32. Really gutted TT has finished, and shame on Channel 4 for this decision! I just can not believe we will not see his fabulous jumpers again.. ( except in repeats of course ). He asks the questions that some people must be sat in front of their TV asking. This is the sort of Programme that would thrive on BBC 2 in conjunction with The Open University. As others have said, lets hope that the B.B.C. "[3], As of 2010, Ainsworth has been affiliated with the history and archaeology department at the University of Chester, where he is a visiting professor.[4]. The comment by Peter Thomas is excellent and is a very eloquent summation. Leave it to an insular management team to screw it up. 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. Lytham St Annes. (Cardiff hillfort). I think weve brought it into the forefront of peoples attention. Just did the same as Leigh trying to find out when the next series is due to start. Posted by 27 days ago. 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. It was my favourite show for many years and definitely, for me, left so many other scientifically accurate but boring-as-bat-poo documentaries in its dust. Though Professor Aston appears with the new recruits in the current series, he will not join the 20th series, which starts filming in April and is due to be shown this year. Carenza Lewis, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake and geophys genius John Gater will all be returning and are excited about the new sites. 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. This was highlighted by having a member of the public read out a letter of invitation at the beginning, posing the question they wanted answered. I can honestly say that what you saw on the television was what you got in real life. It makes me want to poke nyy head in and see the Geophys, operate the diggers to open a trench and pick up a trowel and start digging! Id say it was as his programmes/stories Time Team were canceled by BBC (see the websites: Channel 4 Time Team and Time Team: the rise and fall of a television phenomenon). The more TV appeal execs tried to inject, the less people wanted to watch. If I were an enterprising producer on another channel, I would start a new series that build on the fascinating skills of Stuart A. Well Done Time Team, sad to hear you are soon to be no more. I am 81 & have watched & enjoyed TT for many years. do they ever have reunions whereby you could meet the surviving characters.. i hate computers these days, they act up. Having said that, I hope this means Time Team DVDs will now be more available to those of us in the US who adore the show. 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. Yes, Upton Castle was a bit of a mess in terms of style, but it held our interest. My dad worked for the National Park Service and I was born quite near Chaco Canyon[(a universally important archeological site) in a Navajo mission(Christian) hospital]. We are pleased to share the winners of years CA Awards, announced on 25 February at Current Archaeology Live! Shame on Chanel 4! Probably just as well this is the last series, but as many have suggested, a move to BB4 sounds a great idea. Find out more here. I had no idea it was finishing until yesterday and I missed the last viewing as I have flu and have been sleeping a lot.. OH DEAR ! Bring back Time Team. Maybe it will work with time team too. . , Totally agree have enjoyed this programme since it started. Find out more about how we use your information in our privacy policy and cookie policy. Apparently, there was plenty of dirt being dug off camera, thanks largely to the people up top. How right Mick Aston was. I have watched time team since episode one and I am gutted . 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. Best wishes to everyone ever involved with the show. She completely ruined it, and led to Mick Aston walking out on the show. I hate the way that today producers think all people are stupid and try to dumb down TV. Thank goodness there is a myriad of viewers who appreciate the achievement of Time 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. Toni Victoria australia. Yes TR can be intensely irritating at times, but as the years have gone by I think his appreciation of the experts has increased and they have learned skills from him about presentation. Thanks to you all. I enjoyed Time Team and I will miss it Carenza and the later Helen Geake were the highlights for me there was always a sense of tension when you heard a shout of Tony not knowing what find theyd unearthed. However, as a viewer I hugely enjoyed the opportunity to share in the Teams excitement. i have seen every episode of time team and ive never seen him mention anything like that other than one time, so you are a complete moron and need to look up what the word patronize means since i am now patronizing you. 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. The breakthrough came when Timesigns proved an unexpected hit. When discussing the latest TT episode at work/with friends sadly there doesnt seem to be many others who watch it, Ive always been interested in history so maybe its just me & maybe the young people of today arent being taught that history can be exciting/interesting. The old team are the best Mick, Phil, Tony et al.. think Channel 4 have made a HUGE mistake bet they wont listen to the public.. I was so sad to find out that it is finishedCould we bring it back? I saw the same program, Justin, and I agree entirely! 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 owe a debt of gratitude to the wonderful Time Team ensemble. It was not the first time that a chance conversation with Mick had got someone thinking about television archaeology. Hope it returns anne from Ontario Canada. 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! This is not the present series I wonder where you are watching? (Bog Latin). I would be very interested in acquiring DVDs of the whole series to watch at my leaisure. But thanks guys and I am pretty sure that someone somewhere will pick up the baton. If ever there is a petition to bring this back, count me in. My parents watch it. This is no good for those at work or school. While the yet-to-air season 20 promises a return to more-traditional Time Team values, it was too late. Click Manage settings for more information and to manage your choices. I liked the pictures Victor did on several shows which showed the principals in historical costumes. I have loved Time Team since episode 1, and have never, not once, missed an episode. Towards the end of its run an average episode would cost around 200,000 a budget more on the scale of a small drama show in the eyes of television insiders but over 20 years Channel 4 pumped 4 million directly into British archaeology. 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). Wouldnt it be lovely if all teams could be like the Time Team? An absolute feast of mind, interest and the ever curiosity of young and old alike about What lie underneath that humble plot of soil?.TIme Team approached that humble plot we would all like to delve into.they bring that knowledge of how with them and together unveal little glimspes of anothers past which we back bring here, to today.as a reflection and connection.like a mirror between centuries and timesand sunrises and pleasant breezes of a long ago Sunday afternoon, I thought it was the Bi..o presenter the doomed it for sure, brought in because we are all suddenly dumb. Tags: Time Team was on television, but not of it. 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. Was it one persons requirements that brought extras into the show, persons not wanted nor needed, also not as talented as a walnut. I will miss it and them dreadfully. In between programmes, E4 these days uses short clips of things like hillwalking and narrow boats to ridicule the interests of old people. Time team is one of the programs I love to watch. Now I have no reason what ever to watch ch 4 now or in the future . But when he returned to Britain, Tony found the studios equally intransient. what fools these youngsters are. While viewing it might be a bittersweet experience we should enjoy the moment while we can. I am team Ainsworth, so he would have to be brought back. I dont think I could stand watching Phils grotty hat for one more season. NEVER. ! 17:30 EST 07 Feb 2012 Just a thought/ John. 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!). He trained as a surveyor before entering the archaeology section of the Ordnance Survey. (But not, ever, I would agree, grinning totty!) Do 5 day digs instead. Its a shame yet highlights the offensively patronizing view metro-based TV people have of the general public. 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. I have been binge watching on YouTube whilst laid up with a medical issue. if you can i would a reply.also HELEN IS ALSO VERY GOOD. I love archeology, and it was so educational seeing how it is done. Its disadvantage was that it had no scope to include z-list celebrities to manufacture controversy around, and so it was killed. A few days later news of Time Teams demise broke in the Guardian. I didnt always like the reenactments but it was interesting when they dealt with diet and medical issues. Thanks Guys! 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. My youngest daughter honed her love of history sitting with me on a Sunday evening watching Mick and Tony et al. Poor second best but something is better than nothing. I found TR irritating at times but accepted him as part of the show. He was an inspiration to me and to so many others. 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. Anyone who visited one of their digs while shooting was underway will have seen the devotion it inspired in members of the public. 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. GOOD LUCK TO THEM ALL. My heart goes out to his family. He brought a wonderful empathy to Time Team.. his kind detailed replies to Tonys frustration always impressed me ! My nineteen year old daughter has always been passionate about having a career in archaeology even more so now. Whatever happened, wed all thought, well complete the 20th series. I want to salute everyone involved in this show! Best wishes, good luck and Gods speed to the lot of you! Lee, viewer outrage worked in Australia with The Movie Show. !I have just retired and it would be perfect NOW. As an aside seeing your label Non-Richardian Yorkist what are your feelings about the parking lot discovery? i like everything about it. Stewart Ainsworth (born 26 June 1951) is a British archaeological investigator who was regularly seen on Time Team, the Channel 4 archaeological television series. This biographical article about a British archaeologist is a stub. A family programe deleted. 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. Chronicle. John has kept on top of technical advances, and the results of his survey of Brancaster Roman fort provide one of the outstanding moments in the forthcoming season 20. Perhaps one of the other channels will see the folly of C4s ways and pick up the program before its too late? And now it has been pulled, left to the re-marketing of DVD, and the Internet. & has never been more pi**ed off 2 here that its being Despite some great new people who learnt fast, expecting them to produce the same calibre of product immediately was just too big a demand. and Im so grateful to all the Time Team members for a wonderful 20 seasons. 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. Jim Mower (development producer, see his opinion piece here) believes that Phil Hardings material was among the most innovative. I always look forward to it when I get chance and to know that it is finishing is both shocking and disappointing. Harold Bush is lying. Ive binge watched Time Team on YouTube and up to S17. Excellent show. We are headed to the UK in May from the US to see some of the TT sites. He has since appeared in over two hundred episodes. I guess it was always going to happen when TV administrators who, judging by the few Ive seen interviewed, are challenged by words of more than two syllables come into contact with educated professionals. It remains my all time favourite reality TV show and I really miss it. Very sad that all great things have to come to an end one day. I love time team because it is filled with such enthusiasm and love for its subject. Time Team went out of fashion because the rest of us got sick of being patronised by Tony Robinson, who seemed incapable of letting an entire episode pass without a snide comment or a sermon about man-made global warming. I have watched every episode from season 1, some many times. Regards Peter Mulready Australia. Yes,he was often guilty of playing the devils advocate, but at such times he was the voice of many of us upon listening to yet another gigantic leap of hastily constructed faith or explanation of purpose for the sake of the less informed viewing massive. 2023. Innit? I know we have no Roman history, but there are thousands of of places that date back thousands of years. axed is their a petition running ????? Without time team on the television the world of tv is going to be a poorer place. I enjoy watching this program on my computer(I never knew about it 10 years ago because we have so many garbage programs here on US television, they did not show it here.). 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. Such a shame a beautiful show as this is axed and they show such dribble as reality tv shows blah yuk. Envisioned as a quiz show in the vein of Challenge Anneka running on BBC 1 from 1989 to 1995 the team were called on to solve archaeological mysteries while racing against the clock. Hated that they axed Mick Aston and brought in other new people!!! Time team came back as a clear favourite, so for one of the national conferences we decided to contact Time Team so that Tony or one of the team could come along and give a talk. Never too late to register shock and disgust at the decision to axe Time Team which has opened up the hidden world of archaeology to generations. Whichever fool(s) cut it, perhaps they are now also, goneso please bring Time Team back it was a great staple! His passion for digging up relics, come rain or shine, is unparalleled. I love Time Team and regularly binge watch have seen many episodes several times. You have left us wanting more which of course is the best way to end a show. It was responsible for me going on a dig and having a great time. As well as an arresting demonstration of the power of teamwork, Athelney showed how geophysics could be the heart of the programme. Is Phil Harding a Phd? Not that I want to live there though am quite happy to be an Australian. Yes very sorry to see TT go, Sky at night still going both are just as important to us here on Earth and I think it will be missed in the future though the recordings are still available to evertbody but the forum is lost, Grrrr channel 4. It was Stewart who discovered the true route of the Roman road as it went through Greenwich Park. 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. I cannot understand why you are axing it!!? Tony, Mick,and Phil will be missed. 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. 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. I watch Time Team on Amazon Prime here in Phoenix, AZ USA every day!! I learned so much, as many others have, and admired the way it brought archaeology to everyone. I am off to channel four to ask them what is wrong with audiences that are over 40, 50 or even 60, what is wrong with older peoples programmes? Self - Deya, Mallorca, Spain (1998) . Self - Sanday, Orkney (1998) . As Francis Pryor observed on his blog, in many ways the real question is what went right?. 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. 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. 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