A good friend of mine was a guest archaeologist on several T.T programmes and it was my good fortune to go along on production. They have onbly made a couple of mistakes, 1 was letting Mick go and the other was axing Time Team. Condolences on your chronic issue with clever people. TT is very fun to watch after nearly 30 years from the first episodes; watching the GeoPhysics change from season to season (week to week for me as I binge) is great for this engineer. Last night (17 June 2014), they had a prominent, crude cartoon of a mans sexual equipment inserted into this highly humorous clip. There were times when I would have liked to see some longer digs being featured and I would still like to see that, but it seems likely that it will not be Channel 4 doing it. IT DID NOT NEED JAZZING UP. 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. Maybe one day she will say sorry to us all. Please bring Time Team back. Totally gutted Time Team is going. I have loved Time Team for years and wish that there were not so many bone heads in Channel 4. 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? Have a look again at the programme where Phils DNA results come in and watch Tonys reaction. A few years earlier Tony Robinson had joined a trip Mick was leading to Santorini as part of his adult education work for Bristol University. Much better than most of the rubbish we get now that there are so many channels chasing adverts & broadcasting ever increasing repeats. Watching how the team coalesce over time and their skills mature. Congratulations to all concerned on a great program. very sad day that channel 4 are taking time team off the air.when time team started my husband and watch the show and we were hooked from then on. anyway the technology is facinating and makes history come alive. Yes, Phil can still shift the muck but check out his work on lithics studies and you might change your opinion. 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! I loved watching Time Team in Australia, way better than the American version. And the team. I do agree, bringing the new blood in(an ex model, who I dont think was all that good looking) without consulting certain long standing experts, was wrong. and the entire bunch breathed fresh life into the sometimes boring subject of Archaeology. Beautifully expressed, Andrew. We live in USA. I love the show, and I have also fallen in love wit Faye Simpson. If those of us who have never met him mourn today, how much more must his friends and family be feeling his passing? 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). It has also helped me find out more about my own history that goes back to U.K. Have caught onto Time Team on the History Channel. Show creator Tim Taylor has since confirmed they will begin work on two new YouTube episodes, with two more in . He also took part in the various spin-off series such as Time Team Extra (1998), Time Team Digs (2002) and Time Team Live. do they ever have reunions whereby you could meet the surviving characters.. i hate computers these days, they act 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. Why is it that when you get a winning format, which TT clearly is, you get the morons in suits, who obviously havent a clue what the audience want, having to justify their existence by changing things. RIP Mick Aston How about a petition to Channel 4 demanding its continuation? Channel 4 you need looking at!!! i believe everything has a lifespan, and that must include television shows. Find out more here. The format changed and little was really seen of the dig. Tony was very good at being the non-archeologist and I salute him! Youve said it all, I totally agree! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRe_gMtXNo. I have watched this program over the life of its showing and as a saturday morning archaeologist I was challenged to dig deeper (pun intended) by reading more into the theory and practice of archaeology. 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. Always will be in my heart! time team was one of the best progs ever. Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Emmys Hispanic & Latino Voices STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events. But its also the fact that they didnt just impart accumulated knowledge, they made new discoveries as we watched. So sad to hear that it came to an end. His role translating archaeology into laymens terms was pure genius. My politics are not Tony Robinsons or Mick Astons, but both deserve warm congratulations for what they did for archaeology and viewers over two decades.Tony Robinson seems to be largely responsible for the successful populist formula, the zest and the humourand the succinct resumes to stop viewers getting flummoxed., He deserves a knighthood but presumably he would just wrinkle his nose. Ive learned that anything classed as experimental Is just filler as theyve found nothing. Seeing an entire brigade of scientists down at the pub for lunch made the show so human and readily acceptable. Hi. Pity arise Sir Phil???? How come journalists never seem to tell us these sorts of things? What about the good time team has done? Is Phil Harding from Time Team still alive? It will be interesting to see how the new Village Dig series comes across on TV. 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? We are headed to the UK in May from the US to see some of the TT sites. Time Team brought archaeology to the publics attention (including mine) and will be sorely missed. It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but it was heading there. I have been in awe of the items the team dig up and the re-constructions. Such a great programme. Prior to us, by and large archaeology was something you could only really appreciate if you read books with long words in them. now I rely on repeats. I wish! Well Done Time Team, sad to hear you are soon to be no more. Despite some great new people who learnt fast, expecting them to produce the same calibre of product immediately was just too big a demand. Only problem is the core members are getting on a bit, so no chance of it going another 20 years. Incidentally, to my British friends & fellow TT fans I have to say that I agree with the comments in this thread that the American shows that BBC chooses to air in the UK are garbage, but what a shame the excellent documentaries and history-related productions are not offered in your part of the world. ABC altered the format marginally and called it At the Movies. What about the number of times they were wrong? 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. I note that none of them ever received a gong. And of course who can ever forget Helen Geakes dress sense and haircuts ! Good job I have the internet to log onto. And this program had run its course several years ago. Sounds like a bargain to me, how much do the BBC spend on the series presented by David Attenborough? I am still watching episodes on Yesterday that Id somehow missed. & has never been more pi**ed off 2 here that its being Filmed at Athelney, site of Alfred the Greats apocraphal burnt cakes, the site was scheduled, precluding excavation. 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. 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. Time Team To Be Reinstated! Lee, viewer outrage worked in Australia with The Movie Show. and use my iPad to follow through my own enquirers. Raksha Dave from Time Team is part of it. (Then, of course, it goes straight to Hell). Dec 19. Please read. Love the show and all the characters especially Phil! 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. Mick played a less prominent part in Time Team after an episode of illness in 2003, and in 2012 he left the programme after criticising a reduction in its academic standards. I wonder how much is wasted on their wages. My oldest son and my husband dream of being as good in tapping flint as Phil! How very sad. I cannot believe that there will be no more Time Team, I hope the idiots at channel 4 read this site. The ground-breaking history series presented by Tony Robinson helped to popularise the field of archaeology and has since been watched in over 40 countries worldwide! The focus groups of today, the council chambers of yesteryear; all determined to make their mark, put their talent on show. I hope that someone has the sense to resorect TT even if it is repeated from the beginning. I have been planning to return for several years now for a holiday and to catch up with friends and relatives. How do you know if theres a virus on your phone? On the other hand, all good things come to an end. The comment by Peter Thomas is excellent and is a very eloquent summation. Didnt like the changes either to the team it change the dynamics of the program but kept watching anyway. A relative alerted us to Time Team knowing.my husband and I were long term enthusiasts. My youngest is 10 and has been a fan from as early as I can remember, he has his own dig at the bottom of our garden and a massive fossil collection. This was the best educational programme that I looked forward to every week and also all the repeats that were broadcast on more 4. Very sad that all great things have to come to an end one day. It is a great shame it is finishing and I am very sad!! Brilliant. I think weve brought it into the forefront of peoples attention. Channel 4 has lost one viewer it wont get back. This page was last edited on 1 January 2023, at 22:21. God, is there nothing for older viewers who actually like to think? Schooled in observational documentaries, Graham followed the digs as they evolved. maybe someone will dig you out of the tombs of c4 in time. 2003Michelle Johnsonm. My wife Ida & I never missed a program for years. RIP Channel 4. Channel 4 is a crude simulacrum of its original self and I agree that BBC 4 would be TTs natural home.Id love to see the old Time Team reunited Ill live in hope! But thanks guys and I am pretty sure that someone somewhere will pick up the baton. 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. I will be saddened to see Time Team go, but I agree that the production costs could realistically be reduced. 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. I speculate that Mr Bushs rant is based upon nothing more than jealousy over the fact that Mr Harding has obviously learned one more word than him whilst digging those big holes! 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. Carenzas missing as is Helen, I see Mick walked out as I also presume Stewart has too. In their defence producer Graham Dixon issued this statement: "It's not just a steady decline in interest in archeology, with shows being pushed back to ever more obscure digital channels. Harding. Thanks to all who were involved in Time Team in any way. All of the team can be proud of 20 years of quality television and the many lives touched and informed. 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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRe_gMtXNo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Time_Team_episodes, I Have Fallen In Love With Land Rover Freelander! Instead Time Teams format was radically overhauled. Time Team isnt the same without Mick and Phill is the token hot tottie (uh hum!) However BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a state-owned institution from inter-war origins. 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. Sir Tony I salute you and the team,its been a good innings! Thats fairly unusual.. 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. [5][6][7], In 2010, the radio series A History of the World in 100 Objects featured Harding speaking on the creation of pre-historic stone tools. Its a shame we didnt see you and the team doing more international locations. Imagine Harrison Ford as an ageing hippy with a Wessex burr after several pints of real ale . To an incredible all round team we thank you and to Phil damn we will miss you! Exploring the archaeology of the Roadford Reservoir, Devon, this came about after Tim Taylor approached Mick Aston to present the series. I watched every show, every season, and I never noticed that Tony had an obsession with Romans. I AM SO UPSET AT THE ENDING OF TIME TEAM ! Meet the Ancestors was also a good programme we need more Archaelogy programmes on TV. Obviously I am not the only Australian (albeit English-born) to miss Time Team. 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. What a hero! The site is of national importance and we couldnt hope for a better team to help uncover its secrets., Time Teams return has had the backing of many celebrity fans, from Sir Michael Morpurgo and Bernard Cornwell to Philippa Gregory, Kate Mosse and Ken Follett. I think the writing was on the wall when the powers that be messed about with it, moving its base to Cardiff and losing quality staff and goodwill. What will Ch4 spend its money on now, even more American imports? Surely television that inspires interest and development is too good to lose? Now, many dislike Tony as he is renowned to be a woke leftist with an attitude, but as a presenter, I thought he did magnificently well. 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. Can anyone help us with the contact? 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. or anyone with an IQ of 50 and below, or the attention span a bit longer than a small herring. Channel 4s choices are definitely a bit strange to many of us. He only lives about 10 miles away. Do specials instead of a series. I had no idea it had finished. Best of all, the cameras were rolling to capture the archaeologists euphoria as the geophysical plot emerged from a bulky printer in the back of the survey vehicle. 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. And there is still so much they can show and teach us. Mick, Tony Phil, Carenza Lewis, etc bring it back as there are no current programs that come close. I am totally gutted to learn of the demise of TT. So sad to see my favourite programme on Channel 4 being axed. Or are we all to turn off our televisions once we reach 40? But after well over a decade on screen, and 20 series (comprising some 280 shows in all), things began to change. I am devastated to hear about Mick Aston.. I have scoured the Internet watching every episode I can find, some more than once. sundays seem empty without my time team fix. What a great show. Find Phil Harding's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading people search directory for contact information and public records. Phil Harding and family at Buckingham Palace, 12 December 2006. 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. Was it one persons requirements that brought extras into the show, persons not wanted nor needed, also not as talented as a walnut. Now I will be stuck with overproduced, watered down supposedly historically accurate twaddle , We held a bit of a poll a few years ago with the Pagan Federation as to what the favourite TV programme was. I download everything I can from the internet and watch on American PBS stations when I can find it. 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