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 was digging my veg patch yesterday and I found a napped piece of flint. While the yet-to-air season 20 promises a return to more-traditional Time Team values, it was too late. It was season 19 that changed everything. Not everyone takes change happily., The comments below have not been moderated, By
If I were an enterprising producer on another channel, I would start a new series that build on the fascinating skills of Stuart A. Only problem is the core members are getting on a bit, so no chance of it going another 20 years. I had to think about it before I realized what he meant. I was surfing the internet to obtain correct titles for some episodes that I recorded earlier. I loved watching time team I want it to come back on the tv I miss watching it on Sunday afternoon. very sad day that channel 4 are taking time team off the air.when time team started my husband and watch the show and we were hooked from then on. This biographical article about a British archaeologist is a stub. But for me the real genius is Stewart who can look at a landscape and tell you what it was like hundreds of years ago. i never knew the show existed until last year 2021. any chance for reunions and a chance to interact as like conventions do here in the usa? Was it her sultry beauty, or easy going attitude that rubs some the wrong way ? Yes I agree I miss fresh episode aswell please come back, Yes I agree, the quality of weekend television is terrible give us back some interesting programs, Still record and watch the show love it all I can say is Bring back Time Team. Series Producer and creator of Time Team, Tim Taylor says, They did it! It was wonderful stuff and it was so great to be able to sit on the informed and incredibly interesting conversations between the archaeologists and the repartee with Tony Robinson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRe_gMtXNo. Maybe it was better to end the show before they replaced the entire cast with celebrities from TOWIE. The money was well spent, and today only five Time Team sites remain unpublished a record that shames many UK units and academics. My idea of heaven, sitting in pub day 1, discussing what has/has not been found, what may/may not be found, Phil looking for flint, Mick not wanting Roman, Carenza keeping the peace, John anxious about the ploughed geophys, Tony querying the tentative theories, and Stuart saying its the wrong place! i say dont be too quick to make a stupid decision. The fact that TT was the only programme I regularly watched on Channel 4 I am very sad to see it go. It needed to get back to its roots look at the early episodes to see why it was successful. With regards to a few folks comments about Tony Robinson. Time team is one of the programs I love to watch. A unique combination of expertise, enthusiasm and humour. That doesnt work in the US. I am totally gutted to learn of the demise of TT. Its prototype was Timesigns, a four-part series that aired in 1991. He only lives about 10 miles away. Now I will be stuck with overproduced, watered down supposedly historically accurate twaddle , We held a bit of a poll a few years ago with the Pagan Federation as to what the favourite TV programme was. Im sorry to see that TT is folding though. thank god for the repeats. I dont think I could stand watching Phils grotty hat for one more season. It opened my eyes up to so much of the UK, in particular my ignorance of Roman settlement. What am I going to do now knowing there isnt an unending stream of new TTs to feed my addiction? if there is a petition please let me know.i would like to put our names down. Towards the end of its run an average episode would cost around 200,000 a budget more on the scale of a small drama show in the eyes of television insiders but over 20 years Channel 4 pumped 4 million directly into British archaeology. Despite the Ancient Monuments Laboratory having drawn a blank the year before, Johns state-of-the-art kit revealed the monastic complex in startling clarity. I agree what will replace it I can see more reality programmes cooking programmes selling houses nothing to work the mind channel 4 must be out of thier tiny mind. Some of them are dead, and the rest have moved on. An episode where a workplace expert was on stand by for structural shoring when common sense would have not wasted this kind of expense. With Phil Harding also on board, three members of the future Time Team core were in place. I met Phil Harding a few years ago at old sarum castle, Salisbury, we had a lovely chat, hes a fab bloke. It is that dull and droll science of Archeology, which when one attends a lecture on the subject, or a program on television normally results in boredom, numbness, squirming, or easy sleep. Hi Serena, you can find a complete episode and series guide of all 230 programmes plus the specials on this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Time_Team_episodes Plenty more to come for you yet, if only More 4 would stop repeating the same episodes over and over again and show some of the others they could keep you (and the rest of us) happy for years to come. Cheers. Have just watched the very last episode of my beloved Time Team And feel desperately sad.. Time Team is a victim of Channel 4s misguided quest for progress, and we hope that, in some form, the programme may rise like the phoenix from the ashes and take on a persona not far removed from the popular format. Hopefully some other channel will take up the format eventually. Thank you, Time Team!!! He should have stuck to presenting instead of trying to take command. I take my hat off to them. Such a fantastic guide, love it. Its like having a child grow up and leave home The cast felt like family that I would visit each weekend and even my 11 year old daughter enjoyed it so much she joined a young archaeologists club. time team was one of the best progs ever. Channel Four seem to be missing a trick that gthe BBC would have undoubtedly have profited from by issuing DVDs of the most important digs over the years. Self Show all 7 episodes 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? I was especially interested in the programme on Looe Island chapel as my grandparents once owned Looe Island and I had been there and walked over the chapel remains. My wife was not well for several years & she found Time Team to be one of the few programs worth watching. 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. (Bog Latin). Save Time Team Campaign is taking off really fast now, over 1,500 signatures & support from celebrity. It announced that after 20 seasons and over 230 episodes the programme was being axed by Channel 4. What is wrong with older viewers? 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. Obliged to cut evaluation trenches to meet the deadlines of multi-million pound construction projects, the 1990s saw a surge in short-term excavation projects. Shame I can now only watch it at 5am on the History channel. As Francis Pryor observed on his blog, in many ways the real question is what went right?. Buggering about with scheduling times has buggered many a decent tv series. This biographical article related to British television is a stub. 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. paleo-osteology, finds experts, experts in the Bronze Age or Rome I am as raptured as Phil squatting in a newly opened trench exclaiming, Oooh! 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 ! Margie, NZ Their participation and enthusiasm clear for all to see. 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. Stewart Ainsworth FSA, MCIfA is a British archaeological investigator who is regularly seen on Time Team the Channel 4 archaeological television series he joined in 1995. report. We always joke about that, but I think its indicative of how people understand archaeology is a process. Self - Deya, Mallorca, Spain (1998) . 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 said it was seeking a female co-presenter who does not have to be overly experienced or knowledgeable as we have plenty of expertise within the existing team. Phew! What a wonderful 20 years we/they had. Tim Taylor explains because weve involved Wessex Archaeology in our work for the last 10 or so years the reports are really good quality. It is just so sad to read all of these comments, like a requiem for a friend. 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. As a teacher of Ancient and Modern History in Australia, I found the T.T programs a wonderful way to back up the various topics I taught. & has never been more pi**ed off 2 here that its being 2023. I have just found out about the decision by C4 to axe Time Team, which was surely one of the best programmes on any television station anywhere. The roman barge in Utrect was particularly interesting and my son in Holland wished to see it. Lively interpersonal dynamics, celebratory meals and wine, inviting locals to learn more about the world around them back in time, diverse resources and approaches coordinating and appreciating each other- some reading. 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 .. Thank you. You only have to look at the demographic to see that a model was not going to be an asset to TT. BBC4 seems to have picked up the baton, thank goodness.!! Many a critic was silenced by seeing the team in action. Enough said. I liked the pictures Victor did on several shows which showed the principals in historical costumes. This programme could have run and run with the younger people such as Helen Geake, Brigid, Matt and Raksha taking it into the next 20 years. Never too late to register shock and disgust at the decision to axe Time Team which has opened up the hidden world of archaeology to generations. A monumental row and walk out, one would guess. As an aside seeing your label Non-Richardian Yorkist what are your feelings about the parking lot discovery? One of the best programmes on television. When discussing the latest TT episode at work/with friends sadly there doesnt seem to be many others who watch it, Ive always been interested in history so maybe its just me & maybe the young people of today arent being taught that history can be exciting/interesting. DREADFUL ! Miss TT so much. I do not think that the British tourism board and channel 4 realize how much interest world wide their is in British history. Leave it to an insular management team to screw it up. maybe someone will dig you out of the tombs of c4 in time. well done on ending one of the best programs on tele. 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!) What an absolutely stupid decision to ax Time Team! Time team is irreplaceable. Very sad that all great things have to come to an end one day. Thank you,Mick, for all that you gave us.and thanks to Micks family for sharing him with us. axed is their a petition running ????? I loved Mick and Phil and Stuart et all, picking on Matt for any rotton job. Here in NZ we are only now starting Series 19,in Bitterly, at present. Spent many an hour intrigued by the whole show and the people on it. Speak for your self! Perhaps we can come up with a crew of our own with Ronald Hutton replacing Tony Robinson and I do know of a great film crew that would take up the filming. (3 different history channels, Discovery channel, Travel channel, Military channel, National Geographic channel the list goes on and on. After a career as a professional geologist I researched for a PhD at the Palace of Knossos on Crete. Thank goodness for DVDs of past episodes. I found TR irritating at times but accepted him as part of the show. RESURRECT THE PAST! The UK is lucky that it has such a long history. Well said, Paul! will take it on. I was introduced to Time Team when visiting relatives in Selby and have loved this family of buffs who presented the UK to the world at large. The students became instant converts to the program. There are many pagan archeologists too. Sadly,she passed away 2 years ago but before she went, she told me not to forget to watch TT. does anybody really care what those idiots say surely it is what the public want that matters but no channel 4 has a foolllll running it.. heavan forbid we should have a great program T T ware we think and enjoy it plus it is great family veiwing and may i say also very interresting. It took off instantly and has been there going from strength to strength since 2004. 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. I am! Thanks to all the past & present members of the crew and cast. But thanks guys and I am pretty sure that someone somewhere will pick up the baton. What a hero! I want Time Team brought back. There is a market here to be tapped. Vale Time Team, you will be missed. We may not see its like again. Will miss the team, at least we have more 4. Series Producer and creator of Time Team, Tim Taylor says . I cannot believe that there will be no more Time Team, I hope the idiots at channel 4 read this site. However I would contact Channel Four to find out when they will be repeating it again and maybe arrange to record the programmes. The villa is a tantalising prospect a grand building almost as big as Buckingham Palace. British Television just one more nail in your coffin. We range in age from 8yrs to 82yrs and have loved Tony, Mick, Phil, Carenza, Helen, Faye, geophys John and most of all Stuart. 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. and use my iPad to follow through my own enquirers. Gee I feel gutted. Changing all the staff behind Time Team was a big mistake, but ending it is even bigger. They have onbly made a couple of mistakes, 1 was letting Mick go and the other was axing Time Team. I have offten mention to my husband, I wonder what the site look like after the the TT have left. We totally agree with Nick Robinson, we too will be enjoying repeats and cursing Channel 4!. I have always loved history but the subjects in school were dull. Great memories sadly missed. Time Team was the product (exclusively) of Channel 4 a commercial TV-only company that was created in the early 80s. Channel 4 obviously think we are all brain dead morons who need to watch the endless mind numbing soaps or the even more pathetic American rubbish that now dominates our screens. Were back thanks to the overwhelming support of our fans!. Admittedly, in the last year or so I have found myself increasingly disinterested in the programme. Out of interest, Time Team fans, how many of you would be willing to pay directly to watch new programs? 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