Sad Time Team series being finished. As an amateur digger, I envied TTs resources a JCB on call, geophysics, dendrochronology, C14 dating, DNA analysis. There may be mosaics, a bathhouse and perhaps even temples. 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. Toni Victoria australia. axed is their a petition running ????? I know we have no Roman history, but there are thousands of of places that date back thousands of years. And the journey is not quite over yet. I made this ages ago and thought someone here MIGHT like it? IT DID NOT NEED JAZZING UP. I saw the same program, Justin, and I agree entirely! VALE Time Team, a wonderful Viking/ Roman pyre is burning and we are drinking ourselves to oblivion. Yes, we all love the longtime archaelogists (sorry, cant do stars I would say they wouldnt like it either it is rather derogatory of their abilities!) Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth on How To See Time In The Landscape. 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. Time team has been a part of tv watching since its beginning . 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 to everyone who made this such a wonderful programme. Surely this cant really be the end?? Yet despite bringing the past to life using the familiar ingredients of excavation, landscape survey and reconstructions including Phil felling a tree with a flint axe Timesigns is a very different beast. Her role, as a foil to Sir Tony, was complimentary, and never as an expert. I love time team because it is filled with such enthusiasm and love for its subject. I download everything I can from the internet and watch on American PBS stations when I can find it. Mary-Ann Ochota caused the Time Teams slow demise as she and the behind the scene executives strangled a Team that had worked played and laughed together over so many years making not good but great viewing. But would be top stuff if BBC 4 could pick it up and get things back on track. 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. The time team has brought history, archaeology, geophys and a devoted team of professionals into my life. Really gutted TT has finished, and shame on Channel 4 for this decision! I have offten mention to my husband, I wonder what the site look like after the the TT have left. It was supposed to be about archaeology. I am a mega fan of the show. I dread to think just where the Television industry is looking for its viewers In the Night Garden. Its our favoite show. I dont think I could stand watching Phils grotty hat for one more season. 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 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? Time Team was on television, but not of it. I will miss time team I have watch all the series since it start A terrible mistake in the cancellation of Time Team one the most educational series on T V I and my friend in Canada cant wait each Monday evening to watch the show we both being amateur Archaeologists and worked for many years with the Ontario Archaeology Soc and find the show captivating and extremely educational and will be sorry to see it end. It is located on the Broughton Estate in Oxfordshire, belonging to the Fiennes family. Mick the Dig joined Time Team early on as our resident excavation supervisor and was personally responsible for Time Team's biggest ever hole - at Blaenavon, Wales (an honour that looks unlikely to be beaten any time soon!). 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 .. Give it back all the back room staff and put new life into it , a great progame killed off for no reason , Len. Joining you at your virtual pyre and raising a glass to Mick Aston! I just can not believe we will not see his fabulous jumpers again.. ( except in repeats of course ). Stick to Postman Pat, Time Team is too intellectual for you. RIP Time Team. He should have stuck to presenting instead of trying to take command. 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. And now our children and grandchildren watch the programme but not for long now. Such a great programme. So, Ch4 why did you do away with this gem of a program? As well as an arresting demonstration of the power of teamwork, Athelney showed how geophysics could be the heart of the programme. I absolutely agree with everything you said ! I completely agree with you Lauren. Leave it to an insular management team to screw it up. 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. Perhaps one of the other channels will see the folly of C4s ways and pick up the program before its too late? 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. True, Tony Robinson did tend to upstage and steal a scene or two, but those of us who enjoyed one of the best programmes to ever hit TV, expected and accepted that. Because of Time Team I now want to become an archeologist. I now look forward to watching as many individual shows as I can in the future. I really didnt like that nasty dendrochronologist who wouldnt show his results though idiot! My oldest son and my husband dream of being as good in tapping flint as Phil! ARE THEY NUTS? Its sad to see another worthwhile educational program going by the wayside. He trained as a surveyor before entering the archaeology section of the Ordnance Survey. Also it being on an increasingly miserable Channel (4) did it no favours whatsoever. 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! Jim Mower (development producer, see his opinion piece here) believes that Phil Hardings material was among the most innovative. 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. Maybe the BBC can resurrect this show. BRING BACK TIME TEAM PLEASE!!!! Can anyone help us with the contact? Have only just found out that Time Team has been axed after 20 years and I am gutted. They were like a 70s open university program with their hairstyles and clothes. Time Team announces historic comeback with 2021 dig at huge Oxfordshire Roman villa that may be 'almost the size of Buckingham Palace'. I was digging my veg patch yesterday and I found a napped piece of flint. I continue to be in awe of the fantastic skill and enthusiasm of the presenters.May TT be always available to us. Vale Time Team, you will be missed. Not all of us want mindless reality TV that costs a few bob to present. By In 2005, Carenza Lewis left to pursue other interests. Self - Sanday, Orkney (1998) . Always will be in my heart! Thank you. I will think of you when I am digging in a field this afternoon, that you once dug, and bury a memento in your memory. I am shattered by this news. I too am upset that this has been axed. There are quite a few of us down here watching repeats ( up to 5 times) but even so they are still interesting. This is not the present series I wonder where you are watching? We only recently discovered the Time Team show and rush to ensure we dont miss a show. I loved the banter between Tony, Phil and Mick and anyone could see they enjoyed their jobs. 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. Biggest mistake ever! It brought the money and expertise to investigate sites that would otherwise never have been touched. I and my husband have learned so much over the years (and are still learning): not only about archeaology itself, but about interpreting architecture, landscapes and social history, to name but three. time team has over the years discovered great things. I love the show, and I have also fallen in love wit Faye Simpson. Ok BBC4, its time for you to take Time Team. Time team is one of the programs I love to watch. I am going to miss the show. Cheers. Spent many an hour intrigued by the whole show and the people on it. He only lives about 10 miles away. !I have just retired and it would be perfect NOW. 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. Please sign fans: The UK has always been relied on for quality productions and Time Team epitomised these values, but obviously, some young Turk in a rented tux has been allowed to jazz it up. 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. & has never been more pi**ed off 2 here that its being Sorry I dont know how to do this! In relation to earlier comments concerning Mr Robinson, all I can say is that if he was patronising us then it must have been a residual echo of Baldrics most cunning plan. How about a petition to Channel 4 demanding its continuation? too, although not often. Sounds ageism to me, isnt that against the law now? Above all we learned something new in each programme , not the usual rehashed information served up in other one -off programmes on popular periods. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Its amazing. While I wont be involved in the new sites, I was delighted to accept the role of honorary patron of the Time Team project. (and its cost increases). Little surprise she became a history teacher. Thats fairly unusual.. just found TT on Acorn streaming. Very disappointing. About the same time I discovered TT and became a dedicated viewer and have viewed all their programmes thanks to More Four. Were not archaeologists but were not stupid either it really did feel like they had decided the audience was unintelligent. Stewart surveys, records and investigates archaeological sites. It was this show that gave me the inspiration to study history and I will really miss it. But its also the fact that they didnt just impart accumulated knowledge, they made new discoveries as we watched. Thanks to all the past & present members of the crew and cast. The key participants deserve a rest at their age, and the joy obviously just wasnt there. Such mass-production was only possible with more rigorous processes guiding filming. I really loved the show and learned so much. Its one of those few things in life that meant so much, really looked forward to every episode. Looky tha! For me, as a genealogist, an episode really takes flight when, in addition to the dig, Robin Bush, or Guy D., or Carenza bring out a mediaeval charter, the Domesday Book, or the A.S. 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. My favourite show. Coincidentally, digging within a tight timeframe echoed contemporary changes underway in the profession. Just did the same as Leigh trying to find out when the next series is due to start. Big Thanks Time Team,will never get tired of watching the shows,fingers crossed you can make some more. Goodbye, Time Team, and thank you. It is the ONLY program I think worth watching in all the rubbish put on these days ! I have enjoyed Time Team from day one. Who made the decision to axe time team but it is a mistake they will regret. Loved the history of U.K. Always worked so hard and made sense of sites that could have remained a mystery. i never knew this show was available as the colonies never mentioned it. When SBS decided to bring new hip young presenters in to replace the two experienced, knowledgeable and popular presenters who had made it from 1986 to 2004, and made it an institution, the ratings plummeted, and the new format was canned after 2 years. and Im so grateful to all the Time Team members for a wonderful 20 seasons. I still watch the series on U-tube. 20 years is a long time in television. This is the sort of Programme that would thrive on BBC 2 in conjunction with The Open University. TV is going downhill faster & faster. Dont judge based on the rubbish you get over there. This did happen in fact, but the show kept going with Mick Aston and (Sir) Tony Robinson always at the helm. 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. Brought up 3 kids on it. You only have to look at the great interest shown over Richard III to realise that yes there is a market for a programme of this nature. 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. It may also be heresy to say so, but I think many people who were interested more in the archaeology than the banter, found the relationship between Phil and Tony, to be past its sell by date. My children are 13 and 12, and we all like to sit down as a family and watch this programme together and learn something. Look at Lee Bradys comment 23rd Jan. Theres a link for a petition hes got started. And thank you Mick, R.I.P. My cable TV subscription gives us awesome selections for history, science, and information buffs! He has since appeared in over two hundred episodes. Less time looking at the scrapping away of mud from a piece of skull. Stewart Ainsworth (born 26 June 1951) is a British archaeological investigator who was regularly seen on . Sadly, my wife passed away in January 2012 but I carried on watching it until it ended. along with Mick Aston, Robin Bush & Beric Morley. Stewart Ainsworth FSA (born 26 June 1951) is a British archaeological investigator who is regularly seen on Time Team the Channel 4 archaeological television series he joined in 1995. Though Professor Aston appears with the new recruits in the current series, he will not join the 20th series, which starts filming in April and is due to be shown this year. 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. A political gesture aimed at building up regional television, Time Team was picked because it seemed a safe pair of hands. Watching the archaeologists and seeing their enthusiasm at even the smallest find,is to me infectious. I have watched the episode from Barra several times. Big Bang (repeat), Simpsons (repeat), Simpsons (another repeat), Maid in Manhattan (good grief!). In 1994 January 16th until 2012.rip time team along with mick Aston I am devastated ! 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. As late as season 18 the programme was pulling in a respectable audience of 1.1 million, partly because it had built up a loyal following, and partly because the team were still digging great sites. yes, I too have treasured every episode, and it has been the one programme of all channels that I never wanted to miss, even asking family to record it if I went on holiday, in the early years before I had a dvd m/c. 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. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. but they wont last forever and young blood is always needed. It enabled a local group to secure Historic Lottery Fund money to dig the site. Stranger things have happened! time team r.i.p. Im writing this having just had my daily lunchtime fix of a Tiime Team repeat on More 4. They tried to make it edgy and the thing I loved about time team was its lack of edginess? Somehow they know that the user is in the US and access is denied. Well said and one hundred per cent agree. Oh Dear. Thank you to all of Time Team for 20 wonderful years. RIP Mick Aston Refreshing to see non-Brits find our history/heritage of great interest. It has certainly opened up the world of archaeology to new generations, and has I am incredibly disappointed at CH4 for axing a fine British programme. 20 years of viewing no extra costs Faye, Bridget, Alice et al brightened my week And I learnt something Or we could watch some thick tosspot nobody acting like a tw4t and manufactured into some 3rd rate star. DREADFUL ! 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. I have scoured the Internet watching every episode I can find, some more than once. He was an inspiration to me and to so many others. You wonder what kind of palsy comes over TV programers when they occasionally axe the best shows, shows with strong, solid substance!!! This article is 10 years old but like a spoiler. C4 has descended to abysmal levels. There are many pagan archeologists too. I love a list and now I can tick off which ones Ive seen in a suitably anal fashion. I hate that its producers felt the need to change its face to meet the modern idea of glamour! In mid October 2012 an all-points bulletin was emailed to Time Team staff. Maybe after all these replies BBC4 may approach the original team !!! The programme certainly triggered my interest and my wifes interest in Archaeology. Channel 4 has just axed the best show on tv wont be watching channel 4 again, There will always be someone who knows what we like we to watch. there must be a law t Will miss the team, at least we have more 4. Thanks Julia and Lizbeth. During that time he deduced the towns Medieval layout. Spot on. Just started to watch the latest series on C4, very very sad to be losing it soon. We are saddened to hear that a great T.V show which entertained and informed is being axed. His passion for digging up relics, come rain or shine, is unparalleled. I suppose theres nothing wrong with her per se, but her presence is utterly unnecessary. Whatever happened, wed all thought, well complete the 20th series. I liked the pictures Victor did on several shows which showed the principals in historical costumes. My son in his early 20s always likes to watch 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. The changes proved too much, too fast, and viewing figures crashed to 700,000. Not on the Live I dug at. He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. I met Phil Harding a few years ago at old sarum castle, Salisbury, we had a lovely chat, hes a fab bloke. But, as always with Time Team, the adventure is in the discovery of the secrets of the past, whatever they are!, Landowner Martin Fiennes a cousin of actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, and explorer Sir Ranulph says: Were delighted to welcome Time Team to Broughton. Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, a Presenter is not supposed to insult the experts he is reporting on. Were currently watching the series (2012?) Buggering about with scheduling times has buggered many a decent tv series. 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. The dig is important because the whole are is soon to be developed as a tourist complex with golf course. I will miss Mick and Phil and Tony. The team was supplemented by experts appropriate for the period and type of site. Official website also launched: http://www.TimeTeamFans.com Thanks everyone. i record all the T T i can i have brought T t dvd. We are a large audience. Having said that, I hope this means Time Team DVDs will now be more available to those of us in the US who adore the show. I never made any money out of it, but a lot of my soul went into it. the cast were so friendly to each other and the show was so intresting and made you think off our past . I THINK THIS IS A SHOCKING DECISION AND CAN ONLY HOPE THAT IT IS REVERSED!!! I am! And they have taken it off and broken up a brilliant team. 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. 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. Just recently I saw a show about Egypt using satellite infra red survey archaeology that could reveal all the subsurface features accross a whole landscape. Hundreds of pounds would be spent on scientific dating such as C14, with the results only coming back in time for a line of dialogue to be dubbed on months after filming had concluded. 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. Axing time team is a huge mistake. Maybe it will work with time team too. In addition, people are re-discovering the magic and history of their local areas and the wellbeing that can be derived from activities like archaeology. anyway the technology is facinating and makes history come alive. Schooled in observational documentaries, Graham followed the digs as they evolved. Tony admitted a number of times that he is not an archeologist. Interested in keeping up to date with the latest archaeological finds across Britain? Gutted that Time Team has ended! I will miss my bit of kulcha. I know real archaeologists are dismissive of Time Team but I loved it. Your Upper Classes have been re-inventing themselves as New Romans and Empire builders for some time now, particularly in the last few centuries.They lost touch with who they ACTUALLY were and their own people. Well it seems the bean counters got their way. The fact that TT was the only programme I regularly watched on Channel 4 I am very sad to see it go. I assume it will be more imported American rubbish or so called comedy. My second eldest is 18, and we only watch one program together as our interests are so different (that would be Time Team). It was my highlight of the week especially now i am disabled and dont leave the house very often. Much as I still love watching them (though, annoyingly, More 4 often shows the same programme a week later), I can hardly bear to think there will be no more new ones. Steve Singleton With Tony Robinson, Stewart Ainsworth, Victor Ambrus, Mick Aston. 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). The banter between him and the otherwise notoriously stuffy academics was legendary. In other words, archaelogy, teamwork, and interaction in that order. there was total outrage and ABC picked it up with the two oldies . 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 would be nice if Channel 4 admitted its error and reinstated Time Team in its proper format. His role translating archaeology into laymens terms was pure genius. I want Time Team brought back. 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. Maybe it was better to end the show before they replaced the entire cast with celebrities from TOWIE. We are shocked to read that Time Team is finished. We may not see its like again. And Ive always thought tony was perfectly great as the show presenter, interested and fun, a joy to watch. | 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 was the product (exclusively) of Channel 4 a commercial TV-only company that was created in the early 80s. My grandson is a budding archeologist and watches it over and over again. That doesnt work in the US. I have always enjoyed TT but the latest series seems to have lost its spark! Like others I would like to see somebody else either bringing it back or developing the format. (Then, of course, it goes straight to Hell). John and his team must have walked miles. Jim summed up their approach as messing with something perfectly fine, and when it wasnt a success, blaming the people trying to make it work., Time Teams cost also made it vulnerable. Time Teams genesis is a well-rehearsed story. NON of these corporations do they think we are all idiots who will do as they as told like little children in school!!!!! It worked before, if you think about it. After playing a critical role in many of Time Team's digs, from the caves of Cheddar to the jungles of Nevis, Mick . Do 5 day digs instead. Far from a media concoction, the unique individuals on Time Team were filmed going about their work with an honesty and integrity that has seen the series heralded as Britains first reality television show. Closed minds achieve nothing in life. What a lot we learned. I am totally gutted to learn of the demise of TT. (now part of English Heritage) in 1985, and is now head of its Landscape Investigation Team based in York, England. Tony, Mick,and Phil will be missed. Not that I want to live there though am quite happy to be an Australian. ! If it doesnt involve foul-mouthed yobs eating too much, drinking too much or better still both, they arent bovvered. If I were an enterprising producer on another channel, I would start a new series that build on the fascinating skills of Stuart A. The idea/format needs to be revived by BBC4. And really, TT changed my life! The breakthrough came when Timesigns proved an unexpected hit. The team of Tony, Mick, Phil, Stuart, John, Carenza, Brigid, Guy, etc etc filled me with warmth and satisfaction. The writing was on the wall when it regularly began featuring cleavage shots of diggers and the dreaded re-enactments. A brief history of Time Team Time Team 's genesis is a well-rehearsed story. Some single episodes already . I had no idea it had finished. This comment by Peter Thomas is an excellent precis of all that has been said. Your email address will not be published. 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. 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. That executive was not recruited from the intellectual highbrow Channel 5 was he? But once the old hands started to disappear the magic went too. And this program had run its course several years ago. 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