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Channel 4s loss their gain :) He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. the cast were so friendly to each other and the show was so intresting and made you think off our past . In relation to earlier comments concerning Mr Robinson, all I can say is that if he was patronising us then it must have been a residual echo of Baldrics most cunning plan. Shame I can now only watch it at 5am on the History channel. . I would echo it completely. now I rely on repeats. Posted by 27 days ago. I am watching as many of the daily episodes as I can on New Zealands History Channel.It makes me nostalgic for the British history and archeological sites. 2012 was a very low point and i half expected it to end right then. 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. 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. I also never felt patronised by Tony Robinson, and loved the way he frequently asked questions that the audience would have wanted to know themselves. Is there any posibility of obtaining a copy of this and the program on the barge in the river Rhine. Indeed, the only affectation on Time Team was Micks famous stripy jumper. How many people can look back on a twenty years span of such a masterful contribution to human culture? I agree Shiela, a long read but entertaining, and an indication of TTs popularity. , updated Ive binge watched Time Team on YouTube and up to S17. RIP MICK ASTON. This biography article of a United Kingdom academic is a stub. Bringing in that awful woman for the last series was the straw that broke the camels back. Finding it was to completely end, not, as Id hoped, to revert to its more successful format I was quite heart broken. Spent time today discussing post-holes with a friend, others around thought we were crazy, but thats what Time Team was all about. It was an opening into a different world that gave me hope that THIS one can be sorted out ! Desperate for a good documentary to watch over a late dinner, I discovered Tony Robinsons Time Team special on the Mesolithic and Doggerland. Immediately, I was hooked. Alarm bells began to ring for us when Mary-Anne appeared it seemed to coincide with a dumbing-down of the show. youtu.be/rlKmrT. Shame on Chanel 4! I and my husband have learned so much over the years (and are still learning): not only about archeaology itself, but about interpreting architecture, landscapes and social history, to name but three. I will watch Time Team episodes as long as I last. Were currently watching the last episodes, with the delightfully enthusiastic Francis Pryor, on ABC TV in Melbourne, and we love em, even if there arent always lots of finds. Despite his sore loss, he did the right thing to walk out. This is not the present series I wonder where you are watching? CHANNEL 4, YOU ARE A COMPLETE BUNCH OF IDIOTS!!!. We are saddened to hear that a great T.V show which entertained and informed is being axed. Am now in the process of buying the DVDs. I watch time team on more 4 Carenza Lewis, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake and geophys genius John Gater will all be returning and are excited about the new sites. Most of what I feel about the demise of TT has already been said here. But when he returned to Britain, Tony found the studios equally intransient. I never made any money out of it, but a lot of my soul went into it. I wonder whether the viewing figures took in the worldwide audience I know lots of people watched and enjoyed it here in Australia. I thought the 2013 series was an improvement on the 2012 series, but tonights episode was disappointing. Rather than targeting the palaces and castles of the rich and famous, individual episodes modestly sought to solve simple, local questions. The Time Team go to the West Indies and the island of Nevis. Time team is irreplaceable. Interesting, in these days where we (oldies) are not responding to adverts as much as the supposed young and affluent to think of alternative crowd-sourcing models for financing programs that we like. 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. In the country you have more sense of the spirit of a place. will take time, i was successfull on a Campaign on another show before so i know what i have to do, The Campaign is to have a new lease of life on another tv channel. 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. I regularly tape the programmes as it is shown on a variety of stations, history,yesterday, and channel 4 being some. What a bore YOU are! Over the years has shown archaeology all round UK. I agree with you . | 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. The money was well spent, and today only five Time Team sites remain unpublished a record that shames many UK units and academics. Start a letter writing campaign to bring it back. Hear, hear! The huge plus for archaeology in general has been the raising of the profile of a branch of science that prior to this program was the province of a fairly small group of people. Great memories sadly missed. Maybe one day she will say sorry to us all. Miss Ochota, 30, holds a masters degree in archaeology and anthropology from Cambridge University. Now British television can be as dumbed down and offensive as American television has become. Mick, Tony Phil, Carenza Lewis, etc bring it back as there are no current programs that come close. We also miss Stuart very much. Season 1, aired in 1994, had four episodes, while season 2 followed with five, and season 3 boasted six. 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. I love the show, and I have also fallen in love wit Faye Simpson. And anyway, why would we want Channel 4 to keep TT? The lesson is that if you have a slightly faded masterpiece, dont try and touch it up with the aid of novices. Channel Four seem to be missing a trick that gthe BBC would have undoubtedly have profited from by issuing DVDs of the most important digs over the years. In 1994 January 16th until 2012.rip time team along with mick Aston Are any available at the moment does anyone know? May be he could be a Lord? This was the best educational programme that I looked forward to every week and also all the repeats that were broadcast on more 4. 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. Its brilliant and helps this Singapore based Brit to feel less far away. 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. 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. 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. I am deeply sisappointed that time team is now defunct its one programme thst I really love I felt that I could learn a little bit about my ancestors in the uk, C4 the tv channel run by lack of imagination. While viewing it might be a bittersweet experience we should enjoy the moment while we can. Pay per view TV? Gutted! http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html. I think Tony is a good fit for this program. Think again C4, as someone who is 40 years outside your target audience, all axing this program has done is make me switch channels, so demographically relevant or not you have simply lost another viewer and surely viewer numbers are more important than some misguided attempt to only appeal to a certain age group? 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! Oh Dear. It was so pathetic, TT definitely doesnt need to have its memory sullied by association with the puerile crassness of the modern C4. Great format, educational safe family viewing. 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. 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. This article is 10 years old but like a spoiler. 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. If there had been a mission statement for the show during those early days, it would have been the democratisation of archaeology. Time Team was on television, but not of it. We only recently discovered the Time Team show and rush to ensure we dont miss a show. I was sad to see Carenza leave and sad to hear of the death of Robin Bush. 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. (3 different history channels, Discovery channel, Travel channel, Military channel, National Geographic channel the list goes on and on. I will miss it and them dreadfully. Time team seemed to be excavating at the behest of large bodies like English Heritage and the National Trust, not some amateurs or local individuals. Time team has been a part of tv watching since its beginning . 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! You talk rubbish mate! So we manage to get something enjoyable, which at the same time is also useful. But for me the real genius is Stewart who can look at a landscape and tell you what it was like hundreds of years ago. I have watched Time Team over the years. Save Time Team Campaign is taking off really fast now, over 1,500 signatures & support from celebrity. Tony Robinson seems an entirely likeable guy and does his presenting job with good humour and humility. There is a petition already, on Facebook, which is not the ideal place. Sad that time team is no longer , they should go back to how it all started , dont mess with what is ok . I feel really, really angry about it. Surely this cant really be the end?? The team also included the likes of surveyors Stewart Ainsworth and Henry Chapman, illustrator Victor Ambrus, and fellow archaeologists Helen Geake and Phil Harding, and gradually the show. 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. What a great show. Dont judge based on the rubbish you get over there. How amazing to see the history of England being unearthed. I watch any that come on now.. saw one yesterday about the digging our of the 2 world war planes in the bogs.. The programme has no need for eye candy, no need to try to attract yuppies: archaeology is like genealogy interest grows (although not exclusively) with age. And now our children and grandchildren watch the programme but not for long now. You are going to be missed more than most of us realise. Completely unable to absorb and assimilate well presented information in an entertaining style, and you completely misread the ironic style of Tony Robinson. I remember John Gater and his long beard. This biographical article related to British television is a stub. I am a 57 year old Aussie and I watched this program every episode I could see. I learn so much. 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. I am still watching episodes on Yesterday that Id somehow missed. http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html We are a large audience. 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. The changes proved too much, too fast, and viewing figures crashed to 700,000. When . We have watched it form the start and enjoyed it on various level hugely. I feel like i know all of the presenters personally they had that effect on people.I watched it evolve over the years and couldnt wait for each knew series. The Aussie fans are disappointed too that T T will be finishing up. Executive producer Philip Clarke said the current series had introduced Miss Ochota and archaeologist Alex Langlands. 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. Strata indeed! 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. Phil is fantastic as he has always been. If this were a BBC programme, then this alone would be worth the license fee. 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. But once the old hands started to disappear the magic went too. Buggering about with scheduling times has buggered many a decent tv series. Yes, it was a great show, but its over now. By Tamara Cohen for the Daily Mail All the best shows are taken off and all we are left with is the boring and so untrue Archers. 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. No other archaeology programmes on any channels tackle the wide range of sites and periods that TT did or inspired many to become keen amateurs or to start a career in archaeology. He said: We were very sorry to see Mick go, and he leaves an extraordinary legacy. For those too grief stricken to cope right now, subscribe to the youtube video blog of Dig Village. Sad days. What a shame to see TT let go. The team of Tony, Mick, Phil, Stuart, John, Carenza, Brigid, Guy, etc etc filled me with warmth and satisfaction. His technique fostered a sense of immediacy for viewers, placing them on the trench edge when discoveries happened and making them privy to key discussions. Ok BBC4, its time for you to take Time Team. Cliche good looking, middle-class presenters who appear somewhat dull in enthusiasm. This is no good for those at work or school. Meanwhile Tonys role transformed from a quiz master to translator of all things archaeological for a general audience. I am Canadian-born but living near Atlanta, Geogia, and travel to the UK often. 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. Phil annoys me at times, by always stealing the limelight when lesser mortals had done the hard graft,but, the highlights were when lesser mortals (IE Raksha, Matt or Ian) had exciting finds and were allowed to show.Victors drawings were more lively and thought provoking than the boring computer graphics.I will start to miss the programme in two years time, when we finally complete seies 20. 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. The regular team also included: [6] Stewart Ainsworth, landscape investigator; John Gater and Chris Gaffney, archaeological geophysicists; Henry Chapman, surveyor; and Victor Ambrus, illustrator . I read a number of the same comments over and over here, and some are quite valid. Eat umble pie you are having a laff. HATE all the crap American shows taking over the tv. The thrill of time running out also engaged viewers, and Time Teams popularity was rewarded with increasingly longer series. 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. The explanation for the end of Time Team is that the people who run Channel 4 are all about 12 years old. Were currently watching the series (2012?) Agree 100%, they should have left it well alone. What about the number of times they were wrong? So sad to see the demise of TT. too, although not often. I agree entirely. Time Team was the product (exclusively) of Channel 4 a commercial TV-only company that was created in the early 80s. 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 cant believe how much I have learned during Covid lock down because of Time Team. Yes, Upton Castle was a bit of a mess in terms of style, but it held our interest. The students became instant converts to the program. It lost its way because of the producers. Stewart has always been my top hero too, although I loved everyone without exception till the changes happened. I record episodes that I cannot watch on the day. very sad day in T V HISTORY. Its a wonder one isnt constantly tripping over roman floor tiles and Anglo-Saxon wine jugs every time one steps out of ones door. For me Time Team was a cultural oasis in a desert of dumb and lazy TV. Changing all the staff behind Time Team was a big mistake, but ending it is even bigger. Best of all, the cameras were rolling to capture the archaeologists euphoria as the geophysical plot emerged from a bulky printer in the back of the survey vehicle. I will think of you when I am digging in a field this afternoon, that you once dug, and bury a memento in your memory. It worked before, if you think about it. certainly helped to fill a lot of university places, even if many of those gaining degrees have gone on to other careers. Youve said it all, I totally agree! Big Bang (repeat), Simpsons (repeat), Simpsons (another repeat), Maid in Manhattan (good grief!). I would be very happy, if it was revived. Less time looking at the scrapping away of mud from a piece of skull. What a hero! 20+ years is a remarkable feat for a television program, and this isnt Dr. Who either. R.I.P. I WONDER what rubbish they will put on instead. They were digging Roman ruins in someones back garden and explaining in detail what they were doing and what it told them hooked then and there. Lively interpersonal dynamics, celebratory meals and wine, inviting locals to learn more about the world around them back in time, diverse resources and approaches coordinating and appreciating each other- some reading. While the yet-to-air season 20 promises a return to more-traditional Time Team values, it was too late. I have just realised that time team is to be axed by c4. Time Team! Mick mentioned that he had recently missed a train and, having a couple of hours to kill, decided to explore. Prior to us, by and large archaeology was something you could only really appreciate if you read books with long words in them. What is the matter not retro enough for you ! After a career as a professional geologist I researched for a PhD at the Palace of Knossos on Crete. Channel 4 should never have discarded such a treasure. I feel sure we havent heard the last either. NEVER. There are DVDs, some available on Amazon uk. And now it has been pulled, left to the re-marketing of DVD, and the Internet. Whats wrong with a passing reference to global warming unless you are an eccentric climate change denier? Sad to hear the show is coming to an end but hopefully repeat episodes will frequent our screens for a long time to come. Little surprise she became a history teacher. I really loved the show and learned so much. Eight years after the long-running archaeology series stopped filming, Time Team is set to return with two new excavations scheduled for later this year. ! Just been reading all the comments, and a lot of sensible thinhs have been said, and a few stupid ignorant ones as well. Its a shame we didnt see you and the team doing more international locations. Is this why some of the Adverts are much better than most of the currant programmes. On the other hand, all good things come to an end. What a great detective. I have enjoyed Time Team from day one. Dues have been paid, so get Sir Tony back, along with some younger faces and writing talent, and get cracking on a new TIME TEAM !!! This was the best educational programme that looked forward to every week and also all the repeats that were broadcast on more 4. 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! Poor. A thoroughly good bunch of people with a true PASSION for their subject ! Thank you all at Time Team for a wonderful 20 years. I assume it will be more imported American rubbish or so called comedy. . 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. What will Ch4 spend its money on now, even more American imports? 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. Such a shame its being axed at a time its claimed the viewing figures are at its highest make little sense to me. It must have been amazingly hard to pull together the locations, permits, and logistics, add the art, historical research, music and local involvement, let alone process the dig sites. Shades of the quiz-show concept do survive into early episodes of Time Team proper. I have watched Time Team from day one, and now my 11 and 9 year old daughters love to watch it, in fact my youngest commented she would like to be an archaeologist when she grows up, and this is from watching Time Team, I cannot believe Time Team has been axed, its a national institution. As Mick Aston observed the geophys and Time Team have always gone hand in hand. Shattered. Yes, the original core team with Carenza, and then Helen Geake, were great. A former academic at Bristol and Oxford universities, he has worked tirelessly to bring archaeology to a wider audience. My wife Ida & I never missed a program for years. The worst thing they did was sex it up. So sad to see my favourite programme on Channel 4 being axed. Time team is currently repeated on more-4 each midweek day and sometimes Saturdays, but I still miss fresh episodes and the original presenters and everyone should put pressure on c4 for more episodes even if it were one a month ! Channel 4 you need looking at!!! I hope its not the end of Time Team. Did you watch the episode of operation nightingale where the maimed ,psychologically injured soldiers from conflicts abroad found an inner peace and a feeling that they were no longer helpless in the world. This comment by Peter Thomas is an excellent precis of all that has been said. My own favourite was Stuart, to see him on his bike or wandering around looking at the landscape with his ability to fit any site into its landscape. 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. The thing that should be axed is the TV exec that made that decision. There is such a thing as going on too long with any endeavor, and in watching this series the definition of too long is clear. 20 years is a long time in television. 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. 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. Harold Bush is lying. The pair bonded on the idyllic Greek island, where Micks aptitude for breathing life into the past convinced Tony that archaeology had untapped television potential. The programmes were sometimes slight and of course a three day dig is only a sketch rather than a full canvass, but Time Team enriched my life. What do other TT viewers think? I will miss TT more than any other show I have ever watched and Im extremely disappointed that C4 have decided to axe a show that brought History into the hearts of so many people. In 2011 the production centre for the programme moved from London to Cardiff. Always will be in my heart! 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