It seems there was no need for one before Womens Studies and all those other nonwhite studies. Maybe it was better to end the show before they replaced the entire cast with celebrities from TOWIE. Lee. i never knew this show was available as the colonies never mentioned it. Good job I have the internet to log onto. 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. I now watch with complete interest in what is going on in the world of Archaeology and love everything about our great nations past. That executive was not recruited from the intellectual highbrow Channel 5 was he? This feature was published in Current Archaeology issue274. The Time Team go to the West Indies and the island of Nevis. these idiots decide to change it.i hope they are happy boring peaple.please bring it back. I do not know he was pretty good towards the end at his archeology. You should be ashamed of yourselves, especially the way you have treated Mick Aston after all those years of dedicated service. Who is Mary Ann & what does she bring to the table? Team Team gang were so funny with their understanding of each other and professional approach to their subject, their knowledge of it all and portrayal to the audience was so entertaining, and Tony added an open view to a usually flat subject, with his level headed approach to academics and gave it life. Ive watched TT for years now and thoroughly enjoyed it. I wonder whether the viewing figures took in the worldwide audience I know lots of people watched and enjoyed it here in Australia. The Twitter page has been great up to now. But when he returned to Britain, Tony found the studios equally intransient. Ive binge watched Time Team on YouTube and up to S17. 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. So thank you time team I hope someone with a brain brings it back. I enjoyed all the archaeologists and presenter Tony Robinson. Brilliant. Mick mentioned that he had recently missed a train and, having a couple of hours to kill, decided to explore. 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. However, as a viewer I hugely enjoyed the opportunity to share in the Teams excitement. The last series was disappointing without Helen and Stuart who were replaced by people without half their expertise. Arrr! I generally watch one episode a night, but on weekends I sometimes binge watch until my eyeballs beg for mercy. What is wrong with older viewers? [emailprotected]. TV is going downhill faster & faster. 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. Stranger things have happened! I was introduced to Time Team when visiting relatives in Selby and have loved this family of buffs who presented the UK to the world at large. Many bad decisions for all the wrong reasons. I never saw any of these shows until a week ago when I stumbled over them on youtube. It has become a staple in our family, even with the ABC running older series in high-rotation it beats the rest of the 6pm options hands down, even in repeat mode. We will miss Tony, Mick and Phil and the team. and have watched it since the begining. My wife was unwell for many years but TT was one of the few TV Shows that she got pleasure from. The implementation of Planning Policy Guidance 16 in 1990 enshrined archaeology within the development process and paved the way for todays professional units. Tags: Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth on How To See Time In The Landscape. Find out more here. Im sorry no-ones put in a word for the lovely Raksha always good-natured, hard working and incredibly knowledgeable. | Phoenix the Dreamer, https://digventures.com/2013/03/tools-down-for-time-team-raksha-dave-on-the-end-of-an-era-and-her-new-adventure/, Current Archaeology Award Winners for 2023 announced, The peaceful Neolithic is dead: the dawn of agriculture coincided with rising violence, Scars of early Civil War battle found at Coleshill Manor. Loved Time Team and will miss it [endless repeats are not the same but I still find myself watching them anyway]. 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. Working with the Fiennes family brought home the connection with Sutton Hoo and Ralph Fiennes character, Basil Brown in the recent Netflix film, The Dig. Time Team was the product (exclusively) of Channel 4 a commercial TV-only company that was created in the early 80s. Shades of the quiz-show concept do survive into early episodes of Time Team proper. Judged a misfire by Channel 4, it could have been the end. This is not the present series I wonder where you are watching? They have onbly made a couple of mistakes, 1 was letting Mick go and the other was axing Time Team. British Television just one more nail in your coffin. NON of these corporations do they think we are all idiots who will do as they as told like little children in school!!!!! Not everyone takes change happily., The comments below have not been moderated, By 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. Tony, Mick,and Phil will be missed. Much better than most of the rubbish we get now that there are so many channels chasing adverts & broadcasting ever increasing repeats. In terms of Cotswolds villas Time Team has probably covered more of them than anyone else. And as others have said, perhaps it could be resurrected on BBC4??? BBCs own channels will have BBC prefixing the number and anything not by the BBC will obviously by without this prefix. 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. This has been one of our few favourite programs; not only has it been informative, but it has been entertaining in the best-possible sense. I dont know. 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. 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! We NEED Time Team. If they wont reinstate Time Team ,then why not release All episodes in a DVD BOX set . In a nutshell, that is the most relevant comment I have read on here. I hope more episodes are made available on video! I know more today of English history and Roman occupation than I ever did before. I suppose theres nothing wrong with her per se, but her presence is utterly unnecessary. I too wonder why they stopped it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Save Time Team Campaign is taking off really fast now, over 1,500 signatures & support from celebrity. You wonder what kind of palsy comes over TV programers when they occasionally axe the best shows, shows with strong, solid substance!!! I was so sad to find out that it is finishedCould we bring it back? Yes, Tony R was sometimes (often?) I cannot understand why you are axing it!!? Fortunately, it wasnt. Long gone are the back garden digs. 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. Such a great programme. I have watched every episode from season 1, some many times. The villa is a tantalising prospect a grand building almost as big as Buckingham Palace. I am not sure who set it up, but you can find it by searching for Time Team FB page. 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. We are shocked to read that Time Team is finished. As others have said, lets hope that the B.B.C. Im the guy who set it up, iv got the page on Facebook, Twitter and the main website that i run. Such a shame a beautiful show as this is axed and they show such dribble as reality tv shows blah yuk. Please, please would someone bring the show back, This is just another example of Managements old adage: Its perfect; lets New and Improve it Ive got to say I think he handled the shows well. For those too grief stricken to cope right now, subscribe to the youtube video blog of Dig Village. I made this ages ago and thought someone here MIGHT like it? 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. And Ive always thought tony was perfectly great as the show presenter, interested and fun, a joy to watch. Also it being on an increasingly miserable Channel (4) did it no favours whatsoever. Margie, NZ Bringing history to life is far from an easy task but the combination of the experts knowledge, Tony Robinsons ability to act as the interested layman asking questions that the audience wanted to know the answers to, as well as the interaction and camaraderie between the members of the team I felt worked really well. 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. Tony was constantly disagreeing with the archaeologists, and for some unexplained reason there was loud ballet music all but obliterating the commentary. It was one of the most brilliant Programmes ever on TV. My absolute favorite TV program! What a lot we learned. The cast will be sorely missed. Tim Taylor devised the name Time Team, and in 1992 a pilot episode was filmed in Dorchester-on-Thames. Such speed was certainly not ideally suited to showcase all of the techniques available to modern archaeologists. Time Team return, Time Team is coming back, Following the successful launch of a fan-led Patreon campaign in December, Time Team has now confirmed what could be the first of many digs. And now it has been pulled, left to the re-marketing of DVD, and the Internet. Strata indeed! I have watched and enjoyed Time Team for many years I am one of the oldies watching but my children grandchildren and great grandchildren are all avid viewers I feel the makers of this program had no perception of its impact on different generations when they set out to close the program down. Channel 4 has just axed the best show on tv wont be watching channel 4 again, There will always be someone who knows what we like we to watch. Channel 4 is a crude simulacrum of its original self and I agree that BBC 4 would be TTs natural home.Id love to see the old Time Team reunited Ill live in hope! Teatime 26: Stewart Ainsworth - Return to Nevis 14,215 views Premiered Oct 11, 2020 Time Team Teatime: Session 26 - As Black History Month continues in the UK, we catch up with Stewart. It was season 19 that changed everything. Thank you for educating and entertaining me over the years. Gutted! Gee I feel gutted. Slower paced, Timesigns has Mick talking directly to the camera in a style more akin to a history documentary or Open University broadcast. 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. Is this why some of the Adverts are much better than most of the currant programmes. It also produces some amazing factual programmes to expand our knowledge and it is extremely worrying that the latter are being sacrificed for moronic programmes like Big Fat Gypsy Wedding which add nothing to our cultural enlightenment. This show has been a wonderful joy to follow over the years, and I shall so miss it. With Season 20 airing next year, and a series of one-off specials running into 2014, there is still new Time Team on the way. 2012 was a very low point and i half expected it to end right then. 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? It led to an appreciation of just how much information could be quickly gleaned from comparatively modest trenching. if only someone could afford too get all thecast back and go on channel 2 or 5 any ware but not on 4 .. who ever made up there minds to get rid off TT I HOPE there bosses can see the error they are makeing.very sad to see it go. Much as I still love watching them (though, annoyingly, More 4 often shows the same programme a week later), I can hardly bear to think there will be no more new ones. I loved it and speaking as an Hibernian, the only thing I found mildly irritating was Tonys obsession with all things Roman. If ever there is a petition to bring this back, count me in. i record all the T T i can i have brought T t dvd. And to lose Mick Aston well, that was it for us. It was responsible for me going on a dig and having a great time. We range in age from 8yrs to 82yrs and have loved Tony, Mick, Phil, Carenza, Helen, Faye, geophys John and most of all Stuart. Enjoyed Tony and the whole crew, felt like u were part of the dig and part of the crew, they were all like family. Charlies comments would carry more weight if the spelling was correct. Ridiculous. I am an American who did real dirt archeology thirty years ago.I dug at at three historic sites and one protohistoric site in East Central Illinois. I hope there are more DVDs on the programs will be made as I have every current one at the moment. I cant believe how much I have learned during Covid lock down because of Time Team. Its always sad when a long running and reputable series ends. I dont understand what purpose that serves, but there you have it. Yes please BBC4 or anyone sensible Time Team will always be popular if you listen to Tony (yes I am a fan) Mick and Phil and Helen (yes I am an even bigger fan of these guys). The past shows took it for granted that the viewers were intelligent and did not need someone (other than Tony I love him) to ask questions in his humorous fashion. About the same time I discovered TT and became a dedicated viewer and have viewed all their programmes thanks to More Four. A good friend of mine was a guest archaeologist on several T.T programmes and it was my good fortune to go along on production. Its brilliant and helps this Singapore based Brit to feel less far away. In 2014. The site, discovered by historian and metal detectorist Keith Westcott after years of research, could be one of the biggest villas uncovered in recent times. 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. 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