Our Yorkshire Farm star Reuben Owen has addressed his ‘disasters’ on his Channel 5 show and the moments that never made it to TV screens. Speaking on The Farmers Guardian podcast, Reuben discussed his own Channel 5 show Life In The Dales, which follows his personal story. He said: “We did a bit of TV at home when I was younger and then a year or so ago we were approached by the TV lot to follow what I was doing since we hadn’t been covered for a while.
They followed us digging, right from the start when we were working all over the place. It’s just been a programme about life around here, a bit of plant machinery and everything that went wrong seemed to end up in the TV programme.” He added: “They love a bit of jeopardy.
The jobs that go right don’t make it in but when you have a disaster, they love to get that on.” Asked why the programmes following his family have been so popular, Reuben said it’s “something a bit different” to most people’s everyday lives. Our Yorkshire Farm, featuring the Owen family, was an immediate success with TV viewers, looking into the Owen family's life with nine children on one of the most remote farms in the country.
Since Our Yorkshire Farm concluded, most of the Owen children have kept a low profile, with the exception of Reuben who launched his own Channel 5 series. However, the Owen family are set to reunite for a new show, which will hit screens very soon. The programme's synopsis reveals: "After buying a run-down .
