Yes, it became a bit formulaic probably inevitable when dullard TV producers are involved. And Ive always thought tony was perfectly great as the show presenter, interested and fun, a joy to watch. Yes, Phil can still shift the muck but check out his work on lithics studies and you might change your opinion. My second eldest is 18, and we only watch one program together as our interests are so different (that would be Time Team). I am so sad and gutted Time Team has been axed. 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 wonder if some young Channel 4 TV executive is proud of his/her decisions. the cast were so friendly to each other and the show was so intresting and made you think off our past . Brought up 3 kids on it. What a hero! Watching how the team coalesce over time and their skills mature. The final piece of the jigsaw fell into place during the fledgling Time Teams first episode. Being well aired on the Yesterday TV Channel Monday to Friday throughout the day, Time team proved that nothing I is really lost it us just covered up soil sand and water 3 cheers for the team ron atkinson. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. or anyone with an IQ of 50 and below, or the attention span a bit longer than a small herring. What a great show. You wonder what kind of palsy comes over TV programers when they occasionally axe the best shows, shows with strong, solid substance!!! She joined the frontline team of presenters, for the 2006 series and continued until 2010. 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. About the same time I discovered TT and became a dedicated viewer and have viewed all their programmes thanks to More Four. I have loved Time Team since episode 1, and have never, not once, missed an episode. I used to tape the shows & send the tapes to my sister in Winnipeg who enjoyed them as much as as we did Phil & Tony were our Favourites . Thank goodness there is a myriad of viewers who appreciate the achievement of Time Team. 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. My children are 13 and 12, and we all like to sit down as a family and watch this programme together and learn something. I too have enjoyed Time Team and am amazed that it has been scrapped. Gee I feel gutted. The foregoing is an exhausting but entertaining read. In 2011 the production centre for the programme moved from London to Cardiff. Its our favoite show. The technology now at our disposal, and a new generation of archaeologists joining the team, is a fantastic prospect. 20 years is a long time in television. I will miss it & Sunday afternoons will not be the same-Im all for a petition -there arent many programs on now that are educational & family viewing with no risk whatsoever of offending anyone, there are too many reality programs these days & that seems to be what the young people are watching. So why could it not continue on and evolve in 2013 ? Posted by 27 days ago. Phil is fantastic as he has always been. 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. I for one will not watch any new episodes. Time Team repeats on You Tube are helping to keep me sane during the Covid19 lockdown. Weve been able to order some DVDs from Australia, but we have missed many of the series since we moved here, and there is no way to watch them online. paleo-osteology, finds experts, experts in the Bronze Age or Rome I am as raptured as Phil squatting in a newly opened trench exclaiming, Oooh! Refreshing to see non-Brits find our history/heritage of great interest. 2023 CURRENT PUBLISHING LTD - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. We love Time Team and are astonished at its demise. 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. One of the people she missed was Carenza Lewis. Thanks to you all. Leave it to an insular management team to screw it up. 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. Just heard about the axing of Time Team what a shame! I am thrilled that TT is returning in 2022, but saddened that Phil, Raksha and Tony will not be participating. 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. THEY DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS. Nevis, West Indies: Part 1: Directed by Graham Dixon. Your email address will not be published. why change what works well and T T did work well . Time Teams status as a staple of the television schedule also wrought changes behind the scenes. That they were able to achieve what very few others were able to achieve and give a thirst to the man-in-the-street in what could be classed as a dry subject only adds weight to what they were able to achieve in such a fantastic way. I had no idea it had finished. I am appalled. The Time Team go to the West Indies and the island of Nevis. Yeah. I cannot believe that Mick Aston has died, so very young, I thought he would go on forever. http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html R.i.P. The fact that TT was the only programme I regularly watched on Channel 4 I am very sad to see it go. So, Ch4 why did you do away with this gem of a program? 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. (But not, ever, I would agree, grinning totty!) 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. To all the people who wrote nasty comments on this forum about it, I leave you with this question why are you on this site at all if you didnt love it like the rest of us? Partly, we all feel we are losing old friends after all this time but theres so much trash on TV that its no surprise that its loss is so keenly felt. Thank God for my Saturday morning lie-in watching four episodes in a row on More 4. I often wish you could all come to my back yard 1 acre) and help me find the many many pairs of secateurs buried therein. save. I regularly tape the programmes as it is shown on a variety of stations, history,yesterday, and channel 4 being some. 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. The worst thing they did was sex it up. I wonder how Tony felt with this introduction, as he had been doing the job for so long, and never once boring. With Channel 4 keen to attract more supposedly affluent viewers in their 20s and 30s, season 19 also tinkered with the format. 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). They included a new presenter to join Tony Robinson and decisions to drop some archaeologists and cut down the informative stuff about the archaeology. 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. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Tony used the rest of the Teams expertise to bring to life what was often regarded as a crusty subject before Time Teams arrival. I never had any interest in my UK ancestors heritage and the conditions they must have endured until I watched the team in action. Stewart Ainsworth is Time Team's Landscape Archaeologist. IT WILL WORK, IT WILL BE SUPPORTED. Not any more. quite a lot of the programmes are available on Veehd.com. 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. You can never run out of history in Britain. Joining you at your virtual pyre and raising a glass to Mick Aston! Six years after the last 'three days dig' was aired, the series is unstoppably popular on youtube. 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. The 2006 audience survey also identified that Time Teams core audience consisted of families and people aged over 45 / 50. Speak for your self! It makes me chief superfan and supporter all armoury in our shared desire to inspire and stimulate interest in archaeology at all levels., Its great to be back! says Taylor. (3 different history channels, Discovery channel, Travel channel, Military channel, National Geographic channel the list goes on and on. My absolute favorite TV program! Now I have no reason what ever to watch ch 4 now or in the future . People seem to enjoy them. I now watch with complete interest in what is going on in the world of Archaeology and love everything about our great nations past. Lets hope that BBC4 takes up the genre. It should have stayed like that and people would have carried on watching. Bring them back ! Jim Mower (development producer, see his opinion piece here) believes that Phil Hardings material was among the most innovative. Afterall SA is used to watching loads of rubbish repeats every day!!! Now everyone knows the word geophys. Hated that glamour woman simply the wrong feel.. Very, very sorry that management mis-handling killed it. He has since appeared in over two hundred episodes. During that time he deduced the towns Medieval layout. Eat umble pie you are having a laff. I would echo it completely. Steve Singleton Regarding Time Team's potential return, which was realised in 2022 after an eight-year hiatus, Ainsworth said: "Time Team has probably been one of the biggest things that has happened to archaeology for many years to make archaeology and history accessible, and we need to keep that profile going whatever way we can. Arrr! What do other TT viewers think? Maybe the finding of Richard III might encourage a change of heart. With my boys now being 8, 6 and 4 years old, we are still watching the episodes and in our holidays we try out some of the things weve seen on TT. 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. I could have watched it for another 20 years. My heart goes out to his family. I have watched Time Team from the beginning and love the earlier episodes and although its sad that its going it has changed considerably.Not the same without Mick his enthusiasm makes for great watching. I download everything I can from the internet and watch on American PBS stations when I can find it. CHANNEL 4 you just do not know what you have done ! When he took this pitch to various studios, however, no one wanted to know. Who made the decision to axe time team but it is a mistake they will regret. What do we all enjoy about it? Channel 4 please think again you have made a monumental mistake! Despite the Ancient Monuments Laboratory having drawn a blank the year before, Johns state-of-the-art kit revealed the monastic complex in startling clarity. Self (as Prof. Stewart Ainsworth) Show all 219 episodes 1998 Time Team Extras (TV Series documentary) Self - High Worsall, North Yorkshire (1998) . Really gutted TT has finished, and shame on Channel 4 for this decision! There is more than enough rubbish shown on tv so why axe a good item that entertains, explains and raises more questions. Yes, Tony R was sometimes (often?) You only have to look at the demographic to see that a model was not going to be an asset to TT. I would be very happy, if it was revived. i believe everything has a lifespan, and that must include television shows. 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. Not all of us want mindless reality TV that costs a few bob to present. I have been planning to return for several years now for a holiday and to catch up with friends and relatives. However I would contact Channel Four to find out when they will be repeating it again and maybe arrange to record the programmes. Well Done Time Team, sad to hear you are soon to be no more. Best wishes to everyone ever involved with the show. Victor is a great artist and bought sites to life. Tony admitted a number of times that he is not an archeologist. Learning? I now look forward to watching as many individual shows as I can in the future. although a WONDERFUL outlet for the undoubted heroes, is not archaeology and not what I feel Time Team needs. I want Time Team brought back. What lies under the ground of the countrys past. So so sad, the only one of its kind and they axe it. Sorry I dont know how to do this! The money was well spent, and today only five Time Team sites remain unpublished a record that shames many UK units and academics. His passion for digging up relics, come rain or shine, is unparalleled. Channel 4 you need looking at!!! All the others as far back as 1828 from Ireland and Scotland. Whilst on youtube, also check out dig ventures; another fantastic project with another familiar face. Not on the Live I dug at. I have always loved history but the subjects in school were dull. 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