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. What is the matter not retro enough for you ! I am a 57 year old Aussie and I watched this program every episode I could see. It was responsible for me going on a dig and having a great time. Steve Singleton My absolute favorite TV program! Its prototype was Timesigns, a four-part series that aired in 1991. The dig has only found old bits of pipe and 1950s china, but it really does not matter, what matters is the program has inspired my children. Loved the history of U.K. Tony Robinson seems an entirely likeable guy and does his presenting job with good humour and humility. Thanks to all who were involved in Time Team in any way. You wonder what kind of palsy comes over TV programers when they occasionally axe the best shows, shows with strong, solid substance!!! Take up the mantel!! 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! Try Dig Ventures, an online crowd-funded Archaeology site. I agree entirely. And they have taken it off and broken up a brilliant team. Our investigation of the villa and the landscape it occupies will aim to preserve and enrich our understanding of the past and the people who inhabited it. But once the old hands started to disappear the magic went too. Your email address will not be published. I have been watching Time Team since its birth and can quite candidly say, I have never seen and enjoyed such a beautiful piece of television. He should have stuck to presenting instead of trying to take command. WellRay Watters has voiced my opinions exactlywatched every show many timeslearnt a vast amountlaughed aloudcried for Robin Bush.visited many siteswatched live digs on the internetfavourite themes are Saxon/Medievil so the latest episode at Oakham was superbWhat can we doCan we get our own website or freeview channel or satelite channelTHE TIME TEAM CHANNELwowendless repeats and a vast back catalougei have every episode on a hard drivedont tellsssshhhh.I would be very happy to subscribei am currently paying over 20 a month for Sky Sports and only watch it about 5 times a weekPlease let me know what you think and lets hear which are your favouritesmine is Hartlepool as this is where i am and my mother was born on the site of the Ancient AbbeyHeres hoping. The attempted dumbing down of Time Team smacks of dim executives meeting to dish corporate cliches out to one another. Agree 100%, they should have left it well alone. RESURRECT THE PAST! 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. He is 10. Vale Time Team, you will be missed. He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. I made this ages ago and thought someone here MIGHT like it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRe_gMtXNo. It has certainly opened up the world of archaeology to new generations, and has Miss TT so much. Filmed at Athelney, site of Alfred the Greats apocraphal burnt cakes, the site was scheduled, precluding excavation. Goodbye, Time Team, and thank you. TT had a great following here in Canada. and long may you show them PLEASE pauline x, I am trying to get a contact e-mail address for Tim Taylor (IV) because a group of archeologists in Canada would like to see a Time Team Canada started and we need advice and any other help from the expert. A thoroughly good bunch of people with a true PASSION for their subject ! Do 5 day digs instead. Will miss the team, at least we have more 4. Without any doubt whatsoever Time Team was the best show on TV and a giant amongst the crappy stuff we have to put up with these days such as reality TV shows. This was the best educational programme that looked forward to every week and also all the repeats that were broadcast on more 4. How very sad. What a bore YOU are! Please, please would someone bring the show back, This is just another example of Managements old adage: Its perfect; lets New and Improve it Good riddance to Time Team; patronising in the extreme, and as for that prat Robinson leaping about a la Baldrick, reduced the entire thing to music hall. What a shame to see it go, but what a swan song. 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. My parents watch it. TT is without doubt, the best offering in British television. The marvelous experts have described items, historical facts and what could have been, may have been and what was likely to have been and possibly how the ancestors [residents and visitors alike] changed the landscape. Tony Robinsons role seems to one of a viewer who does not completely understand what is going on although logic says he must have a reasonable knowledge of the subject. We also miss Stuart very much. Who is Mary Ann & what does she bring to the table? I saw the same program, Justin, and I agree entirely! 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. Time Team - Phil Harding Phil Harding Field Archaeologist Phil Harding is Time Team's resident trench-excavator. anyway the technology is facinating and makes history come alive. I will miss my bit of kulcha. My enduring memory of Tony Robinson during Time Team filming is him spending several hours of every day asleep in a massive American car with the engine running. How right Mick Aston was. I could have watched it for another 20 years. They have onbly made a couple of mistakes, 1 was letting Mick go and the other was axing Time Team. 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. Ridiculous. Toni Victoria australia. I have always wondered what happens to all the dirt that the Time Team dig out of their sites after the 3 days of digging? The cast and crew were pretty obviously seriously digging their roles, (bad pun semi-intended sorry about that sort of). We do have money too you know. 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. Many episode are available free on veehd.com. By the way, if the executives mild revamp caused viewer figures to plummet, how come it was the programme and not those executives who got the flak? Lets hope that BBC4 takes up the genre. (especially phil, that crazy bloke,lol).I hope channel 4 regret the decision to axe the show. WHY? Buggering about with scheduling times has buggered many a decent tv series. However, they added: Intelligence, natural curiosity and a passion for archaeology is a must.. If Channel Four thinks TT too expensive there is mileage in the Return To format for some digs showing some of the original programmes and then updating on subsequent research. !I have just retired and it would be perfect NOW. This little part of the world (so far from Australia) was the birthplace of my father in law. Very sad to hear Time Team is ending. The UK is lucky that it has such a long history. It is amazing to contemplate the staggering amount of archaeology lurking beneath the surface of the whole of the British Isles. It was the highlight of my life ! Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Imagine spending an entire weekend with Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth Learning How to Decode the Landscape, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stewart_Ainsworth&oldid=1140539218, People of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 15:01. 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. I often wish you could all come to my back yard 1 acre) and help me find the many many pairs of secateurs buried therein. And there is much yet to dig and poke at historically in the world, let alone Great Britain. TV & life not the same as early 1990s but I think the format is still sound (just dont turn it into on old OU prog). To anyone who loves the Sunday afternoon history fix as much as I do PLEASE sign! What better way of introducing archaeology to young people than for them to see it on a Sunday afternoon? Please bring back Time Team with Tony Robinson. It may not have been archaelogical perfection but it did make archaeology appealing to many and did digs that no one had the funds or interest to do. As others have said, lets hope that the B.B.C. with the Amazonian co-presenter with the huge bonded teeth. We hope that someone our there will take them under their wing and continue the shows its been great,you have shown us so much interesting archaeology of our past from all the corner;s of our beautiful planet,and its hard work doing all that digging and trying to preserve it for our future children. Stick to Postman Pat, Time Team is too intellectual for you. I have missed Time Team SO much.. Im getting to the point at which I can glance at a find in a diggers hand and exclaim, Oh! Sad that time team is no longer , they should go back to how it all started , dont mess with what is ok . Also it being on an increasingly miserable Channel (4) did it no favours whatsoever. Not all of us want mindless reality TV that costs a few bob to present. The students became instant converts to the program. Executive producer Philip Clarke said the current series had introduced Miss Ochota and archaeologist Alex Langlands. Hope it returns anne from Ontario Canada. Ive loved Time Team since day one, but recently Ive found it becoming a little too cozy. Im sure it was meant to interest younger viewers in Archeology, a noble enough concept. Im an Englishman, came to Australia as a 12yo in 1970. Above all we learned something new in each programme , not the usual rehashed information served up in other one -off programmes on popular periods. From the fall of TT on the minuscule scale, to the fall of a Royal house; loss of a battle; collapse of an empire. I AM SO UPSET AT THE ENDING OF TIME TEAM ! IT DID NOT NEED JAZZING UP. Cliche good looking, middle-class presenters who appear somewhat dull in enthusiasm. He compared them to the reshuffle at the BBCs Countryfile in 2008, which introduced younger presenters and, he said, reduced it to clich-ridden pap. Thank God for my Saturday morning lie-in watching four episodes in a row on More 4. To an incredible all round team we thank you and to Phil damn we will miss you! But it just goes to show how Time Team in ingrained in our family! In most places over here there are literally hundreds of channels with endless variety. Condolences on your chronic issue with clever people. IT WILL WORK, IT WILL BE SUPPORTED. What on earth is going on and who is in charge of these moronic decisions! . Carenza Lewis, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake and geophys genius John Gater will all be returning and are excited about the new sites. Tim Team has finally brought British history into focus for me. 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. Time Time could go on indefinitely as long as it found a sympathetic home, and BBC Four would be ideal, their audience demographic would fit far far better than the current Channel 4 one, which is increasingly to try and chase the Reality/Makeover show market at the expense of original programming, and attract audiences that the advertisers prefer to exploit, rather than those with brain. Sorry I dont know how to do this! 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!). Information about your device and internet connection, like your IP address, Browsing and search activity while using Yahoo websites and apps. I am 81 & have watched & enjoyed TT for many years. They were like a 70s open university program with their hairstyles and clothes. 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! 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. It was an intelligent, thought provoking, and entertaining program. Just heard about the axing of Time Team what a shame! The Team had a comradery like that of an elite military unit. Yeah. I continue to be in awe of the fantastic skill and enthusiasm of the presenters.May TT be always available to us. Tags: Miss Ochota, 30, holds a masters degree in archaeology and anthropology from Cambridge University. Come on BBC, take up where C4 left off PLEASE!! I have watched Time Team for years as has my son and many many friends. 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. 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. Is Phil Harding a Phd? With Phil Harding also on board, three members of the future Time Team core were in place. Yes, Tony R was sometimes (often?) It is located on the Broughton Estate in Oxfordshire, belonging to the Fiennes family. I have watched Time Team from the beginning and love the earlier episodes and although its sad that its going it has changed considerably.Not the same without Mick his enthusiasm makes for great watching. And a pint or 2 as well, EUTOPIA. As Mick Aston observed the geophys and Time Team have always gone hand in hand. And anyway, why would we want Channel 4 to keep TT? I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the digs and finds discovered by the crew. Yet time and time again they did it with grace, charm, humor and knowledge. A group of archaeologists have 3 days to discover historical artifacts in different sites around Britain. Well it seems the bean counters got their way. Self (as Prof. Stewart Ainsworth) Show all 219 episodes 1998 Time Team Extras (TV Series documentary) Self - High Worsall, North Yorkshire (1998) . It lost its way because of the producers. Spent many an hour intrigued by the whole show and the people on it. 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. While filming Timesigns, Tim and Mick regularly discussed other ways to bring archaeology to a television audience. Please ressurect it someone soon. Us all. Because of Time Team I now want to become an archeologist. There was a youthful energy to them back them, which was part of the attraction. certainly helped to fill a lot of university places, even if many of those gaining degrees have gone on to other careers. Self - Sanday, Orkney (1998) . Im tired of the idiots that run TV and Im ready for revolution.whos with me!!! And as for the Ooh.. Ah, that be cer monial, that be in the dialect of a village idiot just about summed up the whole package. It brought the money and expertise to investigate sites that would otherwise never have been touched. I wonder how much is wasted on their wages. Channel 4 can go to where it rightly belongs confined to History. We, Yahoo, are part of the Yahoo family of brands. Good job I have the internet to log onto. 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. 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 just love this programme and am very sad to hear that there will be no more. In an interview with the magazine British Archaeology, Professor Aston said he was responding to changes first proposed by producers at Channel 4 in late 2010 before the filming of the series that is currently being aired. 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. Im retired now and would love to get involved in archeology at some level. Sounds as though short sighted suits are at work. My wife was unwell for many years but TT was one of the few TV Shows that she got pleasure from. Certainly the revamp for the 2012 programmes didnt do the programme any favours but another reason for the loss of viewers even before that must have been the lack of a fixed time in the schedules. [emailprotected]. 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. Changing all the staff behind Time Team was a big mistake, but ending it is even bigger. As for the rest of the Team, hats off to you for the great fun and excellent archaeology looking forward to a few TT specials. 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. The only thing that surprises me is that they didnt include a so called comedian. Now, instead of honest archeology, we are going to be swamped with American hystorical programming, in which they assume we all have a 1 second attention span, need constant recaps (at least 4 per 10 minute part) and need it all (badly) acted out by ridiculous, cheap, and hugely inaccurate costumes, backgrounds and language. if thereis any justice in the world they shoud change there minds.TONY MICK PHIL STEWART JOHN MAT RAKSHA BRIGID CARENZA TO MENTION a few. Ive always adored darling Tony Robinson since his days as Baldric, and Mick (RIP), Phil (gotta love him!) DigNation 20 tickets are now on sale: https://digventures.com/projects/dignation-2020/ Can archaeologist see time depth, just by looking? Despite their varied talents and backgrounds it quickly became apparent that the team had a natural chemistry. Stewart Ainswort. Enough said. 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. Sad days. Nevis, West Indies: Part 1: Directed by Graham Dixon. I am watching repeats on Yesterday but hate the constant adverts. Instead Time Teams format was radically overhauled. 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. 2017, My husband and I decided to get rid of our tv when we had 2 young sons. A family programe deleted. There were times when I would have liked to see some longer digs being featured and I would still like to see that, but it seems likely that it will not be Channel 4 doing it. I am going to miss the show. In other words, archaelogy, teamwork, and interaction in that order. I still watch the series on U-tube. C4, please bring back the previous and successful formatting of Time Team. Its prototype was Timesigns, a four-part series that aired in 1991. I was especially interested in the programme on Looe Island chapel as my grandparents once owned Looe Island and I had been there and walked over the chapel remains. 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. Thank you Time Team for all those wonderful hours of thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. Thank you. A brief history of Time Team Time Team 's genesis is a well-rehearsed story. 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. x. Condolences to Micks family, his friends and his colleagues. 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. And the team. Hear, hear! 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. While Time Team unquestionably experienced problems, particularly in its final years, this much-loved show was an astonishing success, propelling modern archaeology into the public conscious as never before. Yes as convicts and bloody proud of it. After reading, in his youth, a book about Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, and visiting the Tower of London, he formed an interest in the history of landscapes.[2]. I cannot believe that there will be no more Time Team, I hope the idiots at channel 4 read this site. It enabled a local group to secure Historic Lottery Fund money to dig the site. perhaps they could do a show that showed what happens as the sites are put back to their natural state. Archaeology enthusiast from Europe and the United States have long discovered the series. I am! I have watched Time Team over the years. (now part of English Heritage) in 1985, and is now head of its Landscape Investigation Team based in York, England. We love Time Team and are astonished at its demise. It was not the first time that a chance conversation with Mick had got someone thinking about television archaeology. Im sorry no-ones put in a word for the lovely Raksha always good-natured, hard working and incredibly knowledgeable. In between programmes, E4 these days uses short clips of things like hillwalking and narrow boats to ridicule the interests of old people. axed is their a petition running ????? This did happen in fact, but the show kept going with Mick Aston and (Sir) Tony Robinson always at the helm. Geophysics gives you that instant picture you can then evaluate. The team are irreplaceable, such a huge whole left in life once the program ended. What happened to Stewart Ainsworth? Not a surprise really when you consider the presence of the suits through all the times that Time Team and others have explored and documented. We may not see its like again. 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. I now watch with complete interest in what is going on in the world of Archaeology and love everything about our great nations past. I dont know. . Loved Time Team and will miss it [endless repeats are not the same but I still find myself watching them anyway]. Time Team RIP does anybody really care what those idiots say surely it is what the public want that matters but no channel 4 has a foolllll running it.. heavan forbid we should have a great program T T ware we think and enjoy it plus it is great family veiwing and may i say also very interresting. YOU HAVE JUST NOT THOUGHT THIS THROUGH! I am not sure who set it up, but you can find it by searching for Time Team FB page. Lets not overlook Public Broadcastng with its excellent programming, either). Less time looking at the scrapping away of mud from a piece of skull. Thank you channel 4 Thank you very very much . and have watched it since the begining. Arrr! At least we can watch past programmes on More 4 on on the On Demand. I dont think a Presenter is supposed to be a devils advocate. Thank you, Time Team!!! Closed minds achieve nothing in life. What screwed up Time Time was poor scheduling two years ago and an attempt to sex up the show and this failed miserably. and Im so grateful to all the Time Team members for a wonderful 20 seasons. I was so sad to find out that it is finishedCould we bring it back? I have loved it from the first episode and who cares if Tony is a little OTT sometimes, he keeps it entertaining and all together. Season 1, aired in 1994, had four episodes, while season 2 followed with five, and season 3 boasted six. Im 77 and was taught English history at boarding school, but Time Team has made it come alive and with so much meaning. Envelopes hidden at strategic points would set challenges along the lines of find the Medieval high street in two hours. No, I didnt ever notice that, was I watching the right show? Time Teams legacy leaves much to celebrate. This once innovative and ground breaking channel has started to descent to almost ITV 1 depths of dumbing down in recent years, it certainly isnt the channel that Jeremy Isaccs created anymore. Obliged to cut evaluation trenches to meet the deadlines of multi-million pound construction projects, the 1990s saw a surge in short-term excavation projects. Best wishes, good luck and Gods speed to the lot of you! I loved the banter between Tony, Phil and Mick and anyone could see they enjoyed their jobs. Maybe the BBC can resurrect this show. Just a thought/ John. Watching the archaeologists and seeing their enthusiasm at even the smallest find,is to me infectious. If those of us who have never met him mourn today, how much more must his friends and family be feeling his passing? Also I dont know how many episodes Ive got left to watch and am dreading the day I realise Im rewatching episodes Ive seen before, though thats still better than pretty much anything else on TV at the moment. It was broadcast over TVO Toronto Canada. 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. Nothing lasts forever, including Time Team. 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. Dont let it stop you Margaret. So why could it not continue on and evolve in 2013 ? Time Team (Collection 2) - 11-DVD Box Set : Tony Robinson, Phil Harding, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth, Mick Aston, Victor Ambrus, Henry Chapman, Ian Powlesland, Matt . My nana came from England in 1901. Close. We didnt do much history at school and we have all learned so much from TT. 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. Thanks to you all. 100% Upvoted. Please bring Time Team back. 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