The Farm (2004-2005)
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...
