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Countryfile

  • TV Series
  • 1988–
  • 30m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
178
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Countryfile (1988)
Documentary

Series looking at people and stories with a rural theme.Series looking at people and stories with a rural theme.Series looking at people and stories with a rural theme.

  • Stars
    • John Craven
    • Adam Henson
    • Matt Baker
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    178
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    • Stars
      • John Craven
      • Adam Henson
      • Matt Baker
    • 8User reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins total

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    John Craven
    • Self - Presenter…
    • 1989–2025
    Adam Henson
    • Self - Presenter…
    • 2005–2025
    Matt Baker
    • Self - Presenter…
    • 2010–2025
    Ian Breach
    • Self - Presenter…
    • 1988–1994
    Anne Brown
    • Self - Presenter…
    • 1988–2018
    Ian McCaskill
    • Self - Weather Presenter
    • 1988–1991
    Bill Giles
    • Self - Weather Presenter…
    • 1988–2008
    Bernard Davey
    • Self - Weather Presenter
    • 1988–1991
    Chris Baines
    • Self - Presenter…
    • 1988–1994
    Michael Fish
    Michael Fish
    • Self - Weather Presenter
    • 1988–1991
    Ellie Harrison
    • Self - Presenter…
    • 2011–2023
    John Kettley
    • Self - Weather Presenter
    • 1988–1990
    Charlotte Smith
    • Self - Reporter…
    • 1998–2022
    Tom Heap
    • Self - Presenter…
    • 2004–2025
    Anita Rani
    • Self - Presenter
    • 2015–2025
    Roger Tabor
    • Self - Presenter…
    • 1988–1994
    Caroline Hall
    • Self - Presenter…
    • 1988–1994
    Sean Fletcher
    Sean Fletcher
    • Self - Presenter…
    • 2016–2025
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    1ronbell-23984

    Boring

    No idea how this show is still going, it's boring, just dull.

    If you want to fall into a coma, watch this terribly boring show.
    1stuff-242-168276

    child-like view on country pass-times and lifestyles.

    This program is laughed at within the UK for it's innocent view on agriculture and country lifestyle with deliberate omission of contentious and informative facts.

    There are little or no details on EU subsidies, finances of farmers, practises of husbandry, and land ownership.

    Issues such as factory farming, social isolation and suicide, the relation between supermarkets, the economy and initial farming provision, rural racism, disease control and fox hunting are given a wide birth.

    What might be an informative conduit between TV viewing city folk tax payers and the countryside is wasted on distractive and cute optimistic individual scenarios.

    Classic Sunday morning viewing for city people with a hangover who engage with the nostalgic frisson towards the main presenter.

    Famous in the UK for his sanitised and wooden style of presenting a young persons news program in the 80's called "John Cravens News Round".

    Now he is continuing to sanitise and uninfrom, then grow old, like some bland antipathies to Sir David Attenborough.

    John Craven, an entirely professional presenter who kept his head down professionally and was rewarded with this pensionable program continues to uniform.
    1Papppy

    Yet More Woke BBC Nonsense

    Yet more woke propaganda from the BBC. Save your money and cancel your BBC license!
    10timothy-price-794-581328

    A necessity - reminds you what is important

    I really can't believe Countryfile gets an overall poor review - can only imagine those that love it (and there are many) aren't the 'type' to leave reviews, while those that do really aren't interested in our Countryside?

    It concentrates on the so-important issues in our Countryside, and farming communities - the health and welfare of animals, habitat and the people who live in and support what makes our Country special. While showing the beauty of our U. K., with engaging presenters. What's not to love.

    Truly essential viewing for what is truly important in our Country....
    1gav-52188

    Too political

    This was an excellent program which I watched religiously for many years but has become so political. The focus has moved from issues affected the countryside to political issues with the usual BBC biased spin on things. Very disappointing a real shame as there are some great presenters.

    Please return to the original agenda of farming and nature issues, not immigration etc. If I wanted to see those sort of issues I'd watch Question time or something similar. I do feel the BBC in general focus too much in their own preferred subject matter. Such a shame. Time to dispense with the licence fee in my option although many will disagree no doubt.

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    • Release date
      • July 1, 1988 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official sites
      • BBC (United Kingdom)
      • Joe Crowley is on Isle Martin, as it prepares to host Scotland's very first seaweed festival.
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • BBC Studios
      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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      30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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