The final piece of the jigsaw fell into place during the fledgling Time Teams first episode. Find out more about how we use your information in our privacy policy and cookie policy. Bring back Time Team. And we have just recently lost Mick Aston, the Rock of Gibraltar of the show. will take it on. By
They almost succeeded in ruining it until this present series.Channel 4 have betrayed the cast, crew and viewers. This did happen in fact, but the show kept going with Mick Aston and (Sir) Tony Robinson always at the helm. 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. Found Time Team on You Tube. And Ive always thought tony was perfectly great as the show presenter, interested and fun, a joy to watch. Time Team did a superb job and has an excellent track record of quality archaeology, bringing the subject to millions via TV and publishing the results! If an episode costs 200,000 and average 1.5 million viewers, would 1 million be willing to pay 20p via mobile phone or subscription towards making it, or 400,000 willing to pay 50p per episode? I am gutted Time Team is for the chop, I love it!!! 17:30 EST 07 Feb 2012 certainly helped to fill a lot of university places, even if many of those gaining degrees have gone on to other careers. Admittedly, in the last year or so I have found myself increasingly disinterested in the programme. Maybe the resulting reruns and you tube videos will be a template for all group endeavors. Your contribution to TV and Archeology is now history itself! The writing was on the wall when it regularly began featuring cleavage shots of diggers and the dreaded re-enactments. i never knew this show was available as the colonies never mentioned it. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Long-serving archaeologists Helen Geake and Stewart Ainsworth would appear less often. It used to be on in the early evening at a specific time every week, but in recent years it has been moved to late afternoon with the start time changing by 5, 10, 15 minutes over the weeks making watching and even recording it more problematic. Now the format was safely established the programme was increasingly able to capitalise on its fame and access big name sites ultimately even Buckingham Palace. Im in my mid 40s. 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. Over the years has shown archaeology all round UK. Find out more here. It remains my all time favourite reality TV show and I really miss it. NON of these corporations do they think we are all idiots who will do as they as told like little children in school!!!!! Im 78 years old. Regards Peter Mulready Australia. In between programmes, E4 these days uses short clips of things like hillwalking and narrow boats to ridicule the interests of old people. and the entire bunch breathed fresh life into the sometimes boring subject of Archaeology. Partly, we all feel we are losing old friends after all this time but theres so much trash on TV that its no surprise that its loss is so keenly felt. Also, the most recent posters may not have heard of Mick Astons premature death. He said: We were very sorry to see Mick go, and he leaves an extraordinary legacy. Stewart Ainsworth (born 26 June 1951) is a British archaeological investigator who was regularly seen on . He trained as a surveyor before entering the archaeology section of the Ordnance Survey. Cliche good looking, middle-class presenters who appear somewhat dull in enthusiasm. The fun gone out of Sunday teatime! I can honestly say that what you saw on the television was what you got in real life. swinging camera booms. Failing that I can recommend looking at Google Maps satellite pictures of your local area looking for earthworks hours of fun! Gee I feel gutted. archaeology..is what my 11 year old gran daughter is looking into training for..shows like these are needed more. During that time he deduced the towns Medieval layout. Sadly,she passed away 2 years ago but before she went, she told me not to forget to watch TT. 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. I loved it and speaking as an Hibernian, the only thing I found mildly irritating was Tonys obsession with all things Roman. The fact that TT was the only programme I regularly watched on Channel 4 I am very sad to see it go. This segregates the viewers and leaves fans like me stuck in the middle and slightly upset at the notion that my favorite programmes have been taken over by people who havent got a idea. Rest in peace, Mick, you added more to peoples lives than you probably ever realised. There was a early chemistry here of personalities, as well as expertise. Wasnt TT the only reason to watch Channel 4 ? Carenzas missing as is Helen, I see Mick walked out as I also presume Stewart has too. 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! CHANNEL 4 you just do not know what you have done ! I completely agree with you Lauren. Good job I have the internet to log onto. Judged a misfire by Channel 4, it could have been the end. I have enjoyed Tony Robinsons commentaries. I absolutely agree with everything you said ! However, they added: Intelligence, natural curiosity and a passion for archaeology is a must.. Slower paced, Timesigns has Mick talking directly to the camera in a style more akin to a history documentary or Open University broadcast. 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. and I just came across the time team on my tablet in November 2019. I love time team because it is filled with such enthusiasm and love for its subject. i record all the T T i can i have brought T t dvd. Tim Taylor devised the name Time Team, and in 1992 a pilot episode was filmed in Dorchester-on-Thames. However, as a viewer I hugely enjoyed the opportunity to share in the Teams excitement. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Its a shame we didnt see you and the team doing more international locations. if there is a petition please let me know.i would like to put our names down. I had drawn him into the subject a few years after we married but I had the privilege of degree training. What will Ch4 spend its money on now, even more American imports? Now I will be stuck with overproduced, watered down supposedly historically accurate twaddle , We held a bit of a poll a few years ago with the Pagan Federation as to what the favourite TV programme was. 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.
Shame on Chanel 4! Didnt like the changes either to the team it change the dynamics of the program but kept watching anyway. Phil is fantastic as he has always been. 03:12 EST 08 Feb 2012. 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. Mick, and Phil, and even Tony all made a significant contribution to our understanding archaeology and they way in which it can inform us of our past. How right Mick Aston was. HATE all the crap American shows taking over the tv. It would be nice if Channel 4 admitted its error and reinstated Time Team in its proper format. It is located on the Broughton Estate in Oxfordshire, belonging to the Fiennes family. By clicking Accept all you agree that Yahoo and our partners will process your personal information, and use technologies such as cookies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights, and product development. I am so sad and gutted Time Team has been axed. Not a Tony Robinson fan myself but he is part of the show. Perhaps there were too many Roman sites with their predictable layouts. It all got too big, too ambitious. I too am upset that this has been axed. Mary Ann Ochota qualified or not added nothing substantive unless the viewer was starved for gratuitous cleavage shots and huge white beaverish teeth. Changing all the staff behind Time Team was a big mistake, but ending it is even bigger. 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. He is President of the Friends Of Epiacum, the Roman fort on the southern edge of Northumberland which he has surveyed and studied in depth. 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. What a hero! Sad to hear the show is coming to an end but hopefully repeat episodes will frequent our screens for a long time to come. Thank you. Season 1, aired in 1994, had four episodes, while season 2 followed with five, and season 3 boasted six. Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 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? He is president of the Friends of Epiacum, also known as Whitley Castle, the Roman fort on the southern edge of Northumberland which he has surveyed and studied in depth. What about the number of times they were wrong? We shall mourn the loss of TT in Australia, although the episodes arrive on our screens years after they are made, which means well be watching them long after the series ends were still with the old format so I cant comment on the new look TT. We only recently discovered the Time Team show and rush to ensure we dont miss a show. Sir Tony can do no wrong with me. I once heard Mr Harding say Oh arr. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. Without time team on the television the world of tv is going to be a poorer place. The last series was disappointing without Helen and Stuart who were replaced by people without half their expertise. For those people who wish to view old episodes back to day 1 surely all you need to do is put channel 4, possibly you may need to add UK.com, if overseas, into your search engine,register on line,confirm e mail address and then enter Time Team in the search box.You can even view Time Signs the original pilot series. Click Manage settings for more information and to manage your choices. 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. Weve also done the landscapes around them, so if you want additional information then the Time Team reports contain that.. 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. I do not think that the British tourism board and channel 4 realize how much interest world wide their is in British history. This is in no doubt as a direct result of the post production. We cannot wait to share this magic with you! 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 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. My politics are not Tony Robinsons or Mick Astons, but both deserve warm congratulations for what they did for archaeology and viewers over two decades.Tony Robinson seems to be largely responsible for the successful populist formula, the zest and the humourand the succinct resumes to stop viewers getting flummoxed., He deserves a knighthood but presumably he would just wrinkle his nose. If you ever wanted to check anything academically, you ran a brick wall which amply demonstrated it was seen by C4 as a Reallity show, complete with Dymock shots. Congrats to Lee Brady for having the knowledge to set up the petition and we must (using the current idiom) cascade to as many people that we can to sign too. Or are we all to turn off our televisions once we reach 40? It was the highlight of my life ! From Phils glee over Stone Age flints, Tonys wisely playful and challenging banter, Micks sage hand on the digs tiller, Johns gentle determination to get the best cartography the technology can provide, Franciss round house fireside mussing on an Iron Age mans joys in life and Stuart goes walk about so we can get the lay of the land and know our place in it was amazing, every bit of it. anyway the technology is facinating and makes history come alive. He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. Learning? Without Mick Aston it will not be the same, but as such it will be a fitting tribute to a great forward thinking man. 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. Ive loved Time Team since day one, but recently Ive found it becoming a little too cozy. Would love to see a new Time Team series up and running again especially now theyve found King Richard llls body, also instead of 3 days to uncover make it a 5-7 days to uncover maybe Geo-physics could find out a lot more information so here is a challenge to all the mainstream TV channels bring back Time Team! Much better than most of the rubbish we get now that there are so many channels chasing adverts & broadcasting ever increasing repeats. There are many pagan archeologists too. CHANNEL 4, YOU ARE A COMPLETE BUNCH OF IDIOTS!!!. Best wishes, good luck and Gods speed to the lot of you! Completely unable to absorb and assimilate well presented information in an entertaining style, and you completely misread the ironic style of Tony Robinson. This show has been a wonderful joy to follow over the years, and I shall so miss it. Was it her sultry beauty, or easy going attitude that rubs some the wrong way ? She studied at University College London and University of York, specialising in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. !I have just retired and it would be perfect NOW. 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. It works when the product and the people who are involved are so good. Possibly my favourite television programme. This will give viewers the chance to engage as the shows are researched and developed, see live blogs during filming, watch virtual reality landscape data at home and join in Q&As with the team. Mick Aston is a damn good archaeologist and his departure was a serious loss to the programme. I bought a couple of the DVD sets and have just ordered a Phil Harding coffee mug from Wessex Archaeology to keep the memories alive. too, although not often. BBCs own channels will have BBC prefixing the number and anything not by the BBC will obviously by without this prefix. 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. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! I now live in Australia and love watching shows on my homeland. The explanation for the end of Time Team is that the people who run Channel 4 are all about 12 years old. By the summer of 2012 Channel 4 no longer wanted old Time Team. Discovered Time Team after visiting U.K. 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. Poor second best but something is better than nothing. Ive watched since episode 1 as well and yet Im not gutted because these days you see a lot more archaeology programmes on tv as a result of their achievement. With a fantastic team backed by Keith Westcott and Martin Fiennes, local community support, the possibility of an ongoing legacy, and the guarantee of great archaeology, Broughton Castle ticks all the boxes!, Taylor continues: The Broughton villa promises to be one of the finest examples in Britain. The thing that should be axed is the TV exec that made that decision. I am appalled. Great memories sadly missed. 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. The idea/format needs to be revived by BBC4. He trained as a surveyor before entering the archaeology section of the Ordnance Survey. And as others have said, perhaps it could be resurrected on BBC4??? You can never run out of history in Britain. What a shame to see TT let go. Big Thanks Time Team,will never get tired of watching the shows,fingers crossed you can make some more. I WONDER what rubbish they will put on instead. I am 81 & have watched & enjoyed TT for many years. Time Team repeats on You Tube are helping to keep me sane during the Covid19 lockdown. RIP Time Team. But TIME TEAM managed the impossible. Now we are nearing the end of Series XX I feel a tinge of sadness that a programme which both educates and informs will be with us no more. This is the sort of Programme that would thrive on BBC 2 in conjunction with The Open University. I wonder how much is wasted on their wages. Like others I have loved TT right from the start and have always enjoyed it. Surely television that inspires interest and development is too good to lose? Oh dear what a shame as its such a great program especially with Phil & ALL the team.I think their sense of humour is almost worth a show on its own.Anyway a big thank you for many interesting hours as a an armchair archeologist. My wife was not well for several years & she found Time Team to be one of the few programs worth watching. 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. Time Teams status as a staple of the television schedule also wrought changes behind the scenes. 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. I am now watching past digs being repeated on More Four. Despite their varied talents and backgrounds it quickly became apparent that the team had a natural chemistry. VALE Time Team, a wonderful Viking/ Roman pyre is burning and we are drinking ourselves to oblivion. So apart from discovering the female cleavage (along with Kleenex tissues) looking for Saxon pottery designed to hold bovine waste, expanding your knowledge of Saxon tea services as well as teaching both Vivian Westwood and Tony & Guy a thing or twowhat other skills have you learned since watching Time Team? Stewart has been interested in history since the age of eleven, after reading a book about Horatio Nelson. A political gesture aimed at building up regional television, Time Team was picked because it seemed a safe pair of hands. I enjoy his style of presentation. 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. Sounds as though short sighted suits are at work. The villa is a tantalising prospect - a grand building almost as big as Buckingham Palace. I for one will not watch any new episodes. As others have said, lets hope that the B.B.C. 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. The obvious situation is that if it kept to the original cast ( which it did not ), then there would be a problem immediately when someone left, or passed on. It encouraged me to study the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Sunday afternoons will never be the same, a wonderful programme. Even after its star began to wane Time Team remained popular. Charlies comments would carry more weight if the spelling was correct. 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. Channel 4 please think again you have made a monumental mistake! Its sad to see another worthwhile educational program going by the wayside. It was one of the most brilliant Programmes ever on TV. Most of what I feel about the demise of TT has already been said here. Im sorry to see that TT is folding though. 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! By the way I am 52, so I guess I am too old for channel 4, but tell my kids that. I am looking forward to the Village Dig series, when it eventually comes to the small screen. Really gutted TT has finished, and shame on Channel 4 for this decision! A monumental row and walk out, one would guess. Off now to have a quick dig in my garden then on to Salisbury to stalk Phil Harding.intelligence soooo sexy. I have watched time team since episode one and I am gutted . I am! And there is much yet to dig and poke at historically in the world, let alone Great Britain. (But not, ever, I would agree, grinning totty!) But once the old hands started to disappear the magic went too. The major players seem tired and cranky, and while they are all professionals and are trying very hard to be positive and upbeat, its obvious that they are trying, and that ruins it. I want Time Team brought back. I wonder if channel programmers read these blogs? For years I had little interest in any of it but as time went by this programme made me interested. My wife was unwell for many years but TT was one of the few TV Shows that she got pleasure from. My 100year old mother started,me on T.T.years ago & in turn my children and now the grandchildren watch ,ask questions and research . We range in age from 8yrs to 82yrs and have loved Tony, Mick, Phil, Carenza, Helen, Faye, geophys John and most of all Stuart. I am shattered by this news. Thats fairly unusual.. British Television just one more nail in your coffin. My nana came from England in 1901. So my husband looked for more info. And of course who can ever forget Helen Geakes dress sense and haircuts ! If I were an enterprising producer on another channel, I would start a new series that build on the fascinating skills of Stuart A. Some of the regulars have retired, some have moved on to other things, a few have departed for Tr nan g or the Field of Reeds. Am now in the process of buying the DVDs. Can anyone help us with the contact? That some suburban folks welcomed the Team to pull up their patio, knock down their potting shed, and bore holes in their rafters, used to amaze me. and have watched it since the begining. if you can i would a reply.also HELEN IS ALSO VERY GOOD. I watch any that come on now.. saw one yesterday about the digging our of the 2 world war planes in the bogs.. The dig is important because the whole are is soon to be developed as a tourist complex with golf course. My favourite show. Its our favoite show. It is a great shame it is finishing and I am very sad!! Great format, educational safe family viewing. 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. Learned lots of the history of the show from these posts but I dont know whether Ive seen the cleavage or whether Micks absence from a dig is because hes doing something else, on hols etc or because hes gone. I agree with Brian, a petition might make Ch4 sit up and realise that we, the viewers, have got brains and like to watch programs with interesting and informative content. There was a youthful energy to them back them, which was part of the attraction. Out of interest, Time Team fans, how many of you would be willing to pay directly to watch new programs? And the journey is not quite over yet. From jan Marie jaser. I watched every show, every season, and I never noticed that Tony had an obsession with Romans. The villa is a tantalising prospect a grand building almost as big as Buckingham Palace. I am team Ainsworth, so he would have to be brought back. There is a petition already, on Facebook, which is not the ideal place. Shots of him in woodland seeking out raw materials for a reconstructed axe allowed the audience to witness the hands-on practical process. Somehow they know that the user is in the US and access is denied. People who had their gardens dug up were very brave once Phil got digging, were their gardens reland scaped. (Cardiff hillfort). sundays seem empty without my time team fix. When he took this pitch to various studios, however, no one wanted to know. Your sorrow will be eased by the sight of a few old, friendly faces. I really didnt like that nasty dendrochronologist who wouldnt show his results though idiot! The Twitter page has been great up to now. I will miss Matt and Bridgit and all the others especially Phil. I cant help being captivated by the digs. The changes proved too much, too fast, and viewing figures crashed to 700,000. Southern Gaulish Samian ware, or Green Glaze, 14th Century. Observing how so many, different, recondite specialty fields come together paleopalynography. I agree what will replace it I can see more reality programmes cooking programmes selling houses nothing to work the mind channel 4 must be out of thier tiny mind. For those too grief stricken to cope right now, subscribe to the youtube video blog of Dig Village. What a great detective. Inspiring stuff. Hopefully, I will be able to visit some. They should have known how appealing it would be. And really, TT changed my life! Maybe one day she will say sorry to us all. Im retired now and would love to get involved in archeology at some level. I enjoyed all the archaeologists and presenter Tony Robinson. 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! Lee. A viewers petition is probably the most difficult to achieve. My dad worked for the National Park Service and I was born quite near Chaco Canyon[(a universally important archeological site) in a Navajo mission(Christian) hospital]. We will miss his humour, his knowledge and his warmth. A relative alerted us to Time Team knowing.my husband and I were long term enthusiasts. Tony was constantly disagreeing with the archaeologists, and for some unexplained reason there was loud ballet music all but obliterating the commentary. 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. I wonder if some young Channel 4 TV executive is proud of his/her decisions. Im sitting here on the sofa watching the usual More 4 showing on a Saturday morning. TT was an utter revelation. My grandson is a budding archeologist and watches it over and over again. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the digs and finds discovered by the crew. I watched all but episode 1. I saw the same program, Justin, and I agree entirely! 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