Nah. The Amazon money ensures it’s a profitable business. He’s made a show out of farming. Which is grand. But it’s in no way an attempt to run a profitable farm inside the show. I don’t doubt he cares about sustainability in his small town but the Tv show and the farm are Divorced from each other.I keep saying this but if you read his Sunday Times articles you can see he really is committed to that farm and going through a lot of the ups and downs that all farmers go through. This has been the case for at least a couple of years now.
Obviously, there will be a bunch of elements crowbarred in for entertainment but the central premise is about a legitimate effort to run a farm as a profitable business (albeit mainly unsuccessfully)
No. The premise is ‘Let’s watch a pretend buffoon play at farming’. Clarkson is monetising his existence and a faux character. He’s an honest as Boris at this point.Like I say, a lot of it can't be scripted. Yes you can do multiple takes, but you can't do retakes of shepherding. The animals only give birth or die once. The crops really are destroyed by pests and weather. It genuinely is a skill to drive a tractor and trailer alongside a combine harvester.
You can make it all into a watchable TV show but the basic premise of that show is real.
You’re literally supporting my point. Not arguing against it.I mostly liked when they scripted the rain and then the drought and the lamb births. Great writing.
Also @UnrelatedPsuedo you're aware that pretty much every show (even though those that present themselves as "reality TV") is scripted?
In a truly box office ‘My dads harder than your dad’, my friend worked on production of this too.Yeah that's my mate you're talking about there who supposedly scripted it so don't be a cnut eh? I can tell you she's got ADHD and definitely wouldn't have had the patience for millions of movie-style takes (nor would Clarkson I'm sure), but yes obviously she had to find ways to get interesting things to happen on camera. In fact most of her time was spent in the pub trying to get Gerald to turn up for spurious reasons to pass comment on things or "help out". But that's not a script.
I echo the sentiments of the vast majority of people in this thread - don't like Clarkson but the show is great and for once he's largely not being a prick.
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Just the same surname I thinkThe whole show was worth it just for the conversation with Gerald via walkie talkie during the harvesting.
Is Gerald also Kaleb's father? Or related in some way?
Wrestling is fake too.Bet some of you are proper fun to watch movies with.
It's real to me goddamnit!Wrestling is fake too.
I wasn't arguing against your point, I was saying it was shit.You’re literally supporting my point. Not arguing against it.
You can pithily ask if I realise that reality tv is scripted. But you know full well I’m not suggesting the weather is included in that scripting.
Well it sounded aggressive so I got precious about it…..I wasn't arguing against your point, I was saying it was shit.
Fcuking hellWrestling is fake too.
Really shows up what a load of knee-jerk nonsense the hatchet piece from the Grauniad was much earlier in the thread. Bet she had most of written before she started watching.They changed their tune
Oh yeah definitely. I’d be amazed if she watched the whole thing at all.Really shows up what a load of knee-jerk nonsense the hatchet piece from the Grauniad was much earlier in the thread. Bet she had most of written before she started watching.
It's the strangest premise for a show. Jeremy Clarkson working on a farm, growing crops, building a nature habitat and talking about conservation. And a sheep called Wayne Rooney.I just started on this and like this better than James May in Japan series.
Never thought I'd enjoy a farming show, but kudos to Clarkson.
Fellow farmers, other food producers and local residents, even some who really don’t like Clarkson’s take-no-prisoners style, argued that the case illustrated a disconnect between planners and the needs of modern farmers to find new, imaginative ways of making a living.
“It’s a real shame,” said Pete Ledbury, who farms with his wife, Emma, at the North Cotswolds Dairy just a few miles from Clarkson’s Diddly Squat farm. “We know that we have to diversify to make a living and create more jobs for the countryside. Turning down projects like this doesn’t help. I think it’s pretty shortsighted of the planners.” Emma Ledbury spelled out the pressure that farms such as theirs were under. In recent years they have lost 40 of their 100-strong herd of pedigree holstein cattle to bovine tuberculosis, drastically cutting their chances of turning a profit. It costs 32p to produce a litre of milk, for which supermarket buyers have been paying them about 28p.
Selling milk directly to the customer via a vending machine at the Diddly Squat farm shop for a fairer price has helped keep them going and they were hoping to provide milk, cream and butter to the restaurant. Those hopes appear to have been dashed. “British farming is in a mess,” she said.
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apparently caleb calls himself “the caleberation” now and doesn’t allow filing to stop unless he’s made one of the runners cry.Whether you like him or not he makes a good TV show.
A big part of the success of the first was the innocence of the other cast members. I hope they haven't lost that.
Google Translate has no idea what you're on about here either.apparently caleb calls himself “the caleberation” now and doesn’t allow filing to stop unless he’s made one of the runners cry.
There’s also that whole thing about not liking toilet paper so halfway through season 1 he began wiping his ass using crew membersapparently caleb calls himself “the caleberation” now and doesn’t allow filing to stop unless he’s made one of the runners cry.
As the trailer showed some new projects (cows, restaurant) I guess it will be mostly the same reasonably unstaged setup - Clarkson saying "how hard can it be" and then learning it the hard way.Ill watch ot as i found it entertaining but I don't really see where they go in season 2. I have a feeling it will be more set up or staged.
As the trailer showed some new projects (cows, restaurant) I guess it will be mostly the same reasonably unstaged setup - Clarkson saying "how hard can it be" and then learning it the hard way.
Which I quite like, it's entertaining and feels quite real, seeing how stuff really works and not the usual TV romanticism about country life.
That's why I like that they showed the calculations in the end. Yes, Clarkson doesn't need that money and he himself acknowledges that. But him looking genuinely shocked about how little money his work made did add much value to the show. That five minutes of accounting are simply not existing in any other farming show I am aware ofI can't take any of that stuff serious though as Clarkson is a multi millionaire. While it shows farming and different aspects of it which is interesting and entertaining its not true to real life farmers.
I would've loved JC to put his money and only his money in but obviously amazon are bank rolling it. So he won't ever lose out.
This season contains a meeting with neighbouring farmers. Doesn't get more real to show how hard the economic situation is. So while Clarkson doesn't have to deal with that personally, the show does include this as well.I can't take any of that stuff serious though as Clarkson is a multi millionaire. While it shows farming and different aspects of it which is interesting and entertaining its not true to real life farmers.