The UK is lucky that it has such a long history. Dues have been paid, so get Sir Tony back, along with some younger faces and writing talent, and get cracking on a new TIME TEAM !!! After playing a critical role in many of Time Team's digs, from the caves of Cheddar to the jungles of Nevis, Mick . What is the matter not retro enough for you ! It announced that after 20 seasons and over 230 episodes the programme was being axed by Channel 4. Tim Taylor recalls that some archaeologists were initially, quite fairly, a bit sceptical. One aspect that some treated with suspicion was the three-day deadline. Meet the Ancestors was also a good programme we need more Archaelogy programmes on TV. Archaeology enthusiast from Europe and the United States have long discovered the series. Its a shame we didnt see you and the team doing more international locations. Self (as Prof. Stewart Ainsworth) Show all 219 episodes 1998 Time Team Extras (TV Series documentary) Self - High Worsall, North Yorkshire (1998) . I would love to see as many of the team as posible brought together for specials or even to tell us what they are involved in now. Crazy. By the way, if the executives mild revamp caused viewer figures to plummet, how come it was the programme and not those executives who got the flak? I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the digs and finds discovered by the crew. 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. Buggering about with scheduling times has buggered many a decent tv series. I just love this programme and am very sad to hear that there will be no more. Time Team repeats on You Tube are helping to keep me sane during the Covid19 lockdown. Tony was the right man to present, no doubt about that. I watched every show, every season, and I never noticed that Tony had an obsession with Romans. Stewart has been interested in history since the age of eleven, after reading a book about Horatio Nelson. Dont judge based on the rubbish you get over there. Shattered. I am looking forward to the Village Dig series, when it eventually comes to the small screen. http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html In 1994 January 16th until 2012.rip time team along with mick Aston But TIME TEAM managed the impossible. As it was said at the start, they had to change it and then when it all went wrong blame someone else. All the repeats are still amazing, I also watch ime team every day without fail. 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. Time Team - Mick Aston (1946-2013) Mick Aston (1946-2013) Archaeological Consultant Professor Michael Antony 'Mick' Aston was Time Team's much-loved Archaeological Consultant. Southern Gaulish Samian ware, or Green Glaze, 14th Century. Observing how so many, different, recondite specialty fields come together paleopalynography. I have just found out about the decision by C4 to axe Time Team, which was surely one of the best programmes on any television station anywhere. Instead Time Teams format was radically overhauled. 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. Im 78 years old. 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. It also produces some amazing factual programmes to expand our knowledge and it is extremely worrying that the latter are being sacrificed for moronic programmes like Big Fat Gypsy Wedding which add nothing to our cultural enlightenment. If Channel 4 wish to cancel TT why not take it to another channel If jonathon Ross, Parky and Graham Norton can do it why not TT, No more Phil! What a shame to see TT let go. I have watched every episode from season 1, some many times. By
It was season 19 that changed everything. Perhaps one of the other channels will see the folly of C4s ways and pick up the program before its too late? 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. , Totally agree have enjoyed this programme since it started. We do have money too you know. Arrr! I really didnt like that nasty dendrochronologist who wouldnt show his results though idiot! Its the best show! 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 ! Channel 4 has just axed the best show on tv wont be watching channel 4 again, There will always be someone who knows what we like we to watch. i say dont be too quick to make a stupid decision. I would be very interested in acquiring DVDs of the whole series to watch at my leaisure. In 224 digs, Time Team revolutionised the presentation of archaeology on TV (which before had focussed largely on the Classical world), bringing Britain's heritage into our front rooms - and, in the early series, into our back gardens. I dont understand what purpose that serves, but there you have it. This photograph was taken at a recent catch-up with some of the Team: John Gater, Helen Geake, Carenza Lewis, Tim Taylor, Dani Wootton, Jim Mower, and Stewart Ainsworth, all of whom are . My husband said I bet you want to get Phill round now. I am devastated to hear about Mick Aston.. I never had any interest in my UK ancestors heritage and the conditions they must have endured until I watched the team in action. Thanks for the many years of wonderful, intelligent, entertainment Time Team, we will really miss you. Im the guy who set it up, iv got the page on Facebook, Twitter and the main website that i run. Thanks to you all. He trained as a surveyor before entering the archaeology section of the Ordnance Survey. Unlike many here, I think Mary Anne Ochota was a qualified addition to evolve and maintain the momentum of the series. However, they added: Intelligence, natural curiosity and a passion for archaeology is a must.. and long may you show them PLEASE pauline x, I am trying to get a contact e-mail address for Tim Taylor (IV) because a group of archeologists in Canada would like to see a Time Team Canada started and we need advice and any other help from the expert. 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. This show has been a wonderful joy to follow over the years, and I shall so miss it. I got fed up with running and prancing, daring to contradict real aercheologists. Mick, Tony Phil, Carenza Lewis, etc bring it back as there are no current programs that come close. Through understanding and helping to preserve the past, and sharing it with a worldwide audience, we hope to re-engage with the enthusiasm that so many of our fans have shown over the years., Many of the original team are already involved, both on and off screen. 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 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. 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. Just imagine all our Patreon subscribers sitting down to watch Time Team and thinking: We made this happen!. 2023. RIP Time Team. The show ran on the chemistry among the original team, and failed to work as they left or lost interest. Please bring back time team I do really miss watch it please please bring it back. Self Show all 7 episodes share. Hi Serena, you can find a complete episode and series guide of all 230 programmes plus the specials on this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Time_Team_episodes Plenty more to come for you yet, if only More 4 would stop repeating the same episodes over and over again and show some of the others they could keep you (and the rest of us) happy for years to come. catty remarks what catty remarks it is like every other tv program if it is not a soap opera or so called reality tv it gets brushed aside ch4 is one big yawn if you dont agree just what else is worth the price of electricity. Our family love TT and watch it together. here was atransfixing series, turning elitist subject into everyday knowledge for the ordinary man. The above link is a petition which was put together by Lee Brady. I and my husband have learned so much over the years (and are still learning): not only about archeaology itself, but about interpreting architecture, landscapes and social history, to name but three. TT changed how history programmes are made for UK TV for ever. The cast will be sorely missed. Shame on Chanel 4! I take my hat off to them. I agree entirely. 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. Jim summed up their approach as messing with something perfectly fine, and when it wasnt a success, blaming the people trying to make it work., Time Teams cost also made it vulnerable. In an interview with the magazine British Archaeology, Professor Aston said he was responding to changes first proposed by producers at Channel 4 in late 2010 before the filming of the series that is currently being aired. 7 comments. 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