Producer Andy Wilman: Ratings Success Has Been Unexpected, But Jeremy Will Walk Away When He’s Got Nothing Left To Say

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Andy Wilman looks like a man who’s not seen sunlight for a while. Peering down the barrel of a Zoom call, he’s got a touch of man flu after a spell in his editing bunker. Wilman is perpetually “in an edit.” He’s currently honing the final episode of The Grand Tour, but he could just as well be looking at rushes from Clarkson’s Farm Season 4. It is his happy place.

We talk just days after Season 3 has been confirmed as Amazon Prime Video’s highest-rated UK original, sitting acres ahead of lavishly-budgeted series including Fallout and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Not bad for a show in which the centerpiece storyline is the birthing journey of a pig named Baroness. Clarkson’s Farm was, in Wilman’s words, conceived as Clarkson’s “solo album” away from Richard Hammond and James May, but it would not be unreasonable to suggest that it has become bigger than the band.

Season 4 is currently shooting and Wilman, despite being a confessed “glass half empty” guy, seems comfortable with the progress. He is uncertain whether there will be a Season 5 — and not necessarily because they are at the mercy of Amazon’s green light. “I’ve got no feelings on whether there’s a five or not,” Wilman says. “Jeremy’s the same. He’s like: when we’ve got nothing left to say, let’s walk away.”