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LEADING THE FIELD
CLARKSON’S FARM AMAZON EXPECTATION AND CON DAO PRODUCTIONS
RUNNERS-UP
Producer Andy Wilman explains how the team created a hit show from a “snapshot of a warm, dysfunctional farm knocking along on hard work”
“Lightning in a bottle” is how Andy Wilman, Edit Producer of Clarkson’s Farm, describes the first series about Jeremy Clarkson’s Cotswold farm. But its success – including the audience response, especially among farmers – had little to do with chance. Clarkson had had the idea of making a TV
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show about his farm for a while since buying it in 2008. But only when the local villager who farmed it on a contract basis retired did the idea take off. “Jeremy is a good light bulb man, and as a journalist by trade he always thought there was a show to be had,” says Wilman. “As part of The Grand Tour S2 deal, Amazon offered each of them a solo project. This was Jeremy’s response.” The idea was to follow the farm over a
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year once the harvest was done when the first crops go into the ground for the next year. “He knew the broad brushstrokes of what he wanted to do. Knowledge-wise, he was
behind the curve and that was a strong editorial point,” he recalls. “I was invested because of that and
because we’d previously done things like Meets the Neighbours and The Victoria Cross series. There’s a different side of Jeremy to the one you see in The Grand Tour, though it’s not always to the fore.”
THE BIGGEST JOB WAS KEEPING ACROSS LOTS OF DIFFERENT STORY STRANDS
All involved agreed on some “clear pegs”
from the outset. The Grand Tour has a legacy of things
going wrong and being chaotic, but the team knew what might be right for that would not be right for this. A tractor falls over? No. Clarkson would farm, properly – well, as properly as he could. Even so, Wilman continues, it was
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