Always worked so hard and made sense of sites that could have remained a mystery. (Bog Latin). Maybe the finding of Richard III might encourage a change of heart. Alarm bells began to ring for us when Mary-Anne appeared it seemed to coincide with a dumbing-down of the show. Long-serving archaeologists Helen Geake and Stewart Ainsworth would appear less often. 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. Not everyone takes change happily., The comments below have not been moderated, By I used to love all the research that they put into it. The Twitter page has been great up to now. The attempted dumbing down of Time Team smacks of dim executives meeting to dish corporate cliches out to one another. So thank you time team I hope someone with a brain brings it back. Its one of those few things in life that meant so much, really looked forward to every episode. The format was part of the problem. i record all the T T i can i have brought T t dvd. To an incredible all round team we thank you and to Phil damn we will miss you! Arrr! Years earlier, Sir Mortimer Wheeler did some Archaeology pgms on TV and they were always popular. Seasons 9-12 are often seen as Time Teams golden age. Stewart Ainsworth (born 26 June 1951) is a British archaeological investigator who was regularly seen on Time Team, the Channel 4 archaeological television series. In this months Science Notes, we will explore the evidence for this hypothesis, and examine how violence-related injuries are distinguished in archaeological human remains. Time Team turned this particular builder into a complete archaeological anorak and made one increasingly curmudgeonly old fart in a sweat stain hat the one person in the world Id most love to meet, hang out on a dig with and sink real ales with thereafter! The last series was disappointing without Helen and Stuart who were replaced by people without half their expertise. I will miss it desperately and want to say thank you to them all.. What a fantastic 20 years Bye bye Tme TeamI will care for Phils hat .. Its our favoite show. 2023 CURRENT PUBLISHING LTD - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. When he took this pitch to various studios, however, no one wanted to know. I always look forward to it when I get chance and to know that it is finishing is both shocking and disappointing. 7 comments. I wish! Their intention is to uncover the remains of a number of plantation houses that now are no more than ruins. Tony R told us that the fort was not connected by road What???? 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. Great format, educational safe family viewing. Thank you, thank you, Ive loved the passion, warmth, fun, humour and absolute professionalism that you all have brought to history. 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. 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. Spent time today discussing post-holes with a friend, others around thought we were crazy, but thats what Time Team was all about. Sad Time Team series being finished. Cheers. do they ever have reunions whereby you could meet the surviving characters.. i hate computers these days, they act up. A political gesture aimed at building up regional television, Time Team was picked because it seemed a safe pair of hands. Just did the same as Leigh trying to find out when the next series is due to start. Not everyone takes. Fabulous, thank you. When . 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. Why cant these so-called clever people just leave things alone. Yes, Phil can still shift the muck but check out his work on lithics studies and you might change your opinion. Am now in the process of buying the DVDs. Tags: What a disappointment that BBC4 chose to cancel the series! There is a focus on interesting, previously discovered, artefacts, while pipe music lends an almost mystical air to proceedings. A former academic at Bristol and Oxford universities, he has worked tirelessly to bring archaeology to a wider audience. This would be the only way of successfully reincarnating Time Team and fixing your pathetic and ignorant and unsuccessful changes. http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html & has never been more pi**ed off 2 here that its being Some single episodes already . People like myself really appreciate history coming to life as Time Team presented it. My parents watch it. It is obvious to me that they were always working on their format and that Tony was the TV guy while the others were the science folks. Was it her sultry beauty, or easy going attitude that rubs some the wrong way ? Far from a media concoction, the unique individuals on Time Team were filmed going about their work with an honesty and integrity that has seen the series heralded as Britains first reality television show. Like Paul said (June 23 comment) you wished you could join them in the pub at the end for a beer . The explanation for the end of Time Team is that the people who run Channel 4 are all about 12 years old. 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 just can not believe we will not see his fabulous jumpers again.. ( except in repeats of course ). We have several equally exciting sites lined up that we hope to investigate with support from our fans on Patreon., Already Patreon supporters have rallied behind another fantastic site a mysterious Iron Age settlement with underground passages in Cornwall. It needed to get back to its roots look at the early episodes to see why it was successful. However over the years TT seem to have worked on sites that have been known about for a long time, but have remained unexplored for whatever reason. Surely television that inspires interest and development is too good to lose? My second eldest is 18, and we only watch one program together as our interests are so different (that would be Time Team). During that time he deduced the towns Medieval layout. 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. He asks the questions that some people must be sat in front of their TV asking. and the entire bunch breathed fresh life into the sometimes boring subject of Archaeology. I want to salute everyone involved in this show! Log in or sign up to leave a comment. As a lowyal Time Team viewer from Australia, I am devastated. I made this ages ago and thought someone here MIGHT like it? Hi Alan, thanks a lot for your reply very helpful. I have been watching Time Team since its birth and can quite candidly say, I have never seen and enjoyed such a beautiful piece of television. I love a list and now I can tick off which ones Ive seen in a suitably anal fashion. I thought the programmes inspiring and my grief was genuine at its loss of experts like Mick Aston and the programmes ending.The occasional sighting of a long lost member like Carenza Lewis in a published Report makes me wish for the experience as it unfolded once again. Thank you all at Time Team for a wonderful 20 years. She was replaced by Helen Geake, Anglo-Saxon specialist. Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth on How To See Time In The Landscape. Dont let it stop you Margaret. (Then, of course, it goes straight to Hell). 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? Instead Time Teams format was radically overhauled. All the members of the team are keen to promote archaeology, I once witnessed Phil Harding rushing from trench to trench when TT were in York, stopping, turning off his radio and spending time talking to some enthusiastic kids about what he was doing, how he was doing it and why, the kids were transfixed by his enthusiasm, his ability to communicate his subject at many different levels being an inspiring sight. What are you going to replace it with? There are many pagan archeologists too. Have only just found out that Time Team has been axed after 20 years and I am gutted. The dig is important because the whole are is soon to be developed as a tourist complex with golf course. It was so pathetic, TT definitely doesnt need to have its memory sullied by association with the puerile crassness of the modern C4. We have it so easy in this day and age to compare to others in the past and we so loved it when Tony came to Australia and did some shows about our ancestral heritage,we all walk past so much and never notice whats in front of us,we miss so much rich knowledge right under our feet. 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. CHANNEL 4, YOU ARE A COMPLETE BUNCH OF IDIOTS!!!. Rest in peace, Mick, you added more to peoples lives than you probably ever realised. They should have known how appealing it would be. I am totally gutted to learn of the demise of TT. And as others have said, perhaps it could be resurrected on BBC4??? Re-assemble the team ! All the best shows are taken off and all we are left with is the boring and so untrue Archers. Sounds ageism to me, isnt that against the law now? His presentation throughout all of the series, which I have almost finished running though for the second time, is stellar. What on earth is going on and who is in charge of these moronic decisions! Last night (17 June 2014), they had a prominent, crude cartoon of a mans sexual equipment inserted into this highly humorous clip. 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. Totally agree. Ive binge watched Time Team on YouTube and up to S17. Some of them are dead, and the rest have moved on. A brief history of Time Team Time Team 's genesis is a well-rehearsed story. The writing was on the wall though poor scheduling . And really, TT changed my life! TT was an utter revelation. Alan Gale is 100% correct. Click Manage settings for more information and to manage your choices. Long-serving archaeologists Helen Geake and Stewart Ainsworth would appear less often. The site, discovered by historian and metal detectorist Keith Westcott after years of research, could be one of the biggest villas uncovered in recent times. They were like a 70s open university program with their hairstyles and clothes. Yes I agree I miss fresh episode aswell please come back, Yes I agree, the quality of weekend television is terrible give us back some interesting programs, Still record and watch the show love it all I can say is Bring back Time Team. 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. Gutted to learn it is no more. Very sad to hear Time Team is ending. 2012 was a very low point and i half expected it to end right then. 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. Discovered Time Team after visiting U.K. I am watching repeats on Yesterday but hate the constant adverts. 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!) This is a project in its preliminary stages, run by Tim Taylor. Now I have no reason what ever to watch ch 4 now or in the future . I agree entirely. Tony Robinson, global warming? And key graphic purporting to show the significant shift in building alignments between two phases did not actually do that but simply repeated the original layout! Its always sad when a long running and reputable series ends. RIP Time Team. I wish I could study with Mick Ashton. 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. 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. Emails,from those who have just learned that TT was cancelled a year ago are still dropping into my in box. For those too grief stricken to cope right now, subscribe to the youtube video blog of Dig Village. time team has over the years discovered great things. With Phil Harding also on board, three members of the future Time Team core were in place. Series Producer and creator of Time Team, Tim Taylor says . Im in my mid 40s. 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. (3 different history channels, Discovery channel, Travel channel, Military channel, National Geographic channel the list goes on and on. We live in USA. Great memories sadly missed. Time Team excavations at Binchesters Roman fort also helped kickstart a research project that is still in rude health (see CA 263). After playing a critical role in many of Time Team's digs, from the caves of Cheddar to the jungles of Nevis, Mick . Apart from the marvellous people who made up the Time Team over the years, the way they used the magic of television to highlight features of the dig, overlay geophys visualisations onto the site, extend a fragment of a pot into a full representation, and so on, made this program an exemplar of how to produce truly educational television; and the way the passion of the Team members and their expertise was allowed to shine, coupled with a witty front man, showed that educational does not have to mean dull or dumbed down. Im sorry no-ones put in a word for the lovely Raksha always good-natured, hard working and incredibly knowledgeable. This is in no doubt as a direct result of the post production. 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. 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. I therefore conclude that the program is enjoyed by audiences of all ages. A monumental row and walk out, one would guess. But thanks guys and I am pretty sure that someone somewhere will pick up the baton. 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. document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a3c3c528f5d4ab9be4dd73fd43d71409" );document.getElementById("ac59ec51d8").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Latest news from our sister site, the-past.com. Sadly, my wife passed away in January 2012 but I carried on watching it until it ended. He has since appeared in over two hundred episodes. there was total outrage and ABC picked it up with the two oldies . As others have said, lets hope that the B.B.C. i like everything about it. 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. I just love this programme and am very sad to hear that there will be no more. 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. 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. yours MRS HILDA LESLEY CARRINGTON. In terms of Cotswolds villas Time Team has probably covered more of them than anyone else. 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]. This informative, interesting program has long been a favourite amongst all ages of our family. I enjoyed the later seasons in HD quality quite a lot, and I wish they would keep going for 20 more years. Many of my friends would love to travel to the UK because of shows like Time Team and Escape to the country. I loved Mick and Phil and Stuart et all, picking on Matt for any rotton job. I am American and Time Team is my favorite program. Stewart has always been my top hero too, although I loved everyone without exception till the changes happened. Jim describes this miscalculation as a death blow, which cost the show almost all of its behind the scenes staff. 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. However BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a state-owned institution from inter-war origins. It will be sad for it to end, but theres still a few epsiodes I havent seen. Are any available at the moment does anyone know? In 2005, Carenza Lewis left to pursue other interests. The message was simple: this is local archaeology, it is your archaeology. 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. However, as a viewer I hugely enjoyed the opportunity to share in the Teams excitement. I have loved Time Team since episode 1, and have never, not once, missed an episode. 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. The major players seem tired and cranky, and while they are all professionals and are trying very hard to be positive and upbeat, its obvious that they are trying, and that ruins it. And so disappointed in ch4. If there had been a mission statement for the show during those early days, it would have been the democratisation of archaeology. 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.). Without Mick Aston it will not be the same, but as such it will be a fitting tribute to a great forward thinking man. Channel 4 obviously think we are all brain dead morons who need to watch the endless mind numbing soaps or the even more pathetic American rubbish that now dominates our screens. We love Time Team and are astonished at its demise. I enjoy his style of presentation. Margie, NZ fingers crossed, The show never recovered from the loss of Faye Simpson in my opinion. He is 10. The regular team also included: Stewart Ainsworth, landscape investigator; John Gater and Chris Gaffney, archaeological geophysicists; Henry Chapman, surveyor; and Victor Ambrus, illustrator. There is a market here to be tapped. Headed by D Macall. I am appalled. The above link is a petition which was put together by Lee Brady. 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