Best of all, the cameras were rolling to capture the archaeologists euphoria as the geophysical plot emerged from a bulky printer in the back of the survey vehicle. As an amateur digger, I envied TTs resources a JCB on call, geophysics, dendrochronology, C14 dating, DNA analysis. This is true I dont go to bed without at least watching one episode I would too love to get involved but at 67 a bit too old. .As always it will, I supposed be replaced by some run of the mill program, American sit com or soap. How many people can look back on a twenty years span of such a masterful contribution to human culture? Time Team To Be Reinstated! I was devastated to hear of the demise of this wonderful programme, but once they made the decision to bring in the awful Mary Ann Ochota as a co-presenter, the programme was doomed. Yes, Phil can still shift the muck but check out his work on lithics studies and you might change your opinion. Now everyone knows the word geophys. He is President of the Friends Of Epiacum, the Roman fort on the southern edge of Northumberland which he has surveyed and studied in depth. The team of Tony, Mick, Phil, Stuart, John, Carenza, Brigid, Guy, etc etc filled me with warmth and satisfaction. It will be sad for it to end, but theres still a few epsiodes I havent seen. RIP Time Team. Channel 4s loss their gain :) Now I have no reason what ever to watch ch 4 now or in the future . Oh Dear. Tapped into the national zeitgeist, its stars were household names and at its zenith Time Team was pulling in audiences of 3 3.5 million viewers. I was surfing the internet to obtain correct titles for some episodes that I recorded earlier. Most days, I have been watching the TT repeats on More Four in the afternoons. The focus groups of today, the council chambers of yesteryear; all determined to make their mark, put their talent on show. So sad to hear that it came to an end. I THINK THIS IS A SHOCKING DECISION AND CAN ONLY HOPE THAT IT IS REVERSED!!! She completely ruined it, and led to Mick Aston walking out on the show. This is just swell. Its interesting that Ch 4 is dropping a program on history and education, are they really dumbing down to suit a younger age group whose programs contain bad language smut and sex, bad attitudes and a large sense of self. Time Team went out of fashion because the rest of us got sick of being patronised by Tony Robinson, who seemed incapable of letting an entire episode pass without a snide comment or a sermon about man-made global warming. Raphael, you cant have the old cast back. The enthusiasm shown by the crews, the information, the chance to get a flavour of what made our country and the historical influences in each area. Years earlier, Sir Mortimer Wheeler did some Archaeology pgms on TV and they were always popular. Like Concorde, should be rescued by someone BBC and revamped ASAP. Time Team was the product (exclusively) of Channel 4 a commercial TV-only company that was created in the early 80s. It was this show that gave me the inspiration to study history and I will really miss it. Not a Tony Robinson fan myself but he is part of the show. I dont think I could stand watching Phils grotty hat for one more season. Like others I would like to see somebody else either bringing it back or developing the format. 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. I loved Mick and Phil and Stuart et all, picking on Matt for any rotton job. When not filming, Stewart also works as an investigator and project manager for English Heritage. The worst thing they did was sex it up. I have just realised that time team is to be axed by c4. Karenza Lewis archaeological sex on legs. Lets not overlook Public Broadcastng with its excellent programming, either). Whilst not filming Phil still works as a field archaeologist with Wessex Archaeology, and has been involved in a project listing all known Palaeolithic sites in Britain. Channel 4 manages to produce some really rubbish reality programmes to titivate the youthful masses it hopes to attract. The result was a previously unknown 5th-century monastic enclosure linked to St Columba. I made this ages ago and thought someone here MIGHT like it? I now live in Australia and love watching shows on my homeland. This is in no doubt as a direct result of the post production. and use my iPad to follow through my own enquirers. My dad worked for the National Park Service and I was born quite near Chaco Canyon[(a universally important archeological site) in a Navajo mission(Christian) hospital]. Beautifully expressed, Andrew. It all got too big, too ambitious. Very sad that all great things have to come to an end one day. There is a focus on interesting, previously discovered, artefacts, while pipe music lends an almost mystical air to proceedings. the only programmes on t v seems to me rubbish what are all the staff going to do as they have been on the show for so long. 2023 CURRENT PUBLISHING LTD - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Really gutted TT has finished, and shame on Channel 4 for this decision! TT was an utter revelation. We live in USA. Instead John Gater, the programmes geophys wizard (see CA 252), surveyed the field. I agree with the above sentiments, get the brilliant crew back. It has also helped me find out more about my own history that goes back to U.K. Have caught onto Time Team on the History Channel. What is wrong with older viewers? yours MRS HILDA LESLEY CARRINGTON. Good bye Mick. Goodbye, Time Team, and thank you. He completed his undergraduate and Master's degrees at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London before embarking on a career in commercial archaeology. It is obvious to me that they were always working on their format and that Tony was the TV guy while the others were the science folks. Fret not, the programs will haunt the repeats channels until they become their own archaeology as a worked example of how the medium started to dictate the content. there was total outrage and ABC picked it up with the two oldies . I have enjoyed Tony Robinsons commentaries. I would joke with my kids when doing some gardening that I might unearth a roman soldier or a roman coin. An audience study in 2006 indicated that 20 million people watched at least one show that year. TT was an outstanding program. A relative alerted us to Time Team knowing.my husband and I were long term enthusiasts. . Surely, the way forward would have been to dig deeper into the technical aspects of the archaeology and to speak to the intelligent audience that made the program in the first place whether the sites themselves or the techniques being employed. Its an opportunity to find new voices and should help launch a new generation of archaeologists, under the guidance and watchful eye of Mr Taylor! Quod erat demonstrandum. I have scoured the Internet watching every episode I can find, some more than once. Surely a revamp, no helicopters, fewer paid staff, smaller archaeological objectives, involve communities more hence free labour would help. Time Team! Bringing in that awful woman for the last series was the straw that broke the camels back. Mick Aston was a remarkable person intelligent and well informed but still able to get complicated concepts across in an way that was accessible to all. Im writing this having just had my daily lunchtime fix of a Tiime Team repeat on More 4. Unfortunately my DVD recording did not work. Thank you channel 4 Thank you very very much . If it doesnt involve foul-mouthed yobs eating too much, drinking too much or better still both, they arent bovvered. Victor Ambrus peerless ability to bring the past to life on the fly, for example, was harnassed after his artwork caught Tim Taylors eye in Readers Digest. I have watched most episodes many times and it is a joy to come across one I have never seen before. Self - Deya, Mallorca, Spain (1998) . The site is of national importance and we couldnt hope for a better team to help uncover its secrets., Time Teams return has had the backing of many celebrity fans, from Sir Michael Morpurgo and Bernard Cornwell to Philippa Gregory, Kate Mosse and Ken Follett. I wonder how much is wasted on their wages. Its a shame we didnt see you and the team doing more international locations. Thanks for the many years of wonderful, intelligent, entertainment Time Team, we will really miss you. Crazy. I love a list and now I can tick off which ones Ive seen in a suitably anal fashion. Stewart Ainsworth is Time Team's Landscape Archaeologist. In this months Science Notes, we will explore the evidence for this hypothesis, and examine how violence-related injuries are distinguished in archaeological human remains. Time Time could go on indefinitely as long as it found a sympathetic home, and BBC Four would be ideal, their audience demographic would fit far far better than the current Channel 4 one, which is increasingly to try and chase the Reality/Makeover show market at the expense of original programming, and attract audiences that the advertisers prefer to exploit, rather than those with brain. We are aiming to reach our target of at least 5,000 patrons by the end of March and well then be in position to dig at least one other site the Iron Age settlement this year and carry out preliminary research on others., Our goal is to create a legacy for these sites, says Taylor, building ongoing relationships with local communities and archaeologists that continue to yield fresh insights. Sorry I dont know how to do this! Geake with Stewart Ainsworth while filming an episode of Time Team in 2007 She first worked for Time Team in 1998 as a digger, and took part occasionally thereafter as an Anglo-Saxon specialist. The fact that TT was the only programme I regularly watched on Channel 4 I am very sad to see it go. 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. If I were an enterprising producer on another channel, I would start a new series that build on the fascinating skills of Stuart A. Would love to see a new Time Team series up and running again especially now theyve found King Richard llls body, also instead of 3 days to uncover make it a 5-7 days to uncover maybe Geo-physics could find out a lot more information so here is a challenge to all the mainstream TV channels bring back Time Team! Found Time Team on You Tube. 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. IT DID NOT NEED JAZZING UP. Ive enjoyed watching all the archeologists old and new & think Tony Robinson is a great presenter. It works when the product and the people who are involved are so good. Struck by how much could be learnt in a few hours, Tim wondered what could be achieved in a few days. I was just looking for where any dig sites would be this year and discovered the program was being axed! of Tonys and Phils hair. And Ive always thought tony was perfectly great as the show presenter, interested and fun, a joy to watch. I agree with Brian, a petition might make Ch4 sit up and realise that we, the viewers, have got brains and like to watch programs with interesting and informative content. But would be top stuff if BBC 4 could pick it up and get things back on track. It was Stewart who discovered the true route of the Roman road as it went through Greenwich Park. What a hero! It enabled a local group to secure Historic Lottery Fund money to dig the site. Weve also done the landscapes around them, so if you want additional information then the Time Team reports contain that.. I suppose theres nothing wrong with her per se, but her presence is utterly unnecessary. I think the writing was on the wall when the powers that be messed about with it, moving its base to Cardiff and losing quality staff and goodwill. And, unlike Phil and Mick, one didnt long to give her a haircut!! I enjoy his style of presentation. And the team. Its amazing. Hated that glamour woman simply the wrong feel.. Very, very sorry that management mis-handling killed it. I would also back the idea that rural people have the most interest as they can see the landscape every day and the changes on it. With Phil Harding also on board, three members of the future Time Team core were in place. Eight years after the long-running archaeology series stopped filming, Time Team is set to return with two new excavations scheduled for later this year. my point in this is, why try to fix it if it aint broke change is not always as good as a rest. I AM SO UPSET AT THE ENDING OF TIME TEAM ! 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. We, Yahoo, are part of the Yahoo family of brands. There is a market here to be tapped. Anyone who visited one of their digs while shooting was underway will have seen the devotion it inspired in members of the public. Yes please BBC4 or anyone sensible Time Team will always be popular if you listen to Tony (yes I am a fan) Mick and Phil and Helen (yes I am an even bigger fan of these guys). I wonder if some young Channel 4 TV executive is proud of his/her decisions. will take time, i was successfull on a Campaign on another show before so i know what i have to do, The Campaign is to have a new lease of life on another tv channel. Without Time Team I would not have known how much I could enjoy archaeology and Im pretty sure its why my 7 year old wants to be an archaeologist when she grows up. The 2013 series is so much better, very like the old times. If Tim Taylor or anyone at Channel 4 ever got the itch in their pants to dig it all up again (pun intended) it would be so awesome. My parents watch it. The time team has brought history, archaeology, geophys and a devoted team of professionals into my life. Their intention is to uncover the remains of a number of plantation houses that now are no more than ruins. I sincerely hope this will be remedied. Archeology isnt aloof anymoreTT built a bridge between laymen and pros! Vale Time Team, you will be missed. That way we still get our fix when we want to remind ourselves how good this series was. Learned lots of the history of the show from these posts but I dont know whether Ive seen the cleavage or whether Micks absence from a dig is because hes doing something else, on hols etc or because hes gone. i have seen every episode of time team and ive never seen him mention anything like that other than one time, so you are a complete moron and need to look up what the word patronize means since i am now patronizing you. A number of archaeological old hands were sacrificed in favour of more youthful presenters. Stick to Postman Pat, Time Team is too intellectual for you. So apart from discovering the female cleavage (along with Kleenex tissues) looking for Saxon pottery designed to hold bovine waste, expanding your knowledge of Saxon tea services as well as teaching both Vivian Westwood and Tony & Guy a thing or twowhat other skills have you learned since watching Time Team? Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth on How To See Time In The Landscape. It is practically unheard of for a factual, specialist programme to spend two decades as the public face of its subject and become a national institution along the way. We wish Phil, Mick, Helen, Sir Tony and the team well for the future and thank them for the pleasure they have brought us. In all fairness thank you C4 for having the foresight to do the programme in the first place but put the money saved back into culture, dont invest it in any more fly on the wall or the only way is type of programmes or you may just lose any of the credibility youve gained. Tony Robinson, global warming? 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. Your contribution to TV and Archeology is now history itself! I wish I could study with Mick Ashton. You can change your choices at any time by visiting your privacy controls. Poor second best but something is better than nothing. Spent time today discussing post-holes with a friend, others around thought we were crazy, but thats what Time Team was all about. The roman barge in Utrect was particularly interesting and my son in Holland wished to see it. Hopefully some other channel will take up the format eventually. The more who sign it the better, I have and so have my family. It was my favourite show for many years and definitely, for me, left so many other scientifically accurate but boring-as-bat-poo documentaries in its dust. He trained as a surveyor before entering the archaeology section of the Ordnance Survey. Carenzas missing as is Helen, I see Mick walked out as I also presume Stewart has too. Some episodes Ive seen over three times each. But when he returned to Britain, Tony found the studios equally intransient. Regarding Time Team's potential return, which was realised in 2022 after an eight-year hiatus, Ainsworth said: "Time Team has probably been one of the biggest things that has happened to archaeology for many years to make archaeology and history accessible, and we need to keep that profile going whatever way we can. 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. Alan Gale is 100% correct. The cast will be sorely missed. 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.
It brought the money and expertise to investigate sites that would otherwise never have been touched. time team r.i.p. Posted by 27 days ago. By the summer of 2012 Channel 4 no longer wanted old Time Team. I am wondering how many viewers watch the Time Team now. 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. I loved Time Team in its early format but over the years got fed up listening to the boffins suddenly announcing a high status (Favourite phrase of TT) building eg temple or palace had been found after unearthing a piece of stonework that would get lost in my rockery. The technology now at our disposal, and a new generation of archaeologists joining the team, is a fantastic prospect. 7 comments. The foregoing is an exhausting but entertaining read. I am looking forward to last series and specials over the next 2 years.The end of an era. Oh! Mick, can I come work for you? I feel like i know all of the presenters personally they had that effect on people.I watched it evolve over the years and couldnt wait for each knew series. The team are irreplaceable, such a huge whole left in life once the program ended. Some of them are dead, and the rest have moved on. Here in NZ we are only now starting Series 19,in Bitterly, at present. The more TV appeal execs tried to inject, the less people wanted to watch. What better way of introducing archaeology to young people than for them to see it on a Sunday afternoon? They were digging Roman ruins in someones back garden and explaining in detail what they were doing and what it told them hooked then and there. What screwed up Time Time was poor scheduling two years ago and an attempt to sex up the show and this failed miserably. In 2003, I joined the amateur Biggar Archaeology Group which, among other achievements, discovered the oldest known archaeological site in Scotland. I loved it and speaking as an Hibernian, the only thing I found mildly irritating was Tonys obsession with all things Roman. Were back thanks to the overwhelming support of our fans!. 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. Look at Lee Bradys comment 23rd Jan. Theres a link for a petition hes got started. Partly, we all feel we are losing old friends after all this time but theres so much trash on TV that its no surprise that its loss is so keenly felt. Carenza Lewis, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake and geophys genius John Gater will all be returning and are excited about the new sites. Not everyone takes. Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth on How To See Time In The Landscape. He has since appeared in over two hundred episodes. 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. Shattered. I cannot believe that there will be no more Time Team, I hope the idiots at channel 4 read this site. save. He worked for several commercial units including Oxford Archaeology and MoLAS (as was), until he started a career at L-P Archaeology. 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. During that time he deduced the towns Medieval layout. Information about your device and internet connection, like your IP address, Browsing and search activity while using Yahoo websites and apps. Like Philip Lethbridge I would be happy to watch TT for ever. In a nutshell, that is the most relevant comment I have read on here. The Team had a comradery like that of an elite military unit. Margie, NZ Hopefully, but unlikely, someone will gather the real TT people and give it a rebirth. Hated that they axed Mick Aston and brought in other new people!!! Wouldnt it be lovely if all teams could be like the Time Team? There may be mosaics, a bathhouse and perhaps even temples. Whilst on youtube, also check out dig ventures; another fantastic project with another familiar face. Long-serving archaeologists Helen Geake and Stewart Ainsworth would appear less often. He asks the questions that some people must be sat in front of their TV asking. His passion for digging up relics, come rain or shine, is unparalleled. And key graphic purporting to show the significant shift in building alignments between two phases did not actually do that but simply repeated the original layout! . Piss-up and brewery certainly spring to mind. I have watched and enjoyed Time Team for many years I am one of the oldies watching but my children grandchildren and great grandchildren are all avid viewers I feel the makers of this program had no perception of its impact on different generations when they set out to close the program down. There is such a thing as going on too long with any endeavor, and in watching this series the definition of too long is clear. I often wish you could all come to my back yard 1 acre) and help me find the many many pairs of secateurs buried therein. 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. 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. As is the case with so many entertainment channels, these days the focus is on the younger generation. Were currently watching the last episodes, with the delightfully enthusiastic Francis Pryor, on ABC TV in Melbourne, and we love em, even if there arent always lots of finds. Miss Ochota, 30, holds a masters degree in archaeology and anthropology from Cambridge University. We will suffer forever without the seasonal hours of archaeology, in all its forms. She studied at University College London and University of York, specialising in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. I was so sad to find out that it is finishedCould we bring it back? This biography article of a United Kingdom academic is a stub. As it was said at the start, they had to change it and then when it all went wrong blame someone else. Rip, time team. When did Mick leave time team? You can find her message at https://digventures.com/2013/03/tools-down-for-time-team-raksha-dave-on-the-end-of-an-era-and-her-new-adventure/. May be he could be a Lord? Its always sad when a long running and reputable series ends. I have been in awe of the items the team dig up and the re-constructions. By
I am so sad and gutted Time Team has been axed. People seem to enjoy them. But TIME TEAM managed the impossible. A good friend of mine was a guest archaeologist on several T.T programmes and it was my good fortune to go along on production. 200k an episode? It has taught and shown me so much, I have a wonderful interest in archaeology thanks to this show, and loved hearing and seeing our past. Tony Robinsons role seems to one of a viewer who does not completely understand what is going on although logic says he must have a reasonable knowledge of the subject. Also it being on an increasingly miserable Channel (4) did it no favours whatsoever. Like Paul said (June 23 comment) you wished you could join them in the pub at the end for a beer . (Then, of course, it goes straight to Hell). TT would be ideal on BBC4, which is a very good channel, and it would be great to see a full hour. In 2014. Their participation and enthusiasm clear for all to see. 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. The thing that should be axed is the TV exec that made that decision. 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. I owe a debt of gratitude to the wonderful Time Team ensemble. Even after its star began to wane Time Team remained popular. Please bring back time team I do really miss watch it please please bring it back. The whole catering & accommodation aspect could have been trimmed, without loss of such a wonderful program. We may not see its like again. Stewart Ainsworth also stated: "Time Team has probably been one of the biggest things that has happened to archaeology for many years - to make archaeology and history accessible, and we need to keep that profile going whatever way we can." Bring back Time Team. Pay per view TV? I hope its not the end of Time Team. swinging camera booms. And lets be honest, it doesnt get any better than watching absolutely great British television presented by the all time best supporting TV character, Baldrick. By the way I am 52, so I guess I am too old for channel 4, but tell my kids that. This series is in my opinion (and hubbys) a satisfying end. Time Team Official 133K subscribers Time Team Teatime - Session 28 Wrapping up Black History Month and our exploration of North America's early European colonies, we're staying in St Mary's. Tim Taylor recalls that some archaeologists were initially, quite fairly, a bit sceptical. One aspect that some treated with suspicion was the three-day deadline. 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