do they ever have reunions whereby you could meet the surviving characters.. i hate computers these days, they act up. In 2011 the production centre for the programme moved from London to Cardiff. I have just realised that time team is to be axed by c4. Watched it since the beginning, some great episodes and fantastic digs. 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. Placing viewers at the heart of the action would become a Time Team hallmark. 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. Im in my mid 40s. As of 2010 Ainsworth has been affiliated with the History and Archaeology department at the University of Chester, where he is a visiting professor. This is the sort of Programme that would thrive on BBC 2 in conjunction with The Open University. Wouldnt it be lovely if all teams could be like the Time Team? Come on BBC . Was it her sultry beauty, or easy going attitude that rubs some the wrong way ? The comment by Peter Thomas is excellent and is a very eloquent summation. Meet the Ancestors was also a good programme we need more Archaelogy programmes on TV. I thought the 2013 series was an improvement on the 2012 series, but tonights episode was disappointing. I loved every minute of it. It may be in fifteen or so years a new Time Team will go digging in the archives of the defunct Channel 4 to explain how with the audience Channel 4 had for an entertaining and informative programme Which bright go ahead executive (IDIOT) came up with the Idea, if its not broken we must fix it. 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. Its put me very on edge not to know where Im up to and I think Channel 4 should be funding my medication for hypertension, blurred vision (tears I think) and severe withdrawal already before its ended. I just can not believe we will not see his fabulous jumpers again.. ( except in repeats of course ). Its December 2016, My Hubby and I live in Queensland Australia,we have Foxtel and have the old shows on a series link and never get tired of watching the Time Team. The lesson is that if you have a slightly faded masterpiece, dont try and touch it up with the aid of novices. What am I going to do now knowing there isnt an unending stream of new TTs to feed my addiction? We are no longer accepting comments on this article. 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. Thank you, Time Team!!! Hello from the US. 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 ! I loved the banter between Tony, Phil and Mick and anyone could see they enjoyed their jobs. I too am upset that this has been axed. This would be the only way of successfully reincarnating Time Team and fixing your pathetic and ignorant and unsuccessful changes. 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. This was the best educational programme that I looked forward to every week and also all the repeats that were broadcast on more 4. That doesnt work in the US. Re-assemble the team ! There was a youthful energy to them back them, which was part of the attraction. 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 Teams genesis is a well-rehearsed story. 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. With its awkwardly embarassing reality programming and multitude of dream come true talent shows American television is NOTHING to emulate. Never having been colonized by them I guess we in Ireland may have a slightly less reverential view of their civilizing effect on the native culture. His passion for digging up relics, come rain or shine, is unparalleled. Whichever fool(s) cut it, perhaps they are now also, goneso please bring Time Team back it was a great staple! After reading, in his youth, a book about Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, and visiting the Tower of London, he formed an interest in the history of landscapes.[2]. We NEED Time Team. True, Tony Robinson did tend to upstage and steal a scene or two, but those of us who enjoyed one of the best programmes to ever hit TV, expected and accepted that. WellRay Watters has voiced my opinions exactlywatched every show many timeslearnt a vast amountlaughed aloudcried for Robin Bush.visited many siteswatched live digs on the internetfavourite themes are Saxon/Medievil so the latest episode at Oakham was superbWhat can we doCan we get our own website or freeview channel or satelite channelTHE TIME TEAM CHANNELwowendless repeats and a vast back catalougei have every episode on a hard drivedont tellsssshhhh.I would be very happy to subscribei am currently paying over 20 a month for Sky Sports and only watch it about 5 times a weekPlease let me know what you think and lets hear which are your favouritesmine is Hartlepool as this is where i am and my mother was born on the site of the Ancient AbbeyHeres hoping. What a bore YOU are! document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a3c3c528f5d4ab9be4dd73fd43d71409" );document.getElementById("ac59ec51d8").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Latest news from our sister site, the-past.com. Gee I feel gutted. I agree .I have thoroughly enjoyed Time Team and was greatly disappointed when I switched on my TV at the usual time and found no sign of Time Team at that time or any other. 2023 CURRENT PUBLISHING LTD - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Very sad that all great things have to come to an end one day. TT was an outstanding program. People like myself really appreciate history coming to life as Time Team presented it. Said no-one, ever. | 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. 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. There are some of us who actually enjoy watching interesting, factual, historic programs. Most of what I feel about the demise of TT has already been said here. A monumental row and walk out, one would guess. John and his team must have walked miles. How will I live? the cast were so friendly to each other and the show was so intresting and made you think off our past . 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. 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!). My cable TV subscription gives us awesome selections for history, science, and information buffs! why change what works well and T T did work well . He joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (now part of English Heritage) in 1985, and was its Landscape Investigation Team based in York, England. Cheers. Tony was the right man to present, no doubt about that. The focus groups of today, the council chambers of yesteryear; all determined to make their mark, put their talent on show. Time Team Official 133K subscribers Time Team Teatime - Session 28 Wrapping up Black History Month and our exploration of North America's early European colonies, we're staying in St Mary's. Whatever happened, wed all thought, well complete the 20th series. I have loved it from the first episode and who cares if Tony is a little OTT sometimes, he keeps it entertaining and all together. Exploring the archaeology of the Roadford Reservoir, Devon, this came about after Tim Taylor approached Mick Aston to present the series. and the entire bunch breathed fresh life into the sometimes boring subject of Archaeology. My nineteen year old daughter has always been passionate about having a career in archaeology even more so now. But would be top stuff if BBC 4 could pick it up and get things back on track. Just a thought If anyone knows how to get up an on line partition, perhaps we could get enough signatures to make Ch4 sit up and take notice? 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 ! A brilliant series has been lost to the older viewer. 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. Geophysics gives you that instant picture you can then evaluate. 20 years is a long time in television. She completely ruined it, and led to Mick Aston walking out on the show. Time team has been a part of tv watching since its beginning . Long-serving archaeologists Helen Geake and Stewart Ainsworth would appear less often. That has gone now, so im going to just have to watch all the reruns on Discovery history ( and there are quite a few of them) and be happy. You can find her message at https://digventures.com/2013/03/tools-down-for-time-team-raksha-dave-on-the-end-of-an-era-and-her-new-adventure/. Yes, it became a bit formulaic probably inevitable when dullard TV producers are involved. I guess the nearest feeling to learning of its ending was like being told that your solid mates of the past twenty years are all splitting up and moving abroad. Why cant these so-called clever people just leave things alone. Gutted! That is, the irritating new team members, the irritating clanging noise when Tony narrates and the increasingly less time spent in the trenches. 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. Thank you Time Team for all those wonderful hours of thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. May be he could be a Lord? As our first dig back, we were keen on a site that would produce amazing evidence, showcase the very best that Time Team can offer, and allows us to demonstrate to the full the latest technology like LiDAR and GPR, says Taylor. The foregoing is an exhausting but entertaining read. Time Teams legacy leaves much to celebrate. 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. Enjoyed Tony and the whole crew, felt like u were part of the dig and part of the crew, they were all like family. Who was the idiot that canceled it??? Please BBC take this show under your wings ! Rest in peace, Mick, you added more to peoples lives than you probably ever realised. What happened to Stewart Ainsworth? We range in age from 8yrs to 82yrs and have loved Tony, Mick, Phil, Carenza, Helen, Faye, geophys John and most of all Stuart. My oldest son and my husband dream of being as good in tapping flint as Phil! What proved to be the fateful conversation took place in a Little Chef on the Okehampton bypass. Brought up 3 kids on it. They will be joined by new faces representing the breadth of experts practising archaeology today. I am going to miss the show. 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. It is the ONLY program I think worth watching in all the rubbish put on these days ! What a pity we had to endure that young lady fashion model who merely read her script for a couple of episodes. I still enjoy my archaeology despite my age not being able to take part in the reality. I think weve brought it into the forefront of peoples attention. Charlies comments would carry more weight if the spelling was correct. The team of Tony, Mick, Phil, Stuart, John, Carenza, Brigid, Guy, etc etc filled me with warmth and satisfaction. Carenza Lewis, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake and geophys genius John Gater will all be returning and are excited about the new sites. Oh well, TV is doomed. Victor is a great artist and bought sites to 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! 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. Six years after the last 'three days dig' was aired, the series is unstoppably popular on youtube. In 2014. Time Team: Created by Tim Taylor. Out of interest, Time Team fans, how many of you would be willing to pay directly to watch new programs? Sadly, my wife passed away in January 2012 but I carried on watching it until it ended. I think Tony is a good fit for this program. I would echo it completely. We totally agree with Nick Robinson, we too will be enjoying repeats and cursing Channel 4!. Whilst on youtube, also check out dig ventures; another fantastic project with another familiar face. There are DVDs, some available on Amazon uk. Spent many an hour intrigued by the whole show and the people on it. Beautifully expressed, Andrew. Time team is irreplaceable. Without Time Team I would not have known how much I could enjoy archaeology and Im pretty sure its why my 7 year old wants to be an archaeologist when she grows up. Maybe it was better to end the show before they replaced the entire cast with celebrities from TOWIE. Time Team - Helen Geake Helen Geake Small Finds Specialist and Anglo-Saxon Expert Helen's interest in archaeology was sparked partly by attending lecturers by Time Team's Mick. However BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a state-owned institution from inter-war origins. fingers crossed, The show never recovered from the loss of Faye Simpson in my opinion. I wish! Toni Victoria australia. Like Paul said (June 23 comment) you wished you could join them in the pub at the end for a beer . Seeing an entire brigade of scientists down at the pub for lunch made the show so human and readily acceptable. This is not the present series I wonder where you are watching? 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. If Id been younger when the programme first started I would have loved to have studied archaeology to work in such a fascinating area, I had little knowledge of or interest in archaeology before. Miss TT so much. 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. This programme could have run and run with the younger people such as Helen Geake, Brigid, Matt and Raksha taking it into the next 20 years. 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. Shots of him in woodland seeking out raw materials for a reconstructed axe allowed the audience to witness the hands-on practical process. You should be ashamed of yourselves, especially the way you have treated Mick Aston after all those years of dedicated service. You are going to be missed more than most of us realise. I have missed Time Team SO much.. The Aussie fans are disappointed too that T T will be finishing up. Hopefully some other channel will take up the format eventually. I got fed up with running and prancing, daring to contradict real aercheologists. I enjoy his style of presentation. He has since appeared in over two hundred episodes. I have watched every episode from season 1, some many times. It is practically unheard of for a factual, specialist programme to spend two decades as the public face of its subject and become a national institution along the way. They tried to make it edgy and the thing I loved about time team was its lack of edginess? I am 81 & have watched & enjoyed TT for many years. Self - Aston Eyre, Shropshire (1998) . Surely a revamp, no helicopters, fewer paid staff, smaller archaeological objectives, involve communities more hence free labour would help. It is located on the Broughton Estate in Oxfordshire, belonging to the Fiennes family. 1951. I am one of the over 40s over 60 in fact. Whats on at this afternoon? Real shame its leaving our screens but it did give us so many hours of pleasure along with the odd glimpse of a young Alice Roberts and the occasional grumpiness of Mick. As a teacher of Ancient and Modern History in Australia, I found the T.T programs a wonderful way to back up the various topics I taught. With Channel 4 keen to attract more supposedly affluent viewers in their 20s and 30s, season 19 also tinkered with the format. My wife and I are from the States and discovered Time Team on Amazon Prime after watching/ loving other British shows- Rick Steins culinary travels, Timothy Wests canal cruising, etc. Changing all the staff behind Time Team was a big mistake, but ending it is even bigger. 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. He was an inspiration to me and to so many others. Not on the Live I dug at. It would be nice if Channel 4 admitted its error and reinstated Time Team in its proper format. Oh dear what a shame as its such a great program especially with Phil & ALL the team.I think their sense of humour is almost worth a show on its own.Anyway a big thank you for many interesting hours as a an armchair archeologist. But in this, as in so many other ways, Time Team bucks the trend. my gosh, I am from Chula Vista Ca. 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. I suppose I will have to go back to Dads Army for a bit of sanity then, Robyn Australia 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. And the journey is not quite over yet. .As always it will, I supposed be replaced by some run of the mill program, American sit com or soap. They seem to have replaced alot of the original cast for more easy on the eye team members, the new historian was a prime example. I suppose theres nothing wrong with her per se, but her presence is utterly unnecessary. Perhaps we could have a US/Canada version? too, although not often. If it doesnt involve foul-mouthed yobs eating too much, drinking too much or better still both, they arent bovvered. very sad day in T V HISTORY. NEVER. Carenzas missing as is Helen, I see Mick walked out as I also presume Stewart has too. It wasnt perfect but the catty remarks are uncalled for. Tim Team has finally brought British history into focus for me. Not that I want to live there though am quite happy to be an Australian. The show ran on the chemistry among the original team, and failed to work as they left or lost interest. I love Time Team and regularly binge watch have seen many episodes several times. Whats wrong with a passing reference to global warming unless you are an eccentric climate change denier? I know real archaeologists are dismissive of Time Team but I loved it. Love the show and all the characters especially Phil! while the Facebook page is slowly building! 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 Im so grateful to all the Time Team members for a wonderful 20 seasons. It was this show that gave me the inspiration to study history and I will really miss it. And, unlike Phil and Mick, one didnt long to give her a haircut!! Youve said it all, I totally agree! Im tired of the idiots that run TV and Im ready for revolution.whos with me!!! Not all of us want mindless reality TV that costs a few bob to present. I dont think a Presenter is supposed to be a devils advocate. You can never run out of history in Britain. Is Phil Harding a Phd? What do we all enjoy about it? Hi Alan, thanks a lot for your reply very helpful. Its the best show! Well said, Paul! I lost my job recently due to illness.time team made my days. save. The new series is getting nearer to the original format, I think, except for the one featuring the soldiers, which, dare I say it and risk castigation (?) By
. Also, the most recent posters may not have heard of Mick Astons premature death. I THINK THIS IS A SHOCKING DECISION AND CAN ONLY HOPE THAT IT IS REVERSED!!! You can change your choices at any time by visiting your privacy controls. It has certainly opened up the world of archaeology to new generations, and has He trained as a surveyor before entering the archaeology section of the Ordnance Survey. Yes, Upton Castle was a bit of a mess in terms of style, but it held our interest. Please, please would someone bring the show back, This is just another example of Managements old adage: Its perfect; lets New and Improve it I have watched TT for the last 20 years from my mid 20s. Im getting to the point at which I can glance at a find in a diggers hand and exclaim, Oh! 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). There are only about a thousand signatures so far.Personally, although I have signed, I dont think it will do much good. Tim Taylor devised the name Time Team, and in 1992 a pilot episode was filmed in Dorchester-on-Thames. They included a new presenter to join Tony Robinson and decisions to drop some archaeologists and cut down the informative stuff about the archaeology. They cant bring it back. 2012 was a very low point and i half expected it to end right then. 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. And if you do, please include the adorable and hilarious Raksha Dave, dear Francis Pryor and Stewart Ainsworth, all of whom have places near and dear to my heart. To an incredible all round team we thank you and to Phil damn we will miss you! He is 10. 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? And we have just recently lost Mick Aston, the Rock of Gibraltar of the show. Back in the olden days(late 70s) I was accused of being an anglophile by the University of New Mexico professor who was trying to recruit me, an English Major, into his new American Studies department. Will miss them! A former academic at Bristol and Oxford universities, he has worked tirelessly to bring archaeology to a wider audience. While viewing it might be a bittersweet experience we should enjoy the moment while we can. I watch Time Team on Amazon Prime here in Phoenix, AZ USA every day!! As is the case with so many entertainment channels, these days the focus is on the younger generation. 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. Like others I have loved TT right from the start and have always enjoyed it. I first came across it a few years back while channel surfing Hey I know him thats Baldrick. Closed minds achieve nothing in life. Very disappointing. And there is much yet to dig and poke at historically in the world, let alone Great Britain. Usually clad in a loud jumper, with his white hair blowing in the wind, Professor Aston was the shows site director who chose where to dig for the next historical discovery.
INCREDIBLE ! Stewart Ainsworth was born on 26 June, 1951 in Yorkshire, United Kingdom, is a British archaeological investigator. Series Producer and creator of Time Team, Tim Taylor says . Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth on How To See Time In The Landscape. Robinson has been a superb presenter and long may he continue on historical based series . Time Team has sometimes been accused of peddling stereotypes to the public, but anyone who has met the archaeologists will know that they are not cynical media-savvy operators adopting false personas for the camera. (Cardiff hillfort). I never felt patronized and certainly never notice Tony Robinson sermonizing about global warming. What an absolutely stupid decision to ax Time Team! Thank you,Mick, for all that you gave us.and thanks to Micks family for sharing him with us. Hopefully it will be picked up by another channel. All the others as far back as 1828 from Ireland and Scotland. Perhaps there were too many Roman sites with their predictable layouts. I love archeology, and it was so educational seeing how it is done. if there is a petition please let me know.i would like to put our names down. Yet despite bringing the past to life using the familiar ingredients of excavation, landscape survey and reconstructions including Phil felling a tree with a flint axe Timesigns is a very different beast. Perhaps we can come up with a crew of our own with Ronald Hutton replacing Tony Robinson and I do know of a great film crew that would take up the filming. Maybe one day she will say sorry to us all. And now it has been pulled, left to the re-marketing of DVD, and the Internet. After graduation she did some modelling, including shoots for Special K. She was the anthropologist on the BBCs Castaway Exposed and has presented a number of other programmes using her expertise. 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