Farmers race tractors in new BBC Three series
Date Posted: February 2, 2022
The Fast and the Farmer-ish is a brand new agri-challenge series where teams from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland battle it out for the glory of becoming the UK’s best tractor driving team. Produced by Alleycats with funding from Northern Ireland Screen, the series begins on Wednesday 9th February on BBC Three at 9pm and BBC One Northern Ireland at 10:35pm.
The series is the first commission from BBC Three’s partnership with BBC Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Screen. It is one of many new programmes that will launch the return of BBC Three as a TV channel from Tuesday 1st February.
The Fast and the Farmer-ish, filmed in Ballymoney, is hosted by Tom Pemberton, a full-time beef, dairy and sheep farmer who has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers across the world on his social media channels. He’ll bring his considerable knowledge and experience to the madness as teams of tractor-mad best friends crank it up in this wheel-spinning, engine-revving, diesel-sucking, side-splitting series.
The series will follow teams of three young farmers and their tractors as they go head-to-head in a series of regional heats hoping to win through and represent their nation in the semi-finals.
Drivers and their machines are pushed to the limit in spectacular challenges designed to test their skill, nerve, creativity and teamwork.
The first four programmes in the series will be the heats from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The second episode in the series will be the heat from the Northern Ireland teams when we meet ‘The Bogmen’; three best friends from the heart of Fermanagh who are up against ‘The Determinators’; David, Stephanie and Shannon.
From testing their raw speed in a drag race and their artistic skills in an extra-terrestrial mowing challenge before being literally shocked by the toughest reversing manoeuvre they will ever encounter, these young farmers have never worked harder!
The series will culminate in two nations going head to head in the final episode in the race to become the UK’s Fast and the Farmer-ish champions.
