Yes I agree I miss fresh episode aswell please come back, Yes I agree, the quality of weekend television is terrible give us back some interesting programs, Still record and watch the show love it all I can say is Bring back Time Team. This program has opened up so much of Great Britain to me and I am in love with suach a picturesque landscape and such a rich history. Try Dig Ventures, an online crowd-funded Archaeology site. The format changed and little was really seen of the dig. 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. It was broadcast over TVO Toronto Canada. I never made any money out of it, but a lot of my soul went into it. Its interesting that Ch 4 is dropping a program on history and education, are they really dumbing down to suit a younger age group whose programs contain bad language smut and sex, bad attitudes and a large sense of self. 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. In between programmes, E4 these days uses short clips of things like hillwalking and narrow boats to ridicule the interests of old people. Great format, educational safe family viewing. It is that dull and droll science of Archeology, which when one attends a lecture on the subject, or a program on television normally results in boredom, numbness, squirming, or easy sleep. Is there any posibility of obtaining a copy of this and the program on the barge in the river Rhine. Surely television that inspires interest and development is too good to lose? BRING BACK TIME TEAM PLEASE!!!! i am disappoited time team is to end after its next series a lot of people learnt more about the history of the uk.My grandchildren learnt more about roman history medieval times and other periods in our countries history than at school, http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/tv_time_team_to_reveal_secrets_of_ancient_norfolk_fort_1_1783360. It remains my all time favourite reality TV show and I really miss it. 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. C4, please bring back the previous and successful formatting of Time Team. 2021 CURRENT PUBLISHING LTD - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Id like to know where. 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. We love Time Team and are astonished at its demise. The message was simple: this is local archaeology, it is your archaeology. His father, Ralph, died of a heart attack in 1977 at the age of 57.[2]. Because of Time Team I now want to become an archeologist. He has an excellent track record in a range of organisations in the . 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. The foregoing is an exhausting but entertaining read. The final piece of the jigsaw fell into place during the fledgling Time Teams first episode. Not all of us want mindless reality TV that costs a few bob to present. Later, in a blazing take down of the shows changes in the Western Daily Press, he wrote: There is a lot less archaeological content and a lot more pratting about. IT WILL WORK, IT WILL BE SUPPORTED. Hopefully some other channel will take up the format eventually. I hugely regret the demise of the series and sincerely hope that it will resume or that a similar, archaeology-based series will take its place. Interested in keeping up to date with the latest archaeological finds across Britain? It would be remiss of me not to mention that I was so sorry to read of the passing of Mick Aston. Their ethos has been propagated through the educational system and I feel that its still there (though fading) Your email address will not be published. Channel 4 announced the show would end in 2013. Aston died unexpectedly at his home in the summer of that same year. In South africa we have seen so few TT programs and when in the UK on holiday I imediately check for surren programs to watch. It was a perfunctory end for a television institution that, over two decades, made British archaeology more accessible and popular than ever. I too am upset that this has been axed. It needed to get back to its roots look at the early episodes to see why it was successful. His Uncle, my brother, has to dig up a dig with him when he comes on holiday and he is in there like a professional. Not that I want to live there though am quite happy to be an Australian. Most of these posts hope that the Beeb could resurrect TT somehow, but AN ENORMOUS THANK YOU TO THE CAST AND CREW FOR THE FABULOUS YEARS THEY HAVE GIVEN US. Well it seems the bean counters got their way. Stick to Postman Pat, Time Team is too intellectual for you. Available to view on 4oD (www.channel4.com/programmes/timesigns/4oD), watching it now provides a salutatory lesson in just how revolutionary the Time Team format was. 2003Michelle Johnsonm. 200k an episode? Always worked so hard and made sense of sites that could have remained a mystery. Afterall SA is used to watching loads of rubbish repeats every day!!! 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. We didnt do much history at school and we have all learned so much from TT. He made his first archaeological finds digging up his parents' garden, much to the annoyance of his mother, Elsie. We invited him down to see our newly-completed Saxon hall, based on archaeology from a dig Phil was involved in back in 1974! Perhaps we could have a US/Canada version? I have loved Time Team since episode 1, and have never, not once, missed an episode. TT changed how history programmes are made for UK TV for ever. In other words, archaelogy, teamwork, and interaction in that order. Prior to us, by and large archaeology was something you could only really appreciate if you read books with long words in them. That executive was not recruited from the intellectual highbrow Channel 5 was he? we dont want more programmes that is rubbish there is more than i could even say. My parents watch it. Shots of him in woodland seeking out raw materials for a reconstructed axe allowed the audience to witness the hands-on practical process. I speculate that Mr Bushs rant is based upon nothing more than jealousy over the fact that Mr Harding has obviously learned one more word than him whilst digging those big holes! What a bunch of idiots. Please bring back time team I do really miss watch it please please bring it back. very sad day for us and the time team cast. Ozzy John has it right, Anne Marie put a wall in to TT and it showed in every show afterwards, when you see the fun they all had prior to he joining, she should be ashamed of her achievement in dissolving a great show. Time Team turned this particular builder into a complete archaeological anorak and made one increasingly curmudgeonly old fart in a sweat stain hat the one person in the world Id most love to meet, hang out on a dig with and sink real ales with thereafter! Brought up 3 kids on it. Perhaps if TT had included a Big Brother style segment of drunken, debauched university students or only dug up the gardens of minor celebrity reality tv show contestants theyd still be on the air. Perhaps in gthe future we may have a project for a future Time Team, Channel 4 where did it all go wrong? To an incredible all round team we thank you and to Phil damn we will miss you! What on earth is going on and who is in charge of these moronic decisions! Thank you all so verymuch for what you have accomplished. Yes, Phil can still shift the muck but check out his work on lithics studies and you might change your opinion. Aston, an archeologist who had lectured at Oxford and was made a professor of Landscape Archeology at Bristol University in the mid-90s, played a pivotal role in bringing archeology to the nation, after teaming up with TV producer Tim Taylor in 1988. 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. Thanks Julia and Lizbeth. Coincidentally, digging within a tight timeframe echoed contemporary changes underway in the profession. It is sad to read the mechanics of its demise and, worse, to see it played out on screen. If you had to justify the value of television as a medium that can inform as well as entertain, Time Team would be the perfect example. Much better than most of the rubbish we get now that there are so many channels chasing adverts & broadcasting ever increasing repeats. Totally gutted Time Team is going. Dont let it stop you Margaret. Am now in the process of buying the DVDs. I wish I could study with Mick Ashton. Biggest mistake ever! You are going to be missed more than most of us realise. If ever there is a petition to bring this back, count me in. I am appalled. One only has to consider the creative arc of Channel Four itself, to have noticed that its a shadow of what it set out to be and frankly, those who run it now should be ashamed of themselves, relieved from duty, and prevented from working in TV ever again. I am looking forward to the Village Dig series, when it eventually comes to the small screen. That is, the irritating new team members, the irritating clanging noise when Tony narrates and the increasingly less time spent in the trenches. Yes/No? Its prototype was Timesigns, a four-part series that aired in 1991. Your sorrow will be eased by the sight of a few old, friendly faces. There were pivotal Roman digs, forensic archaeology, dendrochronology (thats tree-dating), elements of geophysics, all distilled into something that the viewing public could still get a handle on despite their complexities, thanks mainly to the stories that were being unearthed. RIP Time Team. Miss TT so much. The onscreen introduction of team members and their specialist skills was a hangover from a time when participants would have varied from week to week, rather than coalescing into a core group. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); We are largest Know-How Listing website, total [total_posts] questions already asked and get answers instantly! What a bore YOU are! What are you going to replace it with? We will miss Tony, Mick and Phil and the team. Indeed, Stuart Ainsworth and Helen Geake had become increasingly sidelined, as was illustrator Ambrus, in favour of spiffy computer graphics. How very sad. Great news that it is ending now we can have even more programs about yobs drinking abroad, crappy makeovers, the life of white van drivers and buying houses that cost 250,000 or more. Phil had never sought or anticipated recognition for his public service and this was a family first. NEVER. He also took part in the various spin-off series such as Time Team Extra (1998), Time Team Digs (2002) and Time Team Live. Self - Local Expert 1 episode, . From the mid-1970s, he worked on excavations in Berkshire, Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire and the Isle of Wight for the Department of the Environment (DOE). I want Time Team brought back. And there is much yet to dig and poke at historically in the world, let alone Great Britain. Pity arise Sir Phil???? Copyright Brand Exponents 2017. Whilst not filming Phil still works as a field archaeologist with Wessex Archaeology, and has been involved in a project listing all known Palaeolithic sites in Britain. Unfortunately my DVD recording did not work. Here we chart the highs and lows of a revolutionary format that aimed to bring archaeology to the people. The time team has brought history, archaeology, geophys and a devoted team of professionals into my life. Spent many an hour intrigued by the whole show and the people on it. Perhaps searching can help. 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. These are absolutely awesome! Time Team is a British television programme that originally aired on Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014. What an absolutely stupid decision to ax Time Team! From jan Marie jaser. I have no idea which series I am watching, I think it must be a mixture as Tonys beer belly ebbs and falls and Phils hair waxes and wains, though Mick never seems to have changed. However over the years TT seem to have worked on sites that have been known about for a long time, but have remained unexplored for whatever reason. Would hydrogen chloride be a gas at room temperature? He should have stuck to presenting instead of trying to take command. And key graphic purporting to show the significant shift in building alignments between two phases did not actually do that but simply repeated the original layout! It seems we cant find what youre looking for. John and his team must have walked miles. 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. While I wont be involved in the new sites, I was delighted to accept the role of honorary patron of the Time Team project. I found TR irritating at times but accepted him as part of the show. Behind-the-scenes insights into how Time Team is produced, including regular production updates, Q&As, and polls to help us shape new content Exclusive access to occasional Patreon-only live streamed events Access to interactive 3D models of finds, trenches and landscapes General Time Team support Time Team Project Supervisor $9.50 / month I entirely agree with the article it was definately the loss of Mick and the two new ones that ryined it for me and I have always loved it!! Your email address will not be published. In 2014. They were like a 70s open university program with their hairstyles and clothes. I now watch with complete interest in what is going on in the world of Archaeology and love everything about our great nations past. Ive enjoyed watching all the archeologists old and new & think Tony Robinson is a great presenter. C4 what are you doing timeteam is a great show now u r going to put more rubbish on like big brother I know it not on your channel no more what a shame timeteam will b missed go on bbc take it on, Timeteam what a great show now we got to put up with shows like splash and x factor what is going on with tv now god help. Just heard about the axing of Time Team what a shame! Phil's appointment follows an extensive search and interviews with a very strong field of candidates. When did time team end? 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. It was this show that gave me the inspiration to study history and I will really miss it. I first came across it a few years back while channel surfing Hey I know him thats Baldrick. In addition, he has appeared in episodes of Meet the Ancestors (2003) and Chris Moyles' Quiz Night (2009). Trained on excavations with the Bristol University Extra Mural Department and other bodies from 1966, he has been a professional archaeologist since 1971. 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. very sad day in T V HISTORY. 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. 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. Ive watched TT since it began & never missed an episode, I was in the 20s age group that they are now trying to attract when it started. A unique combination of expertise, enthusiasm and humour. YOU HAVE JUST NOT THOUGHT THIS THROUGH! 20 years is a long time in television. certainly helped to fill a lot of university places, even if many of those gaining degrees have gone on to other careers. Will you still be able to buy Godiva chocolate? 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. Channel 4 has lost one viewer it wont get back. September 7, 2014Time Team / Final episode date. The main loss will be the delight we have got shouting bullshit-ware at the screen as Paul Blinkhorn announces a small lump of stone is in reality early Anglo Saxon teaset. Time Team: Created by Tim Taylor. i like everything about it. People seem to enjoy them. Screening 13 episodes a year, as well as live digs and specials the programme was ubiquitous. My nana came from England in 1901. As a young boy, he became fascinated with the Stone Age. Thanks Guys! The last series was disappointing without Helen and Stuart who were replaced by people without half their expertise. 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]. However I would contact Channel Four to find out when they will be repeating it again and maybe arrange to record the programmes. The big step-change in output came between series 5 and 6 in 1998 and 1999 when the annual number of episodes leapt from 8 to 13. Its amazing. Time Team was on television, but not of it. BRING IT BACK. VALE Time Team, a wonderful Viking/ Roman pyre is burning and we are drinking ourselves to oblivion. We are shocked to read that Time Team is finished. I will miss my bit of kulcha. I for one will not watch any new episodes. RIP Time Team. Im sorry to see that TT is folding though. This has to be one of the biggest tragedies of modern television times. It will be interesting to see how the new Village Dig series comes across on TV. This informative, interesting program has long been a favourite amongst all ages of our family. This is true I dont go to bed without at least watching one episode I would too love to get involved but at 67 a bit too old. Spent time today discussing post-holes with a friend, others around thought we were crazy, but thats what Time Team was all about. This article is 10 years old but like a spoiler. Series Producer and creator of Time Team, Tim Taylor says, "They did it! Who knows,but hopefully in years to come we might all see a reunion? anyway the technology is facinating and makes history come alive. Phil Harding is Time Teams resident trench-excavator. I loved the banter between Tony, Phil and Mick and anyone could see they enjoyed their jobs. Mick Aston was a great British eccentric; an atheist whose lifes work was medieval monasticism, an anarchist who for many decades loyally fulfilled the labyrinthine requirements of his university and British television, and a grumpy old curmudgeon with the kindest of hearts and a great capacity for friendship, he said. I was devastated to hear of the demise of this wonderful programme, but once they made the decision to bring in the awful Mary Ann Ochota as a co-presenter, the programme was doomed. The worst thing they did was sex it up. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode featured a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in lay terms. On yesterday's episode of Dr. Phil, actor Terry Crews discussed his addiction to pornography and his relationship with his wife, Rebecca, of 28 . Archaeologist Phil Harding has paid tribute to his Time Team colleague Mick Aston who has died at the age of 66. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the digs and finds discovered by the crew. Dont judge based on the rubbish you get over there. The focus groups of today, the council chambers of yesteryear; all determined to make their mark, put their talent on show. I cannot understand why you are axing it!!? While I mourn the loss of Time Team, I think its death is a natural, organic thing that was simply going to happen sooner or later. It seems there was no need for one before Womens Studies and all those other nonwhite studies. I have only recently discovered TT and am currently watching 4 episodes a day, courtesy of More 4 and Discovery History channels, and am utterly devastated to learn that it has been axed. 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. It was season 19 that changed everything. What about the number of times they were wrong? (all good things must come to an end). In the country you have more sense of the spirit of a place. 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. , Totally agree have enjoyed this programme since it started. I download everything I can from the internet and watch on American PBS stations when I can find it. Written by Phil Harding and John Pooley (of The John Pooley Consultancy) the guide 'Resource Efficiency and Corporate Responsibility - Managing Change' was first produced by the Government Office for the South West (Sustainability & Environmental Technologies Team . Will there ever be a time when I wouldnt watch Time Team repeats? Taylor says, It would have been great to show Basil Brown the new technology, which enables us to see 3D images of the archaeology underground, allowing us to precisely target our excavation., Taylor continues: This dig signals the start of a fascinating new chapter for Time Team. Southern Gaulish Samian ware, or Green Glaze, 14th Century. Observing how so many, different, recondite specialty fields come together paleopalynography. While viewing it might be a bittersweet experience we should enjoy the moment while we can. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. First there was the short-lived show 'Time Signs, which then evolved into 'Time Team in 1994, with 'Blackadder star Tony Robinson on presenting duties. I feel really, really angry about it, he told British Archeology magazine. He worked initially for the Southampton City Council Archaeology Unit, combining this with five seasons of excavations (19721976) run by the British Museum at the Neolithic flint mines of Grimes Graves, Norfolk. Spoilt in the end by Fixing something that want bust. In 2012, Aston announced he was leaving the show after criticising format changes that focused less on archaeological activities. My second eldest is 18, and we only watch one program together as our interests are so different (that would be Time Team). While the allure of such sites created a powerful television spectacle, it also marked a move away from the programmes humble local archaeology origins. Stewart has always been my top hero too, although I loved everyone without exception till the changes happened. There just isn't any of the stuff to dig up anymore". Prof Aston was on long-running show for 19 . Regards, Paul Tressel [emailprotected], Time Team was a massive part of my life, Im still watching it even now on more 4 :O. Pay per view TV? Even after its star began to wane Time Team remained popular. Stopping TT is just another step in the dumbing down of TV and radio. Also it being on an increasingly miserable Channel (4) did it no favours whatsoever. Research digs usually ran for weeks if not months, and it was questioned whether anything approaching responsible archaeology could be achieved in a mere three days. Didnt like the changes either to the team it change the dynamics of the program but kept watching anyway. Sad days. Archeology isnt aloof anymoreTT built a bridge between laymen and pros! Joining you at your virtual pyre and raising a glass to Mick Aston! Off now to have a quick dig in my garden then on to Salisbury to stalk Phil Harding.intelligence soooo sexy. why isn't phil harding in the new time teambt whole home disc keeps disconnecting. But the format changes angered Aston, and he soon quit the show. So sad to see my favourite programme on Channel 4 being axed. And what lies behind the strange decision to give us two rehashes of old material at the end of the 19th season? I agree with the above sentiments, get the brilliant crew back. In mid October 2012 an all-points bulletin was emailed to Time Team staff. Boy, 15, is convicted of murdering software engineer who was stabbed in the chest after a row at an Asda supermarket. And I really enjoy watching Time Team's Phil Harding explains why Waterloo Uncovered is such an important project, during our first excavation at Hougoumont Farm in 2015. Not any more. In February 2012, Prof Aston, writing in the Western Daily Press, explained his decision to quit Time Team a year earlier, saying it was because Channel 4 had altered its format and the show had . IT DID NOT NEED JAZZING UP. Whilst on holiday, I was very keen to spend a day or so, if possible, with the Time Team crew wherever they might be shooting. This is true Reallity Television. It led to an appreciation of just how much information could be quickly gleaned from comparatively modest trenching. I think Phil is a genius at being able to read the ground he is digging up. It has taught and shown me so much, I have a wonderful interest in archaeology thanks to this show, and loved hearing and seeing our past. It makes me chief superfan and supporter all armoury in our shared desire to inspire and stimulate interest in archaeology at all levels., Its great to be back! says Taylor. Thanks. Try local volunteering opportunities, if you can still get out in the garden and walk and talk and are willing to learn then it will be great, and you will make lots of new friends of all ages. What is the matter not retro enough for you ! I am sooooo sad that it is going and so is my family and friends..I would like to know what every one is going to do now our friends we see every week,I love the banter between everyone but no more. Please ressurect it someone soon. Mick Aston; Died: 24 June 2013 (aged 66) Winscombe, Somerset, England . time team r.i.p. The idea/format needs to be revived by BBC4. well done on ending one of the best programs on tele. Tim confirmed they have not found a new presenter yet, however many of the . Ace Custom: Phil Harding uses a personal shovel that he's modified to suit his needs. Come on BBC, take up where C4 left off PLEASE!! You were apparently watching a different show than we were. 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