The Farm: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Pitched as a new factual entertainment series on Five. The Farm saw 9 celebrities living together on a farm with no running water, electricity, modern toilet facilities or mobile phones for a month. Living in isolation, they must grow their own food, collect firewood and tend farmyard animals. Five hoped that the series would educate a wide audience on how the food they eat arrives on their plates while also providing entertainment showing how metropolitan celebrities immerse themselves in the realities of rural life and how they cope with that. The series certainly delivered on the entertainment front with major magazines for the fist time acknowledging a Five show as well as for the first time in the channel's seven and a half year history one of it's shows made the front page of a national tabloid newspaper when Rebecca Loos was seen masturbating a pig! Before The Farm, Five did...

Series details

• Title: The Farm
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2004-09-26
• Final broadcast date listed: 2005-05-26
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: 5
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 12172
• TVDB ID: 80343

Cast and credited roles

• Ed Hall — Presenter
• Colin McAllister — Presenter
• Justin Ryan — Presenter

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2004-09-26; final listed air date 2004-10-17; episode order: 22.
• Season 2: premiered 2005-05-09; final listed air date 2005-05-26; episode order: 18.

Source and licence

Adapted from The Farm on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.