How DARE they axe Time Team, it has been one of my few regular watches for a long time. 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. 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 presented an intellectually enjoyable show to the many mature aged citizens of planet Earth and COULD continue to do so if someone with an gram of sense would realise that this show still has enormous appeal for the right demographic. I do not know he was pretty good towards the end at his archeology. This is true Reallity Television. 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! Here we chart the highs and lows of a revolutionary format that aimed to bring archaeology to the people. TV is a wasteland and TT was an oasis in it. It all got too big, too ambitious. Weve also done the landscapes around them, so if you want additional information then the Time Team reports contain that.. I watch Time Team on Amazon Prime here in Phoenix, AZ USA every day!! Stewart Ainsworth FSA, MCIfA is a British archaeological investigator who is regularly seen on Time Team the Channel 4 archaeological television series he joined in 1995. Our family enjoyed Tony Robinsons performance, but what made Time Team great was Mick and Phil and Carenza and Matt and Stewart and Raksha and Mick the Twig and Bridget and Raysan and Victor the artist and the geophysicists and Robin the historian and all the others whose contributions brought together a cohesive story for a site from a range of disciplines. This biographical article about a British archaeologist is a stub. Yes, it was a great show, but its over now. Maybe after all these replies BBC4 may approach the original team !!! just found TT on Acorn streaming. Carenzas missing as is Helen, I see Mick walked out as I also presume Stewart has too. Requested by a commissioning editor to wear more colourful clothing Mick turned up in the most garish garment he could find as a joke, only to be told it was perfect. The team are irreplaceable, such a huge whole left in life once the program ended. Thank you to everyone who made this such a wonderful programme. This is just swell. The fun gone out of Sunday teatime! 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. This is not the present series I wonder where you are watching? (especially phil, that crazy bloke,lol).I hope channel 4 regret the decision to axe the show. In addition, people are re-discovering the magic and history of their local areas and the wellbeing that can be derived from activities like archaeology. It was the highlight of my life ! The way Phil, Mick, Tony and company have made an impact on my life, you have no idea. Its prototype was Timesigns, a four-part series that aired in 1991. The foregoing is an exhausting but entertaining read. RIP Channel 4. Channel 4 you need looking at!!! but our family loves Phil. 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. 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. They have onbly made a couple of mistakes, 1 was letting Mick go and the other was axing Time Team. If this were a BBC programme, then this alone would be worth the license fee. if you can i would a reply.also HELEN IS ALSO VERY GOOD. My own thoughts are this, why should we allow channel 4 to take this away from us, are the Team ready to call it a day or do they feel like me that there are another thousand potential sites out there to dig. Meanwhile Tonys role transformed from a quiz master to translator of all things archaeological for a general audience. The attempted dumbing down of Time Team smacks of dim executives meeting to dish corporate cliches out to one another. She was replaced by Helen Geake, Anglo-Saxon specialist. Such a shame a beautiful show as this is axed and they show such dribble as reality tv shows blah yuk. A few days later news of Time Teams demise broke in the Guardian. and I just came across the time team on my tablet in November 2019. I agree with Brian, a petition might make Ch4 sit up and realise that we, the viewers, have got brains and like to watch programs with interesting and informative content. The worst thing they did was sex it up. It is about time ABC Australia got there act together and started to replay ALL the episodes, from the first, so that we dont all go crazy from withdrawal symptoms. He worked his sox off. Judged a misfire by Channel 4, it could have been the end. Thank you for educating and entertaining me over the years. Such a fantastic guide, love it. Brilliant. 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 ! Despite his sore loss, he did the right thing to walk out. 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. Gutted to learn it is no more. I now live in Australia and love watching shows on my homeland. If there had been a mission statement for the show during those early days, it would have been the democratisation of archaeology. 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. I so agree. I completely agree with you Lauren. Im 77 and was taught English history at boarding school, but Time Team has made it come alive and with so much meaning. It was a formula that worked for the target audience and trying to attract a different audience by dumbing down the content was like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. Perhaps one of the other channels will see the folly of C4s ways and pick up the program before its too late? Time Team! I got fed up with running and prancing, daring to contradict real aercheologists. Thank God for my Saturday morning lie-in watching four episodes in a row on More 4. 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]. Or are we all to turn off our televisions once we reach 40? It seems there was no need for one before Womens Studies and all those other nonwhite studies. 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. 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. I continue to be in awe of the fantastic skill and enthusiasm of the presenters.May TT be always available to us. I have been fascinated by archaeology since reading Golden Books Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations, at the age of nine, but only recently stumbled across TIME TEAM quite by accident one night. Was it her sultry beauty, or easy going attitude that rubs some the wrong way ? I loved it. 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. Youre right about More4 but try Discovery History which is showing what I think must be very early ones judging by the colour (and amount!) I THINK THIS IS A SHOCKING DECISION AND CAN ONLY HOPE THAT IT IS REVERSED!!! Good job I have the internet to log onto. I know we have no Roman history, but there are thousands of of places that date back thousands of years. A known anthropologist and archeologist ( Emmanuel College, Cambridge ), to describe and dismiss her as a former model is a bit unfair. the cast were so friendly to each other and the show was so intresting and made you think off our past . I found it much preferable to the Planet Earth shows of David Attenbrough. NON of these corporations do they think we are all idiots who will do as they as told like little children in school!!!!! So sad to see the demise of TT. 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. i like everything about it. channel 4 needs to take a look at the BBC they cut and brought back Dr Who look at how its made a great comeback. He should have stuck to presenting instead of trying to take command. When . People like myself really appreciate history coming to life as Time Team presented it. Much has been said about this show on this site but I think that all of you would be best served by reading what Raksha had to say. I now look forward to watching as many individual shows as I can in the future. 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. The producers screwed it with the inevitable dumbing down and trying to make it a show for the 20 to 30 year olds. 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 now our children and grandchildren watch the programme but not for long now. Raksha Dave from Time Team is part of it. Started watching British TV while on exchange with the RAF. The Aussie fans are disappointed too that T T will be finishing up. I found her to be frightening and tedious at the same time, and to this day I fast forward through the segments where she is featured. I wonder whether the viewing figures took in the worldwide audience I know lots of people watched and enjoyed it here in Australia. My wife was unwell for many years but TT was one of the few TV Shows that she got pleasure from. So my husband looked for more info. The original team brought an impressive breadth of skills to the programme. Wasnt TT the only reason to watch Channel 4 ? 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. 2023. Have watched 8 seasons and enjoying them all. Self (as Prof. Stewart Ainsworth) Show all 219 episodes 1998 Time Team Extras (TV Series documentary) Self - High Worsall, North Yorkshire (1998) . I would make just one more: yes, we love the established contributors, our well loved favourites, but what about the good new talent being seen in this present series (2013)? That executive was not recruited from the intellectual highbrow Channel 5 was he? Disgusted, Mick walked out, explaining later For some reason they didnt think oh, wed better run that past Mick. Hes the archaeological consultant, he might have an opinion about that (see CA 271). certainly helped to fill a lot of university places, even if many of those gaining degrees have gone on to other careers. It was this show that gave me the inspiration to study history and I will really miss it. It took off instantly and has been there going from strength to strength since 2004. we dont want more programmes that is rubbish there is more than i could even say. Prof Mick, great bloke and always so calm, Carensa made a lot of episodes more entertaining and TR a god of comedy and history. So apart from discovering the female cleavage (along with Kleenex tissues) looking for Saxon pottery designed to hold bovine waste, expanding your knowledge of Saxon tea services as well as teaching both Vivian Westwood and Tony & Guy a thing or twowhat other skills have you learned since watching Time Team? This is the sort of Programme that would thrive on BBC 2 in conjunction with The Open University. 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. I liked the pictures Victor did on several shows which showed the principals in historical costumes. Maybe one day she will say sorry to us all. The changes proved too much, too fast, and viewing figures crashed to 700,000. I loved the camaraderie.. the discoveries.. the wonderful feeling of how people not only survived in early times..but were every bit as capable and inventive as WE think we are ! Its prototype was Timesigns, a four-part series that aired in 1991. TV is going downhill faster & faster. And anyway, why would we want Channel 4 to keep TT? This segregates the viewers and leaves fans like me stuck in the middle and slightly upset at the notion that my favorite programmes have been taken over by people who havent got a idea. I have only lately discovered time team and I love it I record as many episodes as I can and I think all of the cast make the show I was never interested in archeology but I am addicted now just watchedthe Salisbury plain one with the soldiers who are coping with life and one said that watching TT helped hime to relax and began to enjoy life again Executive producer Philip Clarke said the current series had introduced Miss Ochota and archaeologist Alex Langlands. (Then, of course, it goes straight to Hell). I just love the way English history came alive & feel like the team must have lots of fun doing this job.I was hopeing to find them on a dig when I come over to visit .Lets hope the powers that be decide to bring it back or make a new show similar to it. We will suffer forever without the seasonal hours of archaeology, in all its forms. 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. I have enjoyed Tony Robinsons commentaries. Incidentally, Mr Harding, this flygirl will gladly buy you a pint, any day and would love to hear stories about years of pulling history out of the ground one piece, one bone, and one shard at a time. 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. Just recently I saw a show about Egypt using satellite infra red survey archaeology that could reveal all the subsurface features accross a whole landscape. He was an inspiration to me and to so many others. What a wonderful 20 years we/they had. will take it on. 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. TT is without doubt, the best offering in British television. Self - Aston Eyre, Shropshire (1998) . A thoroughly good bunch of people with a true PASSION for their subject ! This was the best educational programme that I looked forward to every week and also all the repeats that were broadcast on more 4. Hi. When I get a chance I watch the repeats on More 4. 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. 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