Diddly Squat faces disaster as Clarkon's Farm season five trailer drops
The first trailer for Clarkson’s Farm season five has dropped ahead of the series’ release in just a couple of weeks, showing Clarkson in hospital after his emergency heart surgery.
Clarkson has indicated that the upcoming fifth season may be the last of the show, with Diddly Squat facing a major disaster that threatened to destroy the farm.
Last year, when season five was being filmed, Jeremy Clarkson announced they were ‘devastated’ that a bovine tuberculosis (bTB) outbreak had occurred at the farm.
Posting to X, the presenter said: “Bad news from Diddly Squat. We’ve gone down with TB. Everyone here is absolutely devastated.”
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In the trailer Clarkson and Kaleb are shown being given the news that the Diddly Squat farm is going to be put under restrictions as a result of the outbreak.
Check out the trailer below:
Whilst we don't know everything about what happens following the bTB outbreak, we do know that there were some pretty devastating results. Clarkson posted an adorable picture of a calf from the farm on his Instagram, delivering tragic news alongside it.
He said: "This was the first calf ever born at Diddly Squat. And this morning she was destroyed, while pregnant with twins, because she has TB. So sad."
Endgame, the beloved bull introduced in the last season of the Prime Video show, was announced to have initially had an 'inconclusive' test, with Clarkson saying 'I couldn’t bear it if we lost him'. Thankfully in the end the beloved bull pulls through, and the farm was declared fully bTB free in March of 2026.
This is not the only major moment that the show's new season will cover however, as the trailer promises to give further insight into some incidents in the last year which saw Clarkson making the headlines even before footage was released.
Clarkson's Health Scare
Jeremy Clarkson underwent emergency heart surgery last year which saw him needing two stents fitted into his heart. Clarkson is shown in hospital in the first trailer, with the presenter having since revealed that he was 'hours away' from a potentially fatal heart attack, stating that he was 'days from death'.
Government farming protests
In the trailer Clarkson states that everyone has been telling him 'not to speak out', including Prime Video he claims, about farming and the inheritance tax.
Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, changed inheritance tax laws to ensure that agricultural assets worth more than £1,000,000 would be liable to a 20% tax. Including farms, these assets were previously exempt but are still being taxed at half the usual inheritance tax rate. Clarkson was outspoken in protests about this, saying it was 'the end' for farmers, and this will clearly be touched on the fifth season of the show.
Travellers showed up to his Farmer's Dog pub and broke onto the grounds
Clarkson is shown in season five calling Charlie Ireland, informing him a group of 150 travellers had showed up at the Farmer's Dog. Speaking about this in his column for The Sunday Times, he said: "In the olden days you’d call the police and they would at least try to sort it out, but times have changed.
"The question of who owns something is a kind of vexing grey area, and if you want to break into a pub car park and then spend the morning racing your horses and traps up and down the A40, then you go right ahead."
He stated however that he thought the Traveller's community should be treated with respect, saying: "Basically, treat them like the Canadians treat their neighbours south of the border. Smile sweetly and hope they don’t come over."
Clarkson's Farm season five will be available to stream on Prime Video 3 June.
Topics: Clarkson's Farm, Jeremy Clarkson, TV and Film, TV
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