Pay per view TV? It feels very sad that I shant do that. Perhaps the BBC could take over where Channel 4 has failed and get back to grass roots like in series 4-6. Can anyone help us with the contact? 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. 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. The old team are the best Mick, Phil, Tony et al.. think Channel 4 have made a HUGE mistake bet they wont listen to the public.. 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. Thats fairly unusual.. He said: We were very sorry to see Mick go, and he leaves an extraordinary legacy. Posted by 27 days ago. It may be in fifteen or so years a new Time Team will go digging in the archives of the defunct Channel 4 to explain how with the audience Channel 4 had for an entertaining and informative programme Which bright go ahead executive (IDIOT) came up with the Idea, if its not broken we must fix it. I enjoyed the later seasons in HD quality quite a lot, and I wish they would keep going for 20 more years. In fact, I actually struggle to watch any anyway, as I made clear at the beginning the post production is irritating. Here in NZ we are only now starting Series 19,in Bitterly, at present. Southern Gaulish Samian ware, or Green Glaze, 14th Century. Observing how so many, different, recondite specialty fields come together paleopalynography. I therefore conclude that the program is enjoyed by audiences of all ages. Also, the most recent posters may not have heard of Mick Astons premature death. TT was an utter revelation. What happened to Stewart Ainsworth? Desperate for a good documentary to watch over a late dinner, I discovered Tony Robinsons Time Team special on the Mesolithic and Doggerland. Immediately, I was hooked. While viewing it might be a bittersweet experience we should enjoy the moment while we can. The above link is a petition which was put together by Lee Brady. The implementation of Planning Policy Guidance 16 in 1990 enshrined archaeology within the development process and paved the way for todays professional units. Thanks to you all. One of the best programs EVER. Gutted! It presented an intellectually enjoyable show to the many mature aged citizens of planet Earth and COULD continue to do so if someone with an gram of sense would realise that this show still has enormous appeal for the right demographic. I am thrilled that TT is returning in 2022, but saddened that Phil, Raksha and Tony will not be participating. 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. 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. That they were able to achieve what very few others were able to achieve and give a thirst to the man-in-the-street in what could be classed as a dry subject only adds weight to what they were able to achieve in such a fantastic way. Their ethos has been propagated through the educational system and I feel that its still there (though fading) Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth on How To See Time In The Landscape. thank god for the repeats. Much has been said about this show on this site but I think that all of you would be best served by reading what Raksha had to say. Leave it to an insular management team to screw it up. & has never been more pi**ed off 2 here that its being Last night (17 June 2014), they had a prominent, crude cartoon of a mans sexual equipment inserted into this highly humorous clip. His presentation throughout all of the series, which I have almost finished running though for the second time, is stellar. quite a lot of the programmes are available on Veehd.com. Great memories sadly missed. RESURRECT THE PAST! Probably just as well this is the last series, but as many have suggested, a move to BB4 sounds a great idea. T.T. 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? Try Dig Ventures, an online crowd-funded Archaeology site. I am Canadian-born but living near Atlanta, Geogia, and travel to the UK often. 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. As well as an arresting demonstration of the power of teamwork, Athelney showed how geophysics could be the heart of the programme. I KNOW i keep on saying it but i cannot get my head around channel 4 is getting rid off such a great programme it is seen all over the world. If you had to justify the value of television as a medium that can inform as well as entertain, Time Team would be the perfect example. Long-serving archaeologists Helen Geake and Stewart Ainsworth would appear less often. But would be top stuff if BBC 4 could pick it up and get things back on track. Thank goodness for DVDs of past episodes. Maybe it was better to end the show before they replaced the entire cast with celebrities from TOWIE. http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html. There is a huge following in Australia and after the debacle with the producers bringing in you know who as a co-presenter (of cleavage), the show started its slow path to division. WHY? 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. 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. 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. It will be sorely missed. Anyone who visited one of their digs while shooting was underway will have seen the devotion it inspired in members of the public. The programs were never the same when Mick wasnt on. Tim Taylor devised the name Time Team, and in 1992 a pilot episode was filmed in Dorchester-on-Thames. Not all of us want mindless reality TV that costs a few bob to present. Wasnt TT the only reason to watch Channel 4 ? IT DID NOT NEED JAZZING UP. Time team is currently repeated on more-4 each midweek day and sometimes Saturdays, but I still miss fresh episodes and the original presenters and everyone should put pressure on c4 for more episodes even if it were one a month ! very sad day in T V HISTORY. Its prototype was Timesigns, a four-part series that aired in 1991. Well said, Paul! People like myself really appreciate history coming to life as Time Team presented it. Its amazing. 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. I am a 57 year old Aussie and I watched this program every episode I could see. It is just so sad to read all of these comments, like a requiem for a friend. 2023 CURRENT PUBLISHING LTD - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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. It was the highlight of my life ! For years I had little interest in any of it but as time went by this programme made me interested. hide. YOU HAVE JUST NOT THOUGHT THIS THROUGH! Like others I have loved TT right from the start and have always enjoyed it. 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. | 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. 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. For me Time Team was a cultural oasis in a desert of dumb and lazy TV. of Tonys and Phils hair. The Isle of Mull episode in season 17 is a great example of what could be discovered. Oh well, TV is doomed. Always worked so hard and made sense of sites that could have remained a mystery. You were apparently watching a different show than we were. With its awkwardly embarassing reality programming and multitude of dream come true talent shows American television is NOTHING to emulate. 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. C4 what are you doing timeteam is a great show now u r going to put more rubbish on like big brother I know it not on your channel no more what a shame timeteam will b missed go on bbc take it on, Timeteam what a great show now we got to put up with shows like splash and x factor what is going on with tv now god help. What a bore YOU are! just found TT on Acorn streaming. A brief history of Time Team Time Team 's genesis is a well-rehearsed story. DREADFUL ! How amazing to see the history of England being unearthed. I wish that ABC in Aus would start at the beginning and replay them all. 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. Please bring back Time Team with Tony Robinson. What idiot made this particular decision to cancel such an interesting and educational series! x. Condolences to Micks family, his friends and his colleagues. I really didnt like that nasty dendrochronologist who wouldnt show his results though idiot! It is always the same, if it works change it, No offense Lizbeth, I really like Tony, but I still think my observation is accurate. Archaeology enthusiast from Europe and the United States have long discovered the series. I feel sure we havent heard the last either. 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. It is the programme really. I have not been watching the show for very long because it was not aired in the US as far as I know. Channel 4 manages to produce some really rubbish reality programmes to titivate the youthful masses it hopes to attract. Tony Robinson is proud of the programmes success in making archaeology accessible. A few days later news of Time Teams demise broke in the Guardian. I lost my job recently due to illness.time team made my days. That a pile of random rubble is a wall, a stain in the ground is a ditch and Tony Robinson is a supercilious pot bellied bore. I am watching repeats on Yesterday but hate the constant adverts. Time Team you have inspired so many people .THANK YOU. Possibly my favourite television programme. Was it her sultry beauty, or easy going attitude that rubs some the wrong way ? Yes, speak for yourself! It was an intelligent, thought provoking, and entertaining program. We have several equally exciting sites lined up that we hope to investigate with support from our fans on Patreon., Already Patreon supporters have rallied behind another fantastic site a mysterious Iron Age settlement with underground passages in Cornwall. The new series is getting nearer to the original format, I think, except for the one featuring the soldiers, which, dare I say it and risk castigation (?) The more TV appeal execs tried to inject, the less people wanted to watch. I am American and Time Team is my favorite program. Archaeologists from Wessex Archaeology, working in advance of HS2 construction, have been excavating the site for the past three years. It would be nice if Channel 4 admitted its error and reinstated Time Team in its proper format. We now need a new champion of archaeology at a time when budget cuts in public service have resulted in the shedding of many jobs in the profession and the threats from a new phase of building construction looming large. When I get a chance I watch the repeats on More 4. 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. Who was the idiot that canceled it??? 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. Time Team To Be Reinstated! By 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. With Phil Harding also on board, three members of the future Time Team core were in place. I love watching the old episodes, the ones where there was fantastic camaraderie between the team, excellent and atmospheric music in the background which always complemented the era of the dig and the extravagant clothing worn by the team. This so Heartbreaking. It was responsible for me going on a dig and having a great time. Totally gutted Time Team is going. This biographical article related to British television is a stub. I cannot believe that there will be no more Time Team, I hope the idiots at channel 4 read this site. A few years earlier Tony Robinson had joined a trip Mick was leading to Santorini as part of his adult education work for Bristol University. Unlike many here, I think Mary Anne Ochota was a qualified addition to evolve and maintain the momentum of the series. The regular team also included: [6] Stewart Ainsworth, landscape investigator; John Gater and Chris Gaffney, archaeological geophysicists; Henry Chapman, surveyor; and Victor Ambrus, illustrator . 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. Yes very sorry to see TT go, Sky at night still going both are just as important to us here on Earth and I think it will be missed in the future though the recordings are still available to evertbody but the forum is lost, Grrrr channel 4. He joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (now part of English Heritage) in 1985, and was its Landscape Investigation Team based in York, England. I loved it and speaking as an Hibernian, the only thing I found mildly irritating was Tonys obsession with all things Roman. Filmed at Athelney, site of Alfred the Greats apocraphal burnt cakes, the site was scheduled, precluding excavation. Was it one persons requirements that brought extras into the show, persons not wanted nor needed, also not as talented as a walnut. 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. Good bye Mick. Axing time team is a huge mistake. Ive enjoyed watching all the archeologists old and new & think Tony Robinson is a great presenter. report. Crazy. He is 10. Time team has been a part of tv watching since its beginning . 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. I started looking to find more information about the history of Henham park & was so sad to see the show has been axed. What on earth is going on and who is in charge of these moronic decisions! I have watched Time Team for years as has my son and many many friends. Fabulous, thank you. Headed by D Macall. I watch any that come on now.. saw one yesterday about the digging our of the 2 world war planes in the bogs.. Will miss the team, at least we have more 4. Perhaps if Chanel 4 had stuck to the old adage of if it aint broke, dont fix it we would still have had this gem of a program to look forward to enjoying for many years to come.. with shows like Strictly Come Dancing, X Factor, Dancing on Ice, Big Brother etc etc etc all being aired every week, Time Team was an oasis of entertainment and education in a vast desert of mundane TV programming. 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. TV is a wasteland and TT was an oasis in it. Now everyone knows the word geophys. 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. There is a petition already, on Facebook, which is not the ideal place. Team Team gang were so funny with their understanding of each other and professional approach to their subject, their knowledge of it all and portrayal to the audience was so entertaining, and Tony added an open view to a usually flat subject, with his level headed approach to academics and gave it life. All the members of the team are keen to promote archaeology, I once witnessed Phil Harding rushing from trench to trench when TT were in York, stopping, turning off his radio and spending time talking to some enthusiastic kids about what he was doing, how he was doing it and why, the kids were transfixed by his enthusiasm, his ability to communicate his subject at many different levels being an inspiring sight. My parents watch it. This is true Reallity Television. This photograph was taken at a recent catch-up with some of the Team: John Gater, Helen Geake, Carenza Lewis, Tim Taylor, Dani Wootton, Jim Mower, and Stewart Ainsworth, all of whom are . I hope more episodes are made available on video! The foregoing is an exhausting but entertaining read. I agree with the above sentiments, get the brilliant crew back. certainly helped to fill a lot of university places, even if many of those gaining degrees have gone on to other careers. I love time team because it is filled with such enthusiasm and love for its subject. Screening 13 episodes a year, as well as live digs and specials the programme was ubiquitous. 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). To anyone who loves the Sunday afternoon history fix as much as I do PLEASE sign! I was digging my veg patch yesterday and I found a napped piece of flint. An audience study in 2006 indicated that 20 million people watched at least one show that year. We, Yahoo, are part of the Yahoo family of brands. I am looking forward to the Village Dig series, when it eventually comes to the small screen. Many bad decisions for all the wrong reasons. 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! Good quality programmes do cost a little extra.Have watched the programme from the start and my 6 year old daughter did also and was entertained by TRs presentation, she can still imitate that enthusiastic burst of speed across a field whilst talking to camera. and the entire bunch breathed fresh life into the sometimes boring subject of Archaeology. But maybe it is time and we need to move on. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the digs and finds discovered by the crew. 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. Thank you to all of Time Team for 20 wonderful years. Channel 4 should never have discarded such a treasure. 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. 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. Refreshing to see non-Brits find our history/heritage of great interest. The team are irreplaceable, such a huge whole left in life once the program ended. Fortunately, it wasnt. But the professor, 65, said that changes to the programme which have led to the introduction of co-presenter Mary-Ann Ochota and the dropping of some archaeologists had left him really angry. 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