t stopped raining since the beginning of the year, so I can’t plant anything, and I can’t do anything with my cows either because we are still locked down by TB.”

Diddly Squat Farm was hit by a bovine tuberculosis outbreak last October.

Jeremy assured fans at the time that the bacterial disease didn’t affect humans just his “poor cows.”

Bovine Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease of cattle and badgers.

It is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) which can also infect and cause disease in many other mammals including humans, deer, goats, pigs, cats, dogs and badgers.

In cattle, it is mainly a respiratory disease.

Jeremy also revealed they have introduced a new donkey to the show called New Ben.

It’s believed to have replace a previous donkey called Ben who was regularly posted on social media alongside his companion Bill, having come to Diddly Squat Farm to spend their retirement in June 2025.