The thrill of time running out also engaged viewers, and Time Teams popularity was rewarded with increasingly longer series. I too wonder why they stopped it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great news that it is ending now we can have even more programs about yobs drinking abroad, crappy makeovers, the life of white van drivers and buying houses that cost 250,000 or more. I take my hat off to them. I am an ex water board worker and I still don t know where they obtained the patience to go into a hole in the ground and dig with a trowel. This article is 10 years old but like a spoiler. I am wondering how many viewers watch the Time Team now. It also produces some amazing factual programmes to expand our knowledge and it is extremely worrying that the latter are being sacrificed for moronic programmes like Big Fat Gypsy Wedding which add nothing to our cultural enlightenment. It was Stewart who discovered the true route of the Roman road as it went through Greenwich Park. But maybe it is time and we need to move on. This biographical article related to British television is a stub. But in this, as in so many other ways, Time Team bucks the trend. time team was one of the best progs ever. Just recently I saw a show about Egypt using satellite infra red survey archaeology that could reveal all the subsurface features accross a whole landscape. It excited the viewers, gave a good history of The United Kingdom, and made one waiting for the next episode, all due to the enthusiasm and clever programming of the show. He worked for several commercial units including Oxford Archaeology and MoLAS (as was), until he started a career at L-P Archaeology. What can replace the jovial banter of all the dedicated team that gave us an insight to what was going on thousands of years ago. TT was an outstanding program. If ever there is a petition to bring this back, count me in. I have several friends who are serious archaeologists who have been dismissive of this program over the years, some of their comments about the lack of time for each dig are valid. Long-serving archaeologists Helen Geake and Stewart Ainsworth would appear less often. Youre right about More4 but try Discovery History which is showing what I think must be very early ones judging by the colour (and amount!) YOU HAVE JUST NOT THOUGHT THIS THROUGH! Not a surprise really when you consider the presence of the suits through all the times that Time Team and others have explored and documented. Great memories sadly missed. HATE all the crap American shows taking over the tv. There is more than enough rubbish shown on tv so why axe a good item that entertains, explains and raises more questions. Gee I feel gutted. but they wont last forever and young blood is always needed. With a fantastic team backed by Keith Westcott and Martin Fiennes, local community support, the possibility of an ongoing legacy, and the guarantee of great archaeology, Broughton Castle ticks all the boxes!, Taylor continues: The Broughton villa promises to be one of the finest examples in Britain. This was the best educational programme that looked forward to every week and also all the repeats that were broadcast on more 4. Her role, as a foil to Sir Tony, was complimentary, and never as an expert. Can anyone help us with the contact? I will miss it desperately and want to say thank you to them all.. What a fantastic 20 years Bye bye Tme TeamI will care for Phils hat .. In other words, archaelogy, teamwork, and interaction in that order. This is in no doubt as a direct result of the post production. A thoroughly good bunch of people with a true PASSION for their subject ! Filmed at Athelney, site of Alfred the Greats apocraphal burnt cakes, the site was scheduled, precluding excavation. Inspiring stuff. Totally agree. If this were a BBC programme, then this alone would be worth the license fee. just found TT on Acorn streaming. The marvelous experts have described items, historical facts and what could have been, may have been and what was likely to have been and possibly how the ancestors [residents and visitors alike] changed the landscape. The implementation of Planning Policy Guidance 16 in 1990 enshrined archaeology within the development process and paved the way for todays professional units. Please bring back Time Team with Tony Robinson. | Phoenix the Dreamer, https://digventures.com/2013/03/tools-down-for-time-team-raksha-dave-on-the-end-of-an-era-and-her-new-adventure/, Current Archaeology Award Winners for 2023 announced, The peaceful Neolithic is dead: the dawn of agriculture coincided with rising violence, Scars of early Civil War battle found at Coleshill Manor. What can replace the jovial banter of all the dedicated team that gave us an insight to what was going on thousands of years ago. I am deeply sisappointed that time team is now defunct its one programme thst I really love I felt that I could learn a little bit about my ancestors in the uk, C4 the tv channel run by lack of imagination. Without any doubt whatsoever Time Team was the best show on TV and a giant amongst the crappy stuff we have to put up with these days such as reality TV shows. The idea/format needs to be revived by BBC4. I regularly tape the programmes as it is shown on a variety of stations, history,yesterday, and channel 4 being some. And there is much yet to dig and poke at historically in the world, let alone Great Britain. You were apparently watching a different show than we were. Obviously I am not the only Australian (albeit English-born) to miss Time Team. After playing a critical role in many of Time Team's digs, from the caves of Cheddar to the jungles of Nevis, Mick . What a lot we learned. It may also be heresy to say so, but I think many people who were interested more in the archaeology than the banter, found the relationship between Phil and Tony, to be past its sell by date. I enjoyed Time Team and I will miss it Carenza and the later Helen Geake were the highlights for me there was always a sense of tension when you heard a shout of Tony not knowing what find theyd unearthed. To all the people who wrote nasty comments on this forum about it, I leave you with this question why are you on this site at all if you didnt love it like the rest of us? Buggering about with scheduling times has buggered many a decent tv series. I had no idea it had finished. I generally watch one episode a night, but on weekends I sometimes binge watch until my eyeballs beg for mercy. Having been a loyal fan for 20 years it beggars belief at the changes made in series 19 without any reference to Mick. This has been one of our few favourite programs; not only has it been informative, but it has been entertaining in the best-possible sense. Eat umble pie you are having a laff. Like Paul said (June 23 comment) you wished you could join them in the pub at the end for a beer . i record all the T T i can i have brought T t dvd. Channel 4 should never have discarded such a treasure. And really, TT changed my life! During that time he deduced the towns Medieval layout. Thank goodness there is a myriad of viewers who appreciate the achievement of Time Team. There is a market here to be tapped. This little part of the world (so far from Australia) was the birthplace of my father in law. Never screened and reputedly lost in the Channel 4 vaults, this pilot captured a show that was as radically different to Timesigns as it was to later Time Team episodes. The meeting was followed by an email to archaeologists last year from Wildfire Television, which makes the programme. Speak for your self! R.i.P. Think again C4, as someone who is 40 years outside your target audience, all axing this program has done is make me switch channels, so demographically relevant or not you have simply lost another viewer and surely viewer numbers are more important than some misguided attempt to only appeal to a certain age group? However I would contact Channel Four to find out when they will be repeating it again and maybe arrange to record the programmes. Said no-one, ever. The huge plus for archaeology in general has been the raising of the profile of a branch of science that prior to this program was the province of a fairly small group of people. I lost my job recently due to illness.time team made my days. Self - Sanday, Orkney (1998) . My politics are not Tony Robinsons or Mick Astons, but both deserve warm congratulations for what they did for archaeology and viewers over two decades.Tony Robinson seems to be largely responsible for the successful populist formula, the zest and the humourand the succinct resumes to stop viewers getting flummoxed., He deserves a knighthood but presumably he would just wrinkle his nose. Now everyone knows the word geophys. The 2013 series is so much better, very like the old times. Sounds as though short sighted suits are at work. For how many years were John Gater and Stuart Ainsworths technical expertise presented as a pat cliche when the work of either could have been expanded? When SBS decided to bring new hip young presenters in to replace the two experienced, knowledgeable and popular presenters who had made it from 1986 to 2004, and made it an institution, the ratings plummeted, and the new format was canned after 2 years. Is Phil Harding a Phd? From Phils glee over Stone Age flints, Tonys wisely playful and challenging banter, Micks sage hand on the digs tiller, Johns gentle determination to get the best cartography the technology can provide, Franciss round house fireside mussing on an Iron Age mans joys in life and Stuart goes walk about so we can get the lay of the land and know our place in it was amazing, every bit of it. Perhaps we could have a US/Canada version? I have enjoyed Time Team from day one. One of the best programmes on television. Archaeologists from Wessex Archaeology, working in advance of HS2 construction, have been excavating the site for the past three years. Ive watched TT for years now and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was so sad to find out that it is finishedCould we bring it back? I loved it and speaking as an Hibernian, the only thing I found mildly irritating was Tonys obsession with all things Roman. People came and went, such as my favourite Robin Bush, but those two remained, as did their stamina and zeal for the show. He is president of the Friends of Epiacum, also known as Whitley Castle, the Roman fort on the southern edge of Northumberland which he has surveyed and studied in depth. And the journey is not quite over yet. The cast will be sorely missed. Oh well, TV is doomed. 20 years of viewing no extra costs Faye, Bridget, Alice et al brightened my week And I learnt something Or we could watch some thick tosspot nobody acting like a tw4t and manufactured into some 3rd rate star. As our first dig back, we were keen on a site that would produce amazing evidence, showcase the very best that Time Team can offer, and allows us to demonstrate to the full the latest technology like LiDAR and GPR, says Taylor. It was broadcast over TVO Toronto Canada. It led to an appreciation of just how much information could be quickly gleaned from comparatively modest trenching. They included a new presenter to join Tony Robinson and decisions to drop some archaeologists and cut down the informative stuff about the archaeology. And as for the Ooh.. Ah, that be cer monial, that be in the dialect of a village idiot just about summed up the whole package. Ive always adored darling Tony Robinson since his days as Baldric, and Mick (RIP), Phil (gotta love him!) Mary-Ann Ochota caused the Time Teams slow demise as she and the behind the scene executives strangled a Team that had worked played and laughed together over so many years making not good but great viewing. They have onbly made a couple of mistakes, 1 was letting Mick go and the other was axing Time Team. Just been reading all the comments, and a lot of sensible thinhs have been said, and a few stupid ignorant ones as well. Very sad to hear Time Team is ending. Just started to watch the latest series on C4, very very sad to be losing it soon. The cast and crew were pretty obviously seriously digging their roles, (bad pun semi-intended sorry about that sort of). Surely television that inspires interest and development is too good to lose? Ive enjoyed watching all the archeologists old and new & think Tony Robinson is a great presenter. Whilst on holiday, I was very keen to spend a day or so, if possible, with the Time Team crew wherever they might be shooting. I am an ex water board worker and I still don t know where they obtained the patience to go into a hole in the ground and dig with a trowel. I have been watching Time Team since its birth and can quite candidly say, I have never seen and enjoyed such a beautiful piece of television. I would love to see as many of the team as posible brought together for specials or even to tell us what they are involved in now. Probably just as well this is the last series, but as many have suggested, a move to BB4 sounds a great idea. Just did the same as Leigh trying to find out when the next series is due to start. Carenza Lewis, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake and geophys genius John Gater will all be returning and are excited about the new sites. Perhaps the BBC could take over where Channel 4 has failed and get back to grass roots like in series 4-6. Sad Time Team series being finished. He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. I have watched Time Team from day one, and now my 11 and 9 year old daughters love to watch it, in fact my youngest commented she would like to be an archaeologist when she grows up, and this is from watching Time Team, I cannot believe Time Team has been axed, its a national institution. I loved watching Time Team in Australia, way better than the American version. There is nothing else like it on TV. Please ressurect it someone soon. British Television just one more nail in your coffin. And Ive always thought tony was perfectly great as the show presenter, interested and fun, a joy to watch. Tamara Cohen for the Daily Mail, Mick Aston, 65, quits historical show after it hires Cambridge graduate Mary-Ann Ochota, 30, Prof Aston was on long-running show for 19 years, DAN WOOTTON: Too old for TV? Subscribe to Current Archaeology the UKs favourite archaeology magazine and like thousands of other people you too can get details of all the latest digs and discoveries delivered to your door, every month. As an amateur digger, I envied TTs resources a JCB on call, geophysics, dendrochronology, C14 dating, DNA analysis. Research digs usually ran for weeks if not months, and it was questioned whether anything approaching responsible archaeology could be achieved in a mere three days. I love archeology, and it was so educational seeing how it is done. He said: The time had come to leave. Ive learnt so much and enjoying every minuteo. As of 2010 Ainsworth has been affiliated with the History and Archaeology department at the University of Chester, where he is a visiting professor. I learn so much. The UK is lucky that it has such a long history. She was replaced by Helen Geake, Anglo-Saxon specialist. WellRay Watters has voiced my opinions exactlywatched every show many timeslearnt a vast amountlaughed aloudcried for Robin Bush.visited many siteswatched live digs on the internetfavourite themes are Saxon/Medievil so the latest episode at Oakham was superbWhat can we doCan we get our own website or freeview channel or satelite channelTHE TIME TEAM CHANNELwowendless repeats and a vast back catalougei have every episode on a hard drivedont tellsssshhhh.I would be very happy to subscribei am currently paying over 20 a month for Sky Sports and only watch it about 5 times a weekPlease let me know what you think and lets hear which are your favouritesmine is Hartlepool as this is where i am and my mother was born on the site of the Ancient AbbeyHeres hoping. Thank you, thank you, Ive loved the passion, warmth, fun, humour and absolute professionalism that you all have brought to history. And so disappointed in ch4. He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. I wonder if some young Channel 4 TV executive is proud of his/her decisions. I dont understand what purpose that serves, but there you have it. I had drawn him into the subject a few years after we married but I had the privilege of degree training. Interesting, in these days where we (oldies) are not responding to adverts as much as the supposed young and affluent to think of alternative crowd-sourcing models for financing programs that we like. I have watched Time Team since day one, and until the last two or three series have always enjoyed it. Who was the idiot that canceled it??? and have watched it since the begining. Time Team announces historic comeback with 2021 dig at huge Oxfordshire Roman villa that may be 'almost the size of Buckingham Palace'. And now it has been pulled, left to the re-marketing of DVD, and the Internet. By
Self - Downpatrick, County Down (1998) . Now we are nearing the end of Series XX I feel a tinge of sadness that a programme which both educates and informs will be with us no more. With Season 20 airing next year, and a series of one-off specials running into 2014, there is still new Time Team on the way. I want to salute everyone involved in this show! Raphael, you cant have the old cast back. The same has been witnessed with the BBC. I am an American who did real dirt archeology thirty years ago.I dug at at three historic sites and one protohistoric site in East Central Illinois. And what lies behind the strange decision to give us two rehashes of old material at the end of the 19th season? . I feel sure we havent heard the last either. (Then, of course, it goes straight to Hell). He joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (now part of English Heritage) in 1985, and is now head of its Landscape Investigation Team based in York, England. Phil is fantastic as he has always been. With regards to a few folks comments about Tony Robinson. For me Time Team was a cultural oasis in a desert of dumb and lazy TV. We have watched it form the start and enjoyed it on various level hugely. Most of these posts hope that the Beeb could resurrect TT somehow, but AN ENORMOUS THANK YOU TO THE CAST AND CREW FOR THE FABULOUS YEARS THEY HAVE GIVEN US. It used to be on in the early evening at a specific time every week, but in recent years it has been moved to late afternoon with the start time changing by 5, 10, 15 minutes over the weeks making watching and even recording it more problematic. and I just came across the time team on my tablet in November 2019. Does Phil Harding have a PHD? DigNation 20 tickets are now on sale: https://digventures.com/projects/dignation-2020/ Can archaeologist see time depth, just by looking? It was season 19 that changed everything. irritating but he was a part of a recipe that worked for a long time. Whilst on youtube, also check out dig ventures; another fantastic project with another familiar face. Like Philip Lethbridge I would be happy to watch TT for ever. Im 78 years old. I loved the banter between Tony, Phil and Mick and anyone could see they enjoyed their jobs. This is the sort of Programme that would thrive on BBC 2 in conjunction with The Open University. What lies under the ground of the countrys past. http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html Id say it was as his programmes/stories Time Team were canceled by BBC (see the websites: Channel 4 Time Team and Time Team: the rise and fall of a television phenomenon). Its our favoite show. I had no idea it was finishing until yesterday and I missed the last viewing as I have flu and have been sleeping a lot.. OH DEAR ! He has since appeared in over two hundred episodes. Lee. What proved to be the fateful conversation took place in a Little Chef on the Okehampton bypass. Such speed was certainly not ideally suited to showcase all of the techniques available to modern archaeologists. well done on ending one of the best programs on tele. He worked his sox off. I assume it will be more imported American rubbish or so called comedy. report. In addition, people are re-discovering the magic and history of their local areas and the wellbeing that can be derived from activities like archaeology. Do specials instead of a series. Yes, we all love the longtime archaelogists (sorry, cant do stars I would say they wouldnt like it either it is rather derogatory of their abilities!) Incidentally, to my British friends & fellow TT fans I have to say that I agree with the comments in this thread that the American shows that BBC chooses to air in the UK are garbage, but what a shame the excellent documentaries and history-related productions are not offered in your part of the world. (Cardiff hillfort). For those people who wish to view old episodes back to day 1 surely all you need to do is put channel 4, possibly you may need to add UK.com, if overseas, into your search engine,register on line,confirm e mail address and then enter Time Team in the search box.You can even view Time Signs the original pilot series. I cannot believe that Mick Aston has died, so very young, I thought he would go on forever. Not a Tony Robinson fan myself but he is part of the show. Thank you Time Team for all those wonderful hours of thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. In 2011 the production centre for the programme moved from London to Cardiff. Tim Taylor explains because weve involved Wessex Archaeology in our work for the last 10 or so years the reports are really good quality. Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth: Rivers & Roads | Ancient Routes - Landscape Archaeology 46,819 views Premiered Jan 29, 2022 Join us, as Time Team's Landscape Archaeologist Stewart. In the immediate aftermath of a programmes cancellation it is traditional to attempt a post-mortem of what went wrong. I am totally gutted to learn of the demise of TT. He trained as a surveyor before entering the archaeology section of the Ordnance Survey. It wasnt perfect but the catty remarks are uncalled for. Dont let it stop you Margaret. Far too many highlights to choose a favourite, but Ill always have a soft spot for the tone of Tony Robinsons voice when he explained that the sash-cum-swordbelt worn by Saxon fighters was called a baldric.
Prof Mick, great bloke and always so calm, Carensa made a lot of episodes more entertaining and TR a god of comedy and history. Oh! Weve been able to order some DVDs from Australia, but we have missed many of the series since we moved here, and there is no way to watch them online. I am sure the essence of archeology would be attractive to a core audience once again. But Channel 4 has dumb it down, the last episode i watched was at Henham Park down the road from me, They found out nothing that wasnt local knowledge already. Thank you to all of Time Team for 20 wonderful years. and long may you show them PLEASE pauline x, I am trying to get a contact e-mail address for Tim Taylor (IV) because a group of archeologists in Canada would like to see a Time Team Canada started and we need advice and any other help from the expert. It will be sorely missed. For those too grief stricken to cope right now, subscribe to the youtube video blog of Dig Village. We do have money too you know. What will Ch4 spend its money on now, even more American imports? No, sadly when it comes to TV, viewers dont get what they want, they get what they are given Trouble is, the people who make these decisions can be misguided, and very stupid. Best wishes to everyone ever involved with the show. So sad to see the demise of TT. The programme has no need for eye candy, no need to try to attract yuppies: archaeology is like genealogy interest grows (although not exclusively) with age. The first show of 1994 featured a young, dark, long-haired Tony The Wildman Baldric Robinson, with a equally younger long haired Mick Aston, some of which was not quite all grey. By clicking Accept all you agree that Yahoo and our partners will process your personal information, and use technologies such as cookies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights, and product development. With Mick in his amazing technicolor jumpers playing father and patient teacher, fielding Tonys laymans questions, Phil as the eccentric uncle who could dig with the instincts of a terrier after a bone, John and his whiz-bang geo-phys, and all the other children hard at work in their specialties, the programme wasnt merely TIME TEAM it was TIME FAMILY. I will miss my bit of kulcha. With Tony Robinson, Phil Harding, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth. BBC4 seems to have picked up the baton, thank goodness.!! i say dont be too quick to make a stupid decision. It is located on the Broughton Estate in Oxfordshire, belonging to the Fiennes family. While Time Team unquestionably experienced problems, particularly in its final years, this much-loved show was an astonishing success, propelling modern archaeology into the public conscious as never before. All I can tell u is that I was hooked. It is about time ABC Australia got there act together and started to replay ALL the episodes, from the first, so that we dont all go crazy from withdrawal symptoms. Margie, NZ No other archaeology programmes on any channels tackle the wide range of sites and periods that TT did or inspired many to become keen amateurs or to start a career in archaeology. Yes, speak for yourself! The only thing that surprises me is that they didnt include a so called comedian. I have watched TT for the last 20 years from my mid 20s. By the way I am 52, so I guess I am too old for channel 4, but tell my kids that. One of the people she missed was Carenza Lewis. It was just a ridiculous Channel 4 attempt to appeal to younger viewers, and failed dismally. Yes/No? Such a shame its being axed at a time its claimed the viewing figures are at its highest make little sense to me. Time team is irreplaceable. yours MRS HILDA LESLEY CARRINGTON. It is sad to read the mechanics of its demise and, worse, to see it played out on screen. Now, instead of honest archeology, we are going to be swamped with American hystorical programming, in which they assume we all have a 1 second attention span, need constant recaps (at least 4 per 10 minute part) and need it all (badly) acted out by ridiculous, cheap, and hugely inaccurate costumes, backgrounds and language. The obvious situation is that if it kept to the original cast ( which it did not ), then there would be a problem immediately when someone left, or passed on. I have only recently discovered TT and am currently watching 4 episodes a day, courtesy of More 4 and Discovery History channels, and am utterly devastated to learn that it has been axed. He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. So sad to see my favourite programme on Channel 4 being axed. 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