The big step-change in output came between series 5 and 6 in 1998 and 1999 when the annual number of episodes leapt from 8 to 13. I met Phil Harding a few years ago at old sarum castle, Salisbury, we had a lovely chat, hes a fab bloke. Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth on How To See Time In The Landscape. if thereis any justice in the world they shoud change there minds.TONY MICK PHIL STEWART JOHN MAT RAKSHA BRIGID CARENZA TO MENTION a few. I have been planning to return for several years now for a holiday and to catch up with friends and relatives. What a lot we learned. 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? I once heard Mr Harding say Oh arr. Lets hope that somebody in control is also a fan and a compromise can be reached. There are some of us who actually enjoy watching interesting, factual, historic programs. I will miss it and them dreadfully. This was the best educational programme that looked forward to every week and also all the repeats that were broadcast on more 4. Thank you channel 4 Thank you very very much . Now I have no reason what ever to watch ch 4 now or in the future . Well it seems the bean counters got their way. Promotion of family values good natured banter and above all a love of the past which TT has shared with us over the years is disposed of Shame, Shame, Shame. 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. 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. The thing that should be axed is the TV exec that made that decision. 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. Last night (17 June 2014), they had a prominent, crude cartoon of a mans sexual equipment inserted into this highly humorous clip. Hopefully, but unlikely, someone will gather the real TT people and give it a rebirth. I liked the pictures Victor did on several shows which showed the principals in historical costumes. Screening 13 episodes a year, as well as live digs and specials the programme was ubiquitous. Although I partly agree with Geoff Stelling regarding both the departure of Mick and sidelining Phil somewhat, I do think that the young archaeologists in this the last series show a great deal of promise (Jimmy, Tracey, Susannah, for example) and we are being unfair to their input to be so critical. Good job I have the internet to log onto. I would echo it completely. It is just so sad to read all of these comments, like a requiem for a friend. And anyway, why would we want Channel 4 to keep TT? Save Time Team Campaign is taking off really fast now, over 1,500 signatures & support from celebrity. I am signing up to the campaign to keep Time Team! I was surfing the internet to obtain correct titles for some episodes that I recorded earlier. I have enjoyed Time Team from day one. Requested by a commissioning editor to wear more colourful clothing Mick turned up in the most garish garment he could find as a joke, only to be told it was perfect. Now everyone knows the word geophys. 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. Just started to watch the latest series on C4, very very sad to be losing it soon. 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. Too bad for the changes they made, these new guys tried hard, but you cant replace what the old team had, the magic, the small things, Still, Im grateful for what they achieved and for what it has meant to me and still does. Poor. It makes me want to poke nyy head in and see the Geophys, operate the diggers to open a trench and pick up a trowel and start digging! Brilliant. So thank you time team I hope someone with a brain brings it back. So thank you TT, you helped rekindle my interest in history and if Id been 40 years younger you would probably have been instrumental in a career change! I lost my job recently due to illness.time team made my days. This is the sort of Programme that would thrive on BBC 2 in conjunction with The Open University. BBCs own channels will have BBC prefixing the number and anything not by the BBC will obviously by without this prefix. It seems there was no need for one before Womens Studies and all those other nonwhite studies. How will I live? Maybe the TT should be recalled for a one off programme and instead of digging things up they could bury the CH 4 production managers and all forthcoming rubbish they plan to screen, My wife is very upset about the end of Time Team she adds its like losing and old friend Please Please channel 4 its not to late to change your mind. Usually clad in a loud jumper, with his white hair blowing in the wind, Professor Aston was the shows site director who chose where to dig for the next historical discovery. I download everything I can from the internet and watch on American PBS stations when I can find it. Taylor says, It would have been great to show Basil Brown the new technology, which enables us to see 3D images of the archaeology underground, allowing us to precisely target our excavation., Taylor continues: This dig signals the start of a fascinating new chapter for Time Team. But archaeologist Mick Aston has walked out of Time Team after 19 years after producers hired a former model as the programmes co-presenter. ! They included a new presenter to join Tony Robinson and decisions to drop some archaeologists and cut down the informative stuff about the archaeology. 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. Have just watched the very last episode of my beloved Time Team And feel desperately sad.. Alan Gale is 100% correct. I was surfing the internet to obtain correct titles for some episodes that I recorded earlier. 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. Just watched the first instalment of Time Team America (H2,Thursdays,9pm). SAVE TIME TEAM, Closing in on 4,000 signatures already: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html, Hey guys just a quick update of a Article we have got up promoting the SAVE TIME TEAM Campaign. Best wishes, good luck and Gods speed to the lot of you! Ive loved all of them (apart from the guy who placed the stones/coins/sword on his land deliberately) but that wasnt Time Teams fault and they did prove they couldnt be taken in. Shots of him in woodland seeking out raw materials for a reconstructed axe allowed the audience to witness the hands-on practical process. With 1.5 million views a month on the Time Team Classics YouTube channel in 41 countries worldwide, the new programs will premiere on YouTube, with additional behind-the-scenes content on the platform Patreon. The main loss will be the delight we have got shouting bullshit-ware at the screen as Paul Blinkhorn announces a small lump of stone is in reality early Anglo Saxon teaset. So disappointed to hear the show has been axed. History is a fascinating subject but I agree .I have thoroughly enjoyed Time Team and was greatly disappointed when I switched on my TV at the usual time and found no sign of Time Team at that time or any other. Poor second best but something is better than nothing. Please bring it back with all the original cast the new ones where good but I preferred the old cast and format. But maybe it is time and we need to move on. I will miss TT more than any other show I have ever watched and Im extremely disappointed that C4 have decided to axe a show that brought History into the hearts of so many people. Ive got to say I think he handled the shows well. 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. Time Team excavations at Binchesters Roman fort also helped kickstart a research project that is still in rude health (see CA 263). I want Time Team brought back. I used to go into a hole with a size 9 shovel and spent nearly 33 years digging around obstacles like gas, electric, sewers, to name a few and I can assure you that I did not have the patience of some of this team. (Cardiff hillfort). It was responsible for me going on a dig and having a great time. I started looking to find more information about the history of Henham park & was so sad to see the show has been axed. This so Heartbreaking. Long-serving archaeologists Helen Geake and Stewart Ainsworth would appear less often. A known anthropologist and archeologist ( Emmanuel College, Cambridge ), to describe and dismiss her as a former model is a bit unfair. 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! document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a3c3c528f5d4ab9be4dd73fd43d71409" );document.getElementById("ac59ec51d8").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Latest news from our sister site, the-past.com. Its all happening ere Tony. Surely this cant really be the end?? Im 77 and was taught English history at boarding school, but Time Team has made it come alive and with so much meaning. 2017, My husband and I decided to get rid of our tv when we had 2 young sons. All the best shows are taken off and all we are left with is the boring and so untrue Archers. It is to the Channels credit that it did this despite much of that outlay being channelled into post-excavation work that never appeared onscreen. Good riddance to Time Team; patronising in the extreme, and as for that prat Robinson leaping about a la Baldrick, reduced the entire thing to music hall. Without time team on the television the world of tv is going to be a poorer place. Thank you all for giving us years of delight and thank God for DVDs. 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 always look forward to it when I get chance and to know that it is finishing is both shocking and disappointing. This series is in my opinion (and hubbys) a satisfying end. I have watched this program over the life of its showing and as a saturday morning archaeologist I was challenged to dig deeper (pun intended) by reading more into the theory and practice of archaeology. Many of my friends would love to travel to the UK because of shows like Time Team and Escape to the country. I am a mega fan of the show. Is this why some of the Adverts are much better than most of the currant programmes. Time Team: Created by Tim Taylor. Not that I want to live there though am quite happy to be an Australian. The worst thing they did was sex it up. 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. Robinson has been a superb presenter and long may he continue on historical based series . C4 has descended to abysmal levels. My eldest son is now 19 and guess what he is studying at University (say no more) thank you Time Team. Its December 2016, My Hubby and I live in Queensland Australia,we have Foxtel and have the old shows on a series link and never get tired of watching the Time Team. maybe someone will dig you out of the tombs of c4 in time. It is the ONLY program I think worth watching in all the rubbish put on these days ! Can anyone help us with the contact? Keep the show going its fantastic Ive been watching it as long as I can remember Time Team brought so much into my life, being bed ridden, television being a large part of my life now. Years earlier, Sir Mortimer Wheeler did some Archaeology pgms on TV and they were always popular. I am 81 & have watched & enjoyed TT for many years. They cant bring it back. When I signed there were 1,600 names. Sunday afternoons will never be the same, a wonderful programme. I am wondering how many viewers watch the Time Team now. I watched every show, every season, and I never noticed that Tony had an obsession with Romans. Thank you to everyone who made this such a wonderful programme. Real shame, feels like Ive lost my friends! Only problem is the core members are getting on a bit, so no chance of it going another 20 years. Here we chart the highs and lows of a revolutionary format that aimed to bring archaeology to the people. Mary Ann Ochota qualified or not added nothing substantive unless the viewer was starved for gratuitous cleavage shots and huge white beaverish teeth. Information about your device and internet connection, like your IP address, Browsing and search activity while using Yahoo websites and apps. The beginnings of Time Team: season 1 stalwarts (from left to right) Mick Aston, Victor Ambrus, Phil Harding, Geraldine Barber, Carenza Lewis, Tony Robinson, and Robin Bush. Bravo to your remaks. I found her to be frightening and tedious at the same time, and to this day I fast forward through the segments where she is featured. It is hardly surprising that I rarely watch TV these days apart from repeats of old favourites thank goodness we still have 20 years worth of repeats. Leave it to an insular management team to screw it up. Time Team has left a legacy that few TV programs can match and im sure that generations to come will enjoy. After graduation she did some modelling, including shoots for Special K. She was the anthropologist on the BBCs Castaway Exposed and has presented a number of other programmes using her expertise. 7 comments. May be he could be a Lord? 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. Mick, can I come work for you? The programmes were sometimes slight and of course a three day dig is only a sketch rather than a full canvass, but Time Team enriched my life. We are a large audience. Headed by D Macall. Its put me very on edge not to know where Im up to and I think Channel 4 should be funding my medication for hypertension, blurred vision (tears I think) and severe withdrawal already before its ended. When he took this pitch to various studios, however, no one wanted to know. I loved the banter between Tony, Phil and Mick and anyone could see they enjoyed their jobs. Reason: we hardly spoke to each other and what we were watching on tv was hardly worthwhile. 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. 03:12 EST 08 Feb 2012. . Give it back all the back room staff and put new life into it , a great progame killed off for no reason , Len. I share your sentiments totally. I do not think that the British tourism board and channel 4 realize how much interest world wide their is in British history. (and its cost increases). I didnt always like the reenactments but it was interesting when they dealt with diet and medical issues. And really, TT changed my life! I first came across it a few years back while channel surfing Hey I know him thats Baldrick. Envisioned as a quiz show in the vein of Challenge Anneka running on BBC 1 from 1989 to 1995 the team were called on to solve archaeological mysteries while racing against the clock. I agree the lady they brought in for Series 19 was disappointing and that it does show how far C4 has come in the last 20 years. age is no barrier in archaeology and many of us dont start until our 40s and 50s. Was it one persons requirements that brought extras into the show, persons not wanted nor needed, also not as talented as a walnut. Closed minds achieve nothing in life. Is Phil Harding a Phd? Southern Gaulish Samian ware, or Green Glaze, 14th Century. Observing how so many, different, recondite specialty fields come together paleopalynography. The implementation of Planning Policy Guidance 16 in 1990 enshrined archaeology within the development process and paved the way for todays professional units. I used to tape the shows & send the tapes to my sister in Winnipeg who enjoyed them as much as as we did Phil & Tony were our Favourites . And there is much yet to dig and poke at historically in the world, let alone Great Britain. We do have money too you know. Meet the Ancestors was also a good programme we need more Archaelogy programmes on TV. As Mick Aston observed the geophys and Time Team have always gone hand in hand. What about the number of times they were wrong? Chronicle. I guess I will have to plan a trip to the UK to get my archaeology fix now. I am totally gutted to learn of the demise of TT. Thank goodness there is a myriad of viewers who appreciate the achievement of Time Team. 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. Most days, I have been watching the TT repeats on More Four in the afternoons. My grandson is a budding archeologist and watches it over and over again. What lies under the ground of the countrys past. Who is Mary Ann & what does she bring to the table? I so agree. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. In 2005, Carenza Lewis left to pursue other interests. A political gesture aimed at building up regional television, Time Team was picked because it seemed a safe pair of hands. Please bring together the old team Mick, Phil, Carenza, John, Francis and Stewart. Brought up 3 kids on it. As of 2010 Ainsworth has been affiliated with the History and Archaeology department at the University of Chester, where he is a visiting professor. Very sorry to see Time Team being finished. Lytham St Annes. Not everyone takes. Instead John Gater, the programmes geophys wizard (see CA 252), surveyed the field. I loved watching Time Team in Australia, way better than the American version. Yes TR can be intensely irritating at times, but as the years have gone by I think his appreciation of the experts has increased and they have learned skills from him about presentation. He said: We were very sorry to see Mick go, and he leaves an extraordinary legacy. Admittedly, in the last year or so I have found myself increasingly disinterested in the programme. Many episode are available free on veehd.com. I am! Time Team has sometimes been accused of peddling stereotypes to the public, but anyone who has met the archaeologists will know that they are not cynical media-savvy operators adopting false personas for the camera. I am sooooo sorry the series is over. How many people can look back on a twenty years span of such a masterful contribution to human culture? Stranger things have happened! Even after its star began to wane Time Team remained popular. Well said, Paul! Self (as Prof. Stewart Ainsworth) Show all 219 episodes 1998 Time Team Extras (TV Series documentary) Self - High Worsall, North Yorkshire (1998) . The same has been witnessed with the BBC. Found Time Team on You Tube. I made this ages ago and thought someone here MIGHT like it? With Tony Robinson, Stewart Ainsworth, Victor Ambrus, Mick Aston. 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. Oh! Mick, Tony Phil, Carenza Lewis, etc bring it back as there are no current programs that come close. This is no good for those at work or school. Little surprise she became a history teacher. The writing was on the wall when it regularly began featuring cleavage shots of diggers and the dreaded re-enactments. After reading, in his youth, a book about Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, and visiting the Tower of London, he formed an interest in the history of landscapes.[2]. Long gone are the back garden digs. The foregoing is an exhausting but entertaining read. Its amazing. Quod erat demonstrandum. Archaeologists from Wessex Archaeology, working in advance of HS2 construction, have been excavating the site for the past three years. It feels very sad that I shant do that. VALE Time Team, a wonderful Viking/ Roman pyre is burning and we are drinking ourselves to oblivion. What proved to be the fateful conversation took place in a Little Chef on the Okehampton bypass. After university, he worked as Somerset's first County Archaeologist before returning to university as a lecturer. They seem to have replaced alot of the original cast for more easy on the eye team members, the new historian was a prime example. 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