The Northern Ireland heat of a brand new agri-challenge airing on BBC Three will see Fermanagh team the 'Bogmen' go head to head with the 'Determinators' as they battle to be in with a chance of being crowned the UK's best tractor driving team.
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 where the Bogmen, a team made up of three Fermanagh best friends, Daniel Thornton, Wayne Manley and William Parkinson, will be up against the Determinators, featuring Stephanie Reid, Shannon Cartin and David Boyd. During the challenge, the two teams will be tested on their raw speed in a drag race, their artistic skills in an extra-terrestrial mowing challenge before being literally shocked by the toughest reversing manoeuvre they will ever encounter.
When the dust settles, one team will take to the podium to celebrate, as the losers take to their tractor cabs and the drive of shame home. 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.
Produced by Alleycats with funding from Northern Ireland Screen, the series begins on Wednesday, February 9 on BBC Three at 9pm and BBC One Northern Ireland at 10.35pm.
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