Booby-trapped fields! Water cannons! Non-ironic mullets! This daft gameshow might have created a new national sport
This isn’t what RuPaul had in mind at all. Before the drag race begins, two tractors, one containing a farmer called Bucky and his non-ironic mullet, the other helmed by the current Miss Northamptonshire, roar on the rustic grid. Now British agriculture is unsupported by EU subsidies, while fruit withers unpicked on the proverbial vine and dairy farming recovers from Veganuary, this show demonstrates how to repurpose a beleaguered sector.
In truth, tractors do not go fast, as anyone knows who has spent half an hour behind one on a Devon lane with their bladder clamouring for attention. And yet this is the premise for The Fast and the Farmer-ish (BBC Three), a competitive tractor-racing show whose daft title suggests the unsought spiritual union of Vin Diesel and the Wurzels. Only Hugh Bonneville’s bonehead W1A lackeys would see fit to commission such obvious nonsense.
