Brought up 3 kids on it. The easy familiarity between the people on the programs has been such a contrast to the egos and prima donna attitudes you see in so many other programs. Try Dig Ventures, an online crowd-funded Archaeology site. I would be very interested in acquiring DVDs of the whole series to watch at my leaisure. This comment by Peter Thomas is an excellent precis of all that has been said. He completed his undergraduate and Master's degrees at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London before embarking on a career in commercial archaeology. TT would be ideal on BBC4, which is a very good channel, and it would be great to see a full hour. Enough said. 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 former academic at Bristol and Oxford universities, he has worked tirelessly to bring archaeology to a wider audience. This so Heartbreaking. The foregoing is an exhausting but entertaining read. I read a number of the same comments over and over here, and some are quite valid. I still watch the series on U-tube. 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. In 2005, Carenza Lewis left to pursue other interests. Also, the most recent posters may not have heard of Mick Astons premature death. All of the team can be proud of 20 years of quality television and the many lives touched and informed. People understand it isnt treasure hunting well, we probably still have some way to go with that one! Tim points to Over 230 films that have been seen in 36 countries. With my boys now being 8, 6 and 4 years old, we are still watching the episodes and in our holidays we try out some of the things weve seen on TT. Well Done Time Team, sad to hear you are soon to be no more. I am watching repeats on Yesterday but hate the constant adverts. Prof Mick, great bloke and always so calm, Carensa made a lot of episodes more entertaining and TR a god of comedy and history. It is the ONLY program I think worth watching in all the rubbish put on these days ! Not any more. 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! Perhaps we can come up with a crew of our own with Ronald Hutton replacing Tony Robinson and I do know of a great film crew that would take up the filming. It was responsible for me going on a dig and having a great time. 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! It was the highlight of my life ! Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Loved Time Team and will miss it [endless repeats are not the same but I still find myself watching them anyway]. Tony admitted a number of times that he is not an archeologist. I hate that its producers felt the need to change its face to meet the modern idea of glamour! Many a critic was silenced by seeing the team in action. I can honestly say that what you saw on the television was what you got in real life. I live in Minnesota and am anxious to explore sites of the indigenous people who lived and continue to live here. Such a shame a beautiful show as this is axed and they show such dribble as reality tv shows blah yuk. Sad that time team is no longer , they should go back to how it all started , dont mess with what is ok . i believe everything has a lifespan, and that must include television shows. document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a3c3c528f5d4ab9be4dd73fd43d71409" );document.getElementById("ac59ec51d8").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Latest news from our sister site, the-past.com. British Television just one more nail in your coffin. Coincidentally, digging within a tight timeframe echoed contemporary changes underway in the profession. 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. Time Team brought so much into my life, being bed ridden, television being a large part of my life now. 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! Just started to watch the latest series on C4, very very sad to be losing it soon. Im the guy who set it up, iv got the page on Facebook, Twitter and the main website that i run. 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. 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. The whole catering & accommodation aspect could have been trimmed, without loss of such a wonderful program. It is located on the Broughton Estate in Oxfordshire, belonging to the Fiennes family. There are quite a few of us down here watching repeats ( up to 5 times) but even so they are still interesting. And anyway, why would we want Channel 4 to keep TT? 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. I enjoyed the later seasons in HD quality quite a lot, and I wish they would keep going for 20 more years. 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. Agree 100%, they should have left it well alone. I have several friends who are serious archaeologists who have been dismissive of this program over the years, some of their comments about the lack of time for each dig are valid. The programme has no need for eye candy, no need to try to attract yuppies: archaeology is like genealogy interest grows (although not exclusively) with age. Fond regards to everyone from the past on TT. Im an Englishman, came to Australia as a 12yo in 1970. Perhaps one of the other channels will see the folly of C4s ways and pick up the program before its too late? 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. Yes as convicts and bloody proud of it. John Gater, Francis Pryor, Stewart Ainsworth, and Phil Harding. I have always been engrossed by archaeology. I hope that someone has the sense to resorect TT even if it is repeated from the beginning. I cant help being captivated by the digs. Phew! They cant bring it back. We also miss Stuart very much. Its a shame we didnt see you and the team doing more international locations. As a lowyal Time Team viewer from Australia, I am devastated. I am signing up to the campaign to keep Time Team! Dont think that the U.K. has the monopoly on scrapping popular shows it happens here in N.Z. Alarm bells began to ring for us when Mary-Anne appeared it seemed to coincide with a dumbing-down of the show. The huge plus for archaeology in general has been the raising of the profile of a branch of science that prior to this program was the province of a fairly small group of people. Great memories sadly missed. I am thrilled that TT is returning in 2022, but saddened that Phil, Raksha and Tony will not be participating. here was atransfixing series, turning elitist subject into everyday knowledge for the ordinary man. The focus groups of today, the council chambers of yesteryear; all determined to make their mark, put their talent on show. Telly Tubbies. 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. (Cardiff hillfort). (all good things must come to an end). against what channel 4 have done o no they will get a pat on the back and a good pay off for being stupid .. so sad we wont see friends like the time team on our t v screen again.,. A unique combination of expertise, enthusiasm and humour. Subscribe to Current Archaeology the UKs favourite archaeology magazine and like thousands of other people you too can get details of all the latest digs and discoveries delivered to your door, every month. Rather than targeting the palaces and castles of the rich and famous, individual episodes modestly sought to solve simple, local questions. 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. Big Thanks Time Team,will never get tired of watching the shows,fingers crossed you can make some more. Now, many dislike Tony as he is renowned to be a woke leftist with an attitude, but as a presenter, I thought he did magnificently well. Raksha Dave from Time Team is part of it. My oldest son and my husband dream of being as good in tapping flint as Phil! This is a disaster in t.v programming where currently all you get is the banal reality of the likes of Toddlers in Tiaras .The Time Team over the years became like welcome friends into your home and you wished you could join them in the pub at the end for a beer. I loved the camaraderie.. the discoveries.. the wonderful feeling of how people not only survived in early times..but were every bit as capable and inventive as WE think we are ! 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. . ! The time team has brought history, archaeology, geophys and a devoted team of professionals into my life. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. It will be interesting to see how the new Village Dig series comes across on TV. It has made the subject of archaeology interesting and accessible for everyone and if they were still activetheres an interesting mound that desperately needs investigating at the end of our road. 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. Is there any posibility of obtaining a copy of this and the program on the barge in the river Rhine. They have onbly made a couple of mistakes, 1 was letting Mick go and the other was axing Time Team. Dont judge based on the rubbish you get over there. Now British television can be as dumbed down and offensive as American television has become. Miss TT so much. I met Phil Harding a few years ago at old sarum castle, Salisbury, we had a lovely chat, hes a fab bloke. RIP Mick Aston Yes, Phil can still shift the muck but check out his work on lithics studies and you might change your opinion. Time Teams legacy leaves much to celebrate. Far too many highlights to choose a favourite, but Ill always have a soft spot for the tone of Tony Robinsons voice when he explained that the sash-cum-swordbelt worn by Saxon fighters was called a baldric. I know we have no Roman history, but there are thousands of of places that date back thousands of years. We will miss his humour, his knowledge and his warmth. Hated that glamour woman simply the wrong feel.. Very, very sorry that management mis-handling killed it. And anyone who does not like Tony Robinson probably doesnt like Rowan Atkinson either, probably has not a read book over 30 pages in decades, and probably believes the Big Bang was what happened in their bedroom last night.. Sunday afternoons will never be the same, a wonderful programme. The roman barge in Utrect was particularly interesting and my son in Holland wished to see it. My second eldest is 18, and we only watch one program together as our interests are so different (that would be Time Team). Jim Mower (development producer, see his opinion piece here) believes that Phil Hardings material was among the most innovative. In terms of Cotswolds villas Time Team has probably covered more of them than anyone else. Regards, Paul Tressel [emailprotected], Time Team was a massive part of my life, Im still watching it even now on more 4 :O. Self (as Prof. Stewart Ainsworth) Show all 219 episodes 1998 Time Team Extras (TV Series documentary) Self - High Worsall, North Yorkshire (1998) . Close. We didnt do much history at school and we have all learned so much from TT. 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. Quod erat demonstrandum. Placing viewers at the heart of the action would become a Time Team hallmark. How about a petition to Channel 4 demanding its continuation? In 224 digs, Time Team revolutionised the presentation of archaeology on TV (which before had focussed largely on the Classical world), bringing Britain's heritage into our front rooms - and, in the early series, into our back gardens. A monumental row and walk out, one would guess. He asks the questions that some people must be sat in front of their TV asking. and which would be the best way to alienate the people working on the programme. An absolute feast of mind, interest and the ever curiosity of young and old alike about What lie underneath that humble plot of soil?.TIme Team approached that humble plot we would all like to delve into.they bring that knowledge of how with them and together unveal little glimspes of anothers past which we back bring here, to today.as a reflection and connection.like a mirror between centuries and timesand sunrises and pleasant breezes of a long ago Sunday afternoon, I thought it was the Bi..o presenter the doomed it for sure, brought in because we are all suddenly dumb. You clearly have no idea what youve done. 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. What do other TT viewers think? . Learning? Save Time Team Campaign is taking off really fast now, over 1,500 signatures & support from celebrity. Southern Gaulish Samian ware, or Green Glaze, 14th Century. Observing how so many, different, recondite specialty fields come together paleopalynography. 100% Upvoted. I would just like to thank Tony Robinson, Mick Aston, Phil Harding and all of the crew at Time Team for many years of fascinating TV. 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. People came and went, such as my favourite Robin Bush, but those two remained, as did their stamina and zeal for the show. Just a thought If anyone knows how to get up an on line partition, perhaps we could get enough signatures to make Ch4 sit up and take notice? The message was simple: this is local archaeology, it is your archaeology. In 2003, I joined the amateur Biggar Archaeology Group which, among other achievements, discovered the oldest known archaeological site in Scotland. Arrr! I was sad to see Carenza leave and sad to hear of the death of Robin Bush. Real shame, feels like Ive lost my friends! Many of us have watched Time Team for ages and have been educated (along with Tony) on the ins and outs of Archaeology and did not need another presenter to ask superfluous questions (nice though she was). Thank you,Mick, for all that you gave us.and thanks to Micks family for sharing him with us. It brings together entire families and to my mind, is of huge importance, in that it makes us aware of who we are and where we came from and the way it was presented to us was magical. Tony R told us that the fort was not connected by road What???? 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. 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