Matt Baker has opened up about what it's like filming with his family - including his parents, Janice and Mike. The Countryfile presenter and his family are no strangers to the spotlight, having previously collaborated on Matt Baker's Our Farm in the Dales.

In an exclusive chat with Express.co.uk in 2024, Matt addressed some of the challenging decisions they've had to make while filming their shows, including Matt Baker: Travels with Mum and Dad, which aired last year.

When speaking about filming for Matt Baker: Travels with Mum and Dad, the presenter explained: "We used to do these little trips away, where we would go and see how our wool was being processed in the wool mills, and so we just basically supersized that concept of these rural days out.

"And the key with it is they're always close to home because obviously, having a farm, you can't go far. And plus, with the dad being like 80, the reality of them planning to go on some sort of adventure was never going to be the case."

On the topic of the future of Our Farm in the Dales, Matt didn't rule out the possibility of another series. "There are no plans not to do it," he admitted, adding: "It's the question everybody keeps asking me, 'Are you doing more on the farm?'

"We didn't do it as a TV programme idea, it sort of happened. It was an interesting story of how it actually evolved because I was sort of having meetings with different TV channels with our production company.

"When we started the work [on the farm], we'd actually started doing all of this stuff before we turned the cameras on, and I was having all these meetings, I was doing a Zoom, and it was chaos."

"It seems to sort of happened off the back of that, and it's been really successful. People have loved it, but we're now in our third series where I think the key is that we're not going far," he added.

Matt's series "blew up," and he believes its success lay in portraying not just the romantic side of farming but also the tough reality, as viewers tuned in to see the Baker family faced with challenging decisions.

The Countryfile star confessed: "We were all surprised by how successful it was, but I'm really proud of it, and it's something that because although it was about farming, it was also about the difficult things that all families go through.

"And when you get those big decisions, where, for mum, choosing to change direction on the farm and to make decisions in families, when you decide to do something different. And, we sort of filmed that process of deciding how to make things easier, going forward, and more sustainable.

"And honestly, the amount of correspondence that I've had from people say, 'it's difficult to have those conversations' but even if you don't live on a farm, it's the same thing, families go through the same thing all the time, and we were doing it to a backdrop on the farm, which made it visual and practical to see those things happening. But actually, the conversations that it started were more important."

Discussing the series' conclusion, Matt said it represented the "natural end of a chapter." Elaborating on the matter, he said, "So that's why we didn't sort of decide to stop filming it; it's just the end of that process."

Explaining further, Matt added, "It was a real, natural, end of that chapter, so that's why we haven't done any more."