If there had been a mission statement for the show during those early days, it would have been the democratisation of archaeology. How DARE they axe Time Team, it has been one of my few regular watches for a long time. I am so sad and gutted Time Team has been axed. While the allure of such sites created a powerful television spectacle, it also marked a move away from the programmes humble local archaeology origins. For how many years were John Gater and Stuart Ainsworths technical expertise presented as a pat cliche when the work of either could have been expanded? look forward to some more american rubbish or more twits in big brother type of rubbish. What a shame to see it go, but what a swan song. So why could it not continue on and evolve in 2013 ? I also never felt patronised by Tony Robinson, and loved the way he frequently asked questions that the audience would have wanted to know themselves. My nineteen year old daughter has always been passionate about having a career in archaeology even more so now. well done on ending one of the best programs on tele. Hopefully, but unlikely, someone will gather the real TT people and give it a rebirth. Watching how the team coalesce over time and their skills mature. will take it on. I have several friends who are serious archaeologists who have been dismissive of this program over the years, some of their comments about the lack of time for each dig are valid. It is amazing to contemplate the staggering amount of archaeology lurking beneath the surface of the whole of the British Isles. So thank you time team I hope someone with a brain brings it back. anyone want to correspond about this i would like for them to write me. My eldest son is now 19 and guess what he is studying at University (say no more) thank you Time Team. Maybe it was better to end the show before they replaced the entire cast with celebrities from TOWIE. I was surfing the internet to obtain correct titles for some episodes that I recorded earlier. And the team. I loved every minute of it. And so disappointed in ch4. Sadly,she passed away 2 years ago but before she went, she told me not to forget to watch TT. Learned lots of the history of the show from these posts but I dont know whether Ive seen the cleavage or whether Micks absence from a dig is because hes doing something else, on hols etc or because hes gone. Learning? Thanks to you all. 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 only have to look at the great interest shown over Richard III to realise that yes there is a market for a programme of this nature. Yes, it was a great show, but its over now. I therefore conclude that the program is enjoyed by audiences of all ages. But the professor, 65, said that changes to the programme which have led to the introduction of co-presenter Mary-Ann Ochota and the dropping of some archaeologists had left him really angry. 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. Thats fairly unusual.. Ridiculous. The more TV appeal execs tried to inject, the less people wanted to watch. C4 have put money into British Archaeology, when no one else could or would presumably, and as has been pointed out, much of that money went into post excavation work, which although not good TV is absolutely vital as far as each site is concerned. 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. Its the best show! Sad Time Team series being finished. Bring them back ! 20 years is a great run for any show on TV. Strata indeed! what fools these youngsters are. Phil is fantastic as he has always been. and which would be the best way to alienate the people working on the programme. An episode where a workplace expert was on stand by for structural shoring when common sense would have not wasted this kind of expense. Carenzas missing as is Helen, I see Mick walked out as I also presume Stewart has too. 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. Wasnt TT the only reason to watch Channel 4 ? Its one of those few things in life that meant so much, really looked forward to every episode. I think Tony is a good fit for this program. I have watched Time Team from day one, and now my 11 and 9 year old daughters love to watch it, in fact my youngest commented she would like to be an archaeologist when she grows up, and this is from watching Time Team, I cannot believe Time Team has been axed, its a national institution. Dont judge based on the rubbish you get over there. . Thank you for educating and entertaining me over the years. Whats wrong with cozy? Yet time and time again they did it with grace, charm, humor and knowledge. Its interesting that Ch 4 is dropping a program on history and education, are they really dumbing down to suit a younger age group whose programs contain bad language smut and sex, bad attitudes and a large sense of self. archaeology..is what my 11 year old gran daughter is looking into training for..shows like these are needed more. 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. Inspiring stuff. Would love to see a new Time Team series up and running again especially now theyve found King Richard llls body, also instead of 3 days to uncover make it a 5-7 days to uncover maybe Geo-physics could find out a lot more information so here is a challenge to all the mainstream TV channels bring back Time Team! Time Team: Created by Tim Taylor. If ever there is a petition to bring this back, count me in. We are headed to the UK in May from the US to see some of the TT sites. Ive watched TT for years now and thoroughly enjoyed it. The final piece of the jigsaw fell into place during the fledgling Time Teams first episode. Long gone are the back garden digs. This show has been a wonderful joy to follow over the years, and I shall so miss it. I ask other time team regulars get writing and see if time team can be saved either by another tv station or a rethink by channel 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRe_gMtXNo. Sounds like a bargain to me, how much do the BBC spend on the series presented by David Attenborough? I am sooooo sorry the series is over. It was so pathetic, TT definitely doesnt need to have its memory sullied by association with the puerile crassness of the modern C4. 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 have watched Time Team for years as has my son and many many friends. I loved every member of the cast and crew. 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. Try Dig Ventures, an online crowd-funded Archaeology site. Think again C4, as someone who is 40 years outside your target audience, all axing this program has done is make me switch channels, so demographically relevant or not you have simply lost another viewer and surely viewer numbers are more important than some misguided attempt to only appeal to a certain age group? I have been planning to return for several years now for a holiday and to catch up with friends and relatives. Mick mentioned that he had recently missed a train and, having a couple of hours to kill, decided to explore. I just can not believe we will not see his fabulous jumpers again.. ( except in repeats of course ). YOU HAVE JUST NOT THOUGHT THIS THROUGH! (But not, ever, I would agree, grinning totty!) 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. http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html. In a nutshell, that is the most relevant comment I have read on here. C4 what are you doing timeteam is a great show now u r going to put more rubbish on like big brother I know it not on your channel no more what a shame timeteam will b missed go on bbc take it on, Timeteam what a great show now we got to put up with shows like splash and x factor what is going on with tv now god help. Yes, Tony R was sometimes (often?) I watch any that come on now.. saw one yesterday about the digging our of the 2 world war planes in the bogs.. Bringing history to life is far from an easy task but the combination of the experts knowledge, Tony Robinsons ability to act as the interested layman asking questions that the audience wanted to know the answers to, as well as the interaction and camaraderie between the members of the team I felt worked really well. 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. We are a large audience. Shattered. 2017, My husband and I decided to get rid of our tv when we had 2 young sons. The attempted dumbing down of Time Team smacks of dim executives meeting to dish corporate cliches out to one another. Tim Team has finally brought British history into focus for me. The thrill of time running out also engaged viewers, and Time Teams popularity was rewarded with increasingly longer series. Now British television can be as dumbed down and offensive as American television has become. Watched it since the beginning, some great episodes and fantastic digs. Only problem is the core members are getting on a bit, so no chance of it going another 20 years. The enthusiasm shown by the crews, the information, the chance to get a flavour of what made our country and the historical influences in each area. TT was an utter revelation. The writing was on the wall when it regularly began featuring cleavage shots of diggers and the dreaded re-enactments. Just been reading all the comments, and a lot of sensible thinhs have been said, and a few stupid ignorant ones as well. Instead John Gater, the programmes geophys wizard (see CA 252), surveyed the field. I wish! Closed minds achieve nothing in life. My nana came from England in 1901. Am now in the process of buying the DVDs. 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! Discovered Time Team after visiting U.K. Your sorrow will be eased by the sight of a few old, friendly faces. 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. Im in my mid 40s. the only programmes on t v seems to me rubbish what are all the staff going to do as they have been on the show for so long. Failing that I can recommend looking at Google Maps satellite pictures of your local area looking for earthworks hours of fun! Stewart Ainsworth (born 26 June 1951) is a British archaeological investigator who was regularly seen on Time Team, the Channel 4 archaeological television series. 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! Many of us have watched Time Team for ages and have been educated (along with Tony) on the ins and outs of Archaeology and did not need another presenter to ask superfluous questions (nice though she was). 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)? I am sure there are more sites for them to investigate. If an episode costs 200,000 and average 1.5 million viewers, would 1 million be willing to pay 20p via mobile phone or subscription towards making it, or 400,000 willing to pay 50p per episode? Speak for your self! Cutting some excellent TV and radio presenters in favor of younger ones. very sad. After a career as a professional geologist I researched for a PhD at the Palace of Knossos on Crete. ! This once innovative and ground breaking channel has started to descent to almost ITV 1 depths of dumbing down in recent years, it certainly isnt the channel that Jeremy Isaccs created anymore. and the entire bunch breathed fresh life into the sometimes boring subject of Archaeology. 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 think weve brought it into the forefront of peoples attention. I think he was a lovely man SO SAD ! Stewart Ainsworth (born 26 June 1951) is a British archaeological investigator who was regularly seen on . Is there any posibility of obtaining a copy of this and the program on the barge in the river Rhine. 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. Maybe the finding of Richard III might encourage a change of heart. Thank you, thank you, Ive loved the passion, warmth, fun, humour and absolute professionalism that you all have brought to history. Such an approach was perfectly realised by Graham Dixon, the director of the first few seasons. Jim Mower (development producer, see his opinion piece here) believes that Phil Hardings material was among the most innovative. [emailprotected]. 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. 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