Jim Mower (development producer, see his opinion piece here) believes that Phil Hardings material was among the most innovative. If ever there is a petition to bring this back, count me in. My husband said I bet you want to get Phill round now. John has kept on top of technical advances, and the results of his survey of Brancaster Roman fort provide one of the outstanding moments in the forthcoming season 20. I will have to content myself with watching the 4OD repeats for ever now. Perhaps if TT had included a Big Brother style segment of drunken, debauched university students or only dug up the gardens of minor celebrity reality tv show contestants theyd still be on the air. 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. 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!) Instead Time Teams format was radically overhauled. I have told so many people about Time Team & my grand daughter has been trying to decide should she be an archaeologist or a geologist because of it. Bravo to your remaks. Tony Robinson is proud of the programmes success in making archaeology accessible. This is just swell. What a great detective. Time team is irreplaceable. 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. I know we have no Roman history, but there are thousands of of places that date back thousands of years. We, Yahoo, are part of the Yahoo family of brands. So sad to hear that it came to an end. 200k an episode? The onscreen introduction of team members and their specialist skills was a hangover from a time when participants would have varied from week to week, rather than coalescing into a core group. 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 god for the repeats. Im not proud of Time Team, it hasnt worked.. The thrill of time running out also engaged viewers, and Time Teams popularity was rewarded with increasingly longer series. My absolute favorite TV program! 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. I would be very interested in acquiring DVDs of the whole series to watch at my leaisure. Very sorry to see Time Team being finished. This was a fresh ongoing series with a warm and positive vibe, an interesting treat on TV. I hope that someone has the sense to resorect TT even if it is repeated from the beginning. In the country you have more sense of the spirit of a place. A former academic at Bristol and Oxford universities, he has worked tirelessly to bring archaeology to a wider audience. I always look forward to it when I get chance and to know that it is finishing is both shocking and disappointing. With Phil Harding also on board, three members of the future Time Team core were in place. I agree with you . Changing all the staff behind Time Team was a big mistake, but ending it is even bigger. He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. Tags:
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. 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. He asks the questions that some people must be sat in front of their TV asking. Eat umble pie you are having a laff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRe_gMtXNo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Time_Team_episodes, I Have Fallen In Love With Land Rover Freelander! What am I going to do now knowing there isnt an unending stream of new TTs to feed my addiction? I was sad to see Carenza leave and sad to hear of the death of Robin Bush. I have loved Time Team for years and wish that there were not so many bone heads in Channel 4. Their participation and enthusiasm clear for all to see. People came and went, such as my favourite Robin Bush, but those two remained, as did their stamina and zeal for the show. I want to salute everyone involved in this show! 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. I am a 57 year old Aussie and I watched this program every episode I could see. Bring them back ! Have a look again at the programme where Phils DNA results come in and watch Tonys reaction. If Id been younger when the programme first started I would have loved to have studied archaeology to work in such a fascinating area, I had little knowledge of or interest in archaeology before. Self - Deya, Mallorca, Spain (1998) . We are saddened to hear that a great T.V show which entertained and informed is being axed. RIP Time Team. But its also the fact that they didnt just impart accumulated knowledge, they made new discoveries as we watched. Thank goodness for DVDs of past episodes. I loved it and speaking as an Hibernian, the only thing I found mildly irritating was Tonys obsession with all things Roman. Whichever fool(s) cut it, perhaps they are now also, goneso please bring Time Team back it was a great staple! Poor. 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. Hated that glamour woman simply the wrong feel.. Very, very sorry that management mis-handling killed it. Also it being on an increasingly miserable Channel (4) did it no favours whatsoever. The cast and crew were pretty obviously seriously digging their roles, (bad pun semi-intended sorry about that sort of). All the best shows are taken off and all we are left with is the boring and so untrue Archers. It is the ONLY program I think worth watching in all the rubbish put on these days ! I love a list and now I can tick off which ones Ive seen in a suitably anal fashion. I am watching as many of the daily episodes as I can on New Zealands History Channel.It makes me nostalgic for the British history and archeological sites. Refreshing to see non-Brits find our history/heritage of great interest. TT has inspired me to take up the challenge of retraining at the age of 67 for a second career in Heritage and Museum studies. He trained as a surveyor before entering the archaeology section of the Ordnance Survey. I have always wondered what happens to all the dirt that the Time Team dig out of their sites after the 3 days of digging? She was replaced by Helen Geake, Anglo-Saxon specialist. He completed his undergraduate and Master's degrees at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London before embarking on a career in commercial archaeology. When did Mick leave time team? Ok BBC4, its time for you to take Time Team. And a pint or 2 as well, EUTOPIA. I have offten mention to my husband, I wonder what the site look like after the the TT have left. While I mourn the loss of Time Team, I think its death is a natural, organic thing that was simply going to happen sooner or later. Even after its star began to wane Time Team remained popular. I enjoy his style of presentation. Hmm, lets take a show that works, tinker with it, decide the audience is wrong, treat the intelligent people in the cast and crew with disdain and see what happens. Great work mate, youre a champion. Thanks Julia and Lizbeth. The team are irreplaceable, such a huge whole left in life once the program ended. It was broadcast over TVO Toronto Canada. Give it back all the back room staff and put new life into it , a great progame killed off for no reason , Len. A terrible loss to the worlds of broadcasting and archaeology alike, with luck a pheonix will rise from the ashes. I agree. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Stewart Ainsworth is Time Team's Landscape Archaeologist. Victor is a great artist and bought sites to life. 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. What will Ch4 spend its money on now, even more American imports? archaeology..is what my 11 year old gran daughter is looking into training for..shows like these are needed more. Not a Tony Robinson fan myself but he is part of the show. That executive was not recruited from the intellectual highbrow Channel 5 was he? It was my highlight of the week especially now i am disabled and dont leave the house very often. 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. We always joke about that, but I think its indicative of how people understand archaeology is a process. I ask other time team regulars get writing and see if time team can be saved either by another tv station or a rethink by channel 4. And we have just recently lost Mick Aston, the Rock of Gibraltar of the show. tony and all made history come to life to the public and we {as a family] looked forward to the one great programme aweek but know more,,,,how old are the producers ,if they watched t t perhapes they could learn that life does not always mean MONEY MORE MONEY , What a bummer! He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. 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. There is a petition already, on Facebook, which is not the ideal place. while the Facebook page is slowly building! I will miss time team I have watch all the series since it start (But not, ever, I would agree, grinning totty!) 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. 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. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the digs and finds discovered by the crew. Thank you Time Team for all those wonderful hours of thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. Shows that actually ADD something GOOD to the mix. My own favourite was Stuart, to see him on his bike or wandering around looking at the landscape with his ability to fit any site into its landscape. Time Team you have inspired so many people .THANK YOU. DigNation 20 tickets are now on sale: https://digventures.com/projects/dignation-2020/ Can archaeologist see time depth, just by looking? Expertise honed over 15 years was lost at a stroke, to be replaced by crew and production staff who knew neither each other nor archaeology. I thought the programmes inspiring and my grief was genuine at its loss of experts like Mick Aston and the programmes ending.The occasional sighting of a long lost member like Carenza Lewis in a published Report makes me wish for the experience as it unfolded once again. It was one of the most brilliant Programmes ever on TV. As it was said at the start, they had to change it and then when it all went wrong blame someone else. along with Mick Aston, Robin Bush & Beric Morley. I never had any interest in my UK ancestors heritage and the conditions they must have endured until I watched the team in action. The UK is lucky that it has such a long history. Perhaps the question should be not what went wrong with Time Team, but what went wrong with Channel 4. The dig has only found old bits of pipe and 1950s china, but it really does not matter, what matters is the program has inspired my children. People seem to enjoy them. And I really enjoy watching TV & life not the same as early 1990s but I think the format is still sound (just dont turn it into on old OU prog). I loved every member of the cast and crew. When Time Team came along, I got absolutely hooked on it. 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. Series Producer and creator of Time Team, Tim Taylor says . Inever felt patronised and loved the interation beteen Tony, Phil and Mick. I started looking to find more information about the history of Henham park & was so sad to see the show has been axed. I started watching TT in 1998 (2 years after leaving school) and it showed that history can be not only interesting but also fun. Time team came back as a clear favourite, so for one of the national conferences we decided to contact Time Team so that Tony or one of the team could come along and give a talk. Watching the archaeologists and seeing their enthusiasm at even the smallest find,is to me infectious. 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. And to lose Mick Aston well, that was it for us. So my husband looked for more info. I am off to channel four to ask them what is wrong with audiences that are over 40, 50 or even 60, what is wrong with older peoples programmes? I just can not believe we will not see his fabulous jumpers again.. ( except in repeats of course ). Tony admitted a number of times that he is not an archeologist. Channel 4s choices are definitely a bit strange to many of us. If those of us who have never met him mourn today, how much more must his friends and family be feeling his passing? 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. Its all happening ere Tony. It was an opening into a different world that gave me hope that THIS one can be sorted out ! I love time team because it is filled with such enthusiasm and love for its subject. One of our students is well into his 70s, hes been in the field with us both on our formal field school and in a volunteering capacity. Charlies comments would carry more weight if the spelling was correct. C4 have put money into British Archaeology, when no one else could or would presumably, and as has been pointed out, much of that money went into post excavation work, which although not good TV is absolutely vital as far as each site is concerned. Always will be in my heart! Have to admit they are probably the main reason I now spend a lot of my spare time out on the Thames foreshore with the Thames Discovery Programme- enjoying it hugely, and probably have them to thank, they showed us that anyone can get involved. just found TT on Acorn streaming. The team was supplemented by experts appropriate for the period and type of site. Such a shame a beautiful show as this is axed and they show such dribble as reality tv shows blah yuk. I will miss it & Sunday afternoons will not be the same-Im all for a petition -there arent many programs on now that are educational & family viewing with no risk whatsoever of offending anyone, there are too many reality programs these days & that seems to be what the young people are watching. We may not see its like again. Time Team return, Time Team is coming back, Following the successful launch of a fan-led Patreon campaign in December, Time Team has now confirmed what could be the first of many digs. With Tony Robinson, Phil Harding, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth. If Channel 4 wish to cancel TT why not take it to another channel If jonathon Ross, Parky and Graham Norton can do it why not TT, No more Phil! (Then, of course, it goes straight to Hell). We cannot wait to share this magic with you! The same has been witnessed with the BBC. Still, we liked to watch something online every now and than rather than read a book, play a game or just talk to each other and thats when my husband showed me the first episodes of Time Team, which he remember from his youth. Stewart surveys, records and investigates archaeological sites. Like others I would like to see somebody else either bringing it back or developing the format. I learn so much. My wife Ida & I never missed a program for years. 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. His Uncle, my brother, has to dig up a dig with him when he comes on holiday and he is in there like a professional. Sadly,she passed away 2 years ago but before she went, she told me not to forget to watch TT. Lee, viewer outrage worked in Australia with The Movie Show. Meet the Ancestors was also a good programme we need more Archaelogy programmes on TV. 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