Clarkson’s Farm return date announced for new season about ‘worst year ever’

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21 Apr 2026 • 5:58 PM MYT
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Clarkson’s Farm return date announced for new season about ‘worst year ever’

The release date for Clarkson’s Farm season five has been revealed – and there’s a little longer to wait than fans were expecting.

For months now, it’s been hinted that the hit Prime Video series, following Jeremy Clarkson as he runs a 1,000-acre Oxfordshire holding, would be back on screens this spring.

However, the fifth season will premiere on 3 June, when the first four episodes will be released.

Jeremy Clarkson will be back on screens this summer (Prime Video)

Two episodes will follow the week after, on 10 June, with the final two instalments debuting on 17 June. Whether this will be the last episode ever remains to be seen – Clarkson recently said he’d only make the now-confirmed sixth season if “there was a good story” to focus on.

The forthcoming season will be the show’s most heartbreaking yet, with episodes expected to focus on the outbreak of bovine tuberculosis, which struck the Cotswolds farm in October 2025.

Bovine TB (bTB) is a chronic respiratory disease caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium bovis. The disease can be catastrophic for farmers and forces the culling of infected cattle. Due to a bTB incident in England between October 2021 and September 2022, 22,934 cows were killed.

This outbreak of bTB was a huge setback in 2025 and saw Clarkson’s Diddly Squat farm face a year of climate-driven disasters. The presenter called it the “worst year ever”, citing a “shocking” harvest due to heatwaves and drought in the UK.

Clarkson bought the now-famous land in 2008 and, after the villager who ran the farm retired in 2019, he decided to see if he could run it himself – a venture tracked in Clarkson’s Farm.

It has become one of Prime Video’s most-streamed TV shows and, in July 2024, Clarkson extended his business empire by taking over rural country pub The Windmill in Asthall – a “village boozer” on five acres of countryside near Burford. He renamed it The Farmer’s Dog, and the new season will also feature a Christmas-themed episode set in the pub.

Addressing the show’s future, producer Andy Wilman confirmed that the Amazon Prime Video series has a finite life and will only continue as long as Clarkson wants it to.

The show’s deal with the streaming platform is done on a “rolling basis”, meaning the team is only contractually obliged to complete the season they’re currently filming, which will ensure the show goes out on a high.

Clarkson’s Farm returns to Prime Video on 5 June.

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