I will miss Mick and Phil and Tony. Its the best show! The technology now at our disposal, and a new generation of archaeologists joining the team, is a fantastic prospect. Have watched 8 seasons and enjoying them all. And they have taken it off and broken up a brilliant team. Most of what I feel about the demise of TT has already been said here. if there is a petition please let me know.i would like to put our names down. Hated that glamour woman simply the wrong feel.. Very, very sorry that management mis-handling killed it. Loved Time Team and will miss it [endless repeats are not the same but I still find myself watching them anyway]. At least we can watch past programmes on More 4 on on the On Demand. What a great show. And a pint or 2 as well, EUTOPIA. 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! I love watching the old episodes, the ones where there was fantastic camaraderie between the team, excellent and atmospheric music in the background which always complemented the era of the dig and the extravagant clothing worn by the team. Apparently, there was plenty of dirt being dug off camera, thanks largely to the people up top. You can never run out of history in Britain. Loved the history of U.K. Mick, Tony Phil, Carenza Lewis, etc bring it back as there are no current programs that come close. Channel 4 has lost one viewer it wont get back. The team of Tony, Mick, Phil, Stuart, John, Carenza, Brigid, Guy, etc etc filled me with warmth and satisfaction. Innit? Thats fairly unusual.. Thanks Julia and Lizbeth. Log in or sign up to leave a comment. Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth: Rivers & Roads | Ancient Routes - Landscape Archaeology 46,819 views Premiered Jan 29, 2022 Join us, as Time Team's Landscape Archaeologist Stewart. RIP Time Team. I was devastated to hear of the demise of this wonderful programme, but once they made the decision to bring in the awful Mary Ann Ochota as a co-presenter, the programme was doomed. Have only just found out that Time Team has been axed after 20 years and I am gutted. 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. For those too grief stricken to cope right now, subscribe to the youtube video blog of Dig Village. It is just so sad to read all of these comments, like a requiem for a friend. The only thing that surprises me is that they didnt include a so called comedian. There is a market here to be tapped. Will miss them! But TIME TEAM managed the impossible. . But maybe it is time and we need to move on. In 1994 January 16th until 2012.rip time team along with mick Aston For me Time Team was a cultural oasis in a desert of dumb and lazy TV. With the archaeologists at the height of their game, by now the team was so confident of the three-day regime that development producer Jim Mower describes their appearance on site as like getting the A Team in. I have watched Time Team since day one, and until the last two or three series have always enjoyed it. The foregoing is an exhausting but entertaining read. Ive loved Time Team since day one, but recently Ive found it becoming a little too cozy. 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! Time Team has left a legacy that few TV programs can match and im sure that generations to come will enjoy. Thank you. What a shame to see TT let go. 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? Its a wonder one isnt constantly tripping over roman floor tiles and Anglo-Saxon wine jugs every time one steps out of ones door. Ok BBC4, its time for you to take Time Team. And thank you Mick, R.I.P. Ridiculous. When he took this pitch to various studios, however, no one wanted to know. I still watch the series on U-tube. Robinson has been a superb presenter and long may he continue on historical based series . Tony Robinsons role seems to one of a viewer who does not completely understand what is going on although logic says he must have a reasonable knowledge of the subject. It is the ONLY program I think worth watching in all the rubbish put on these days ! Learning? I have watched every episode from season 1, some many times. 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 made this ages ago and thought someone here MIGHT like it? While Time Team unquestionably experienced problems, particularly in its final years, this much-loved show was an astonishing success, propelling modern archaeology into the public conscious as never before. God, is there nothing for older viewers who actually like to think? Were currently watching the last episodes, with the delightfully enthusiastic Francis Pryor, on ABC TV in Melbourne, and we love em, even if there arent always lots of finds. and which would be the best way to alienate the people working on the programme. Yes,he was often guilty of playing the devils advocate, but at such times he was the voice of many of us upon listening to yet another gigantic leap of hastily constructed faith or explanation of purpose for the sake of the less informed viewing massive. Self - Aston Eyre, Shropshire (1998) . My enduring memory of Tony Robinson during Time Team filming is him spending several hours of every day asleep in a massive American car with the engine running. It was the highlight of my life ! This has to be one of the biggest tragedies of modern television times. we dont want more programmes that is rubbish there is more than i could even say. He trained as a surveyor before entering the archaeology section of the Ordnance Survey. and use my iPad to follow through my own enquirers. The thing that should be axed is the TV exec that made that decision. (But not, ever, I would agree, grinning totty!) R.i.P. Shows that actually ADD something GOOD to the mix. Thank you all for giving us years of delight and thank God for DVDs. This is true Reallity Television. I am signing up to the campaign to keep Time Team! Reason: we hardly spoke to each other and what we were watching on tv was hardly worthwhile. Time team seemed to be excavating at the behest of large bodies like English Heritage and the National Trust, not some amateurs or local individuals. It needed to get back to its roots look at the early episodes to see why it was successful. It is made up of real people and I have learnt so much from it. It may not have been archaelogical perfection but it did make archaeology appealing to many and did digs that no one had the funds or interest to do. Mick the Dig joined Time Team early on as our resident excavation supervisor and was personally responsible for Time Team's biggest ever hole - at Blaenavon, Wales (an honour that looks unlikely to be beaten any time soon!). Hello from the US. I am watching repeats on Yesterday but hate the constant adverts. All the repeats are still amazing, I also watch ime team every day without fail. I loved the banter between Tony, Phil and Mick and anyone could see they enjoyed their jobs. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Promotion of family values good natured banter and above all a love of the past which TT has shared with us over the years is disposed of Shame, Shame, Shame. I dread to think just where the Television industry is looking for its viewers In the Night Garden. Mick, and Phil, and even Tony all made a significant contribution to our understanding archaeology and they way in which it can inform us of our past. Come on BBC . We are headed to the UK in May from the US to see some of the TT sites. Ive learnt so much and enjoying every minuteo. My own favourite was Stuart, to see him on his bike or wandering around looking at the landscape with his ability to fit any site into its landscape. What a wonderful 20 years we/they had. The Aussie fans are disappointed too that T T will be finishing up. Whilst on youtube, also check out dig ventures; another fantastic project with another familiar face. The key participants deserve a rest at their age, and the joy obviously just wasnt there. As for the rest of the Team, hats off to you for the great fun and excellent archaeology looking forward to a few TT specials. But would be top stuff if BBC 4 could pick it up and get things back on track. Long-serving archaeologists Helen Geake and Stewart Ainsworth would appear less often. Disgusted, Mick walked out, explaining later For some reason they didnt think oh, wed better run that past Mick. Hes the archaeological consultant, he might have an opinion about that (see CA 271). As it was said at the start, they had to change it and then when it all went wrong blame someone else. The beginnings of Time Team: season 1 stalwarts (from left to right) Mick Aston, Victor Ambrus, Phil Harding, Geraldine Barber, Carenza Lewis, Tony Robinson, and Robin Bush. It announced that after 20 seasons and over 230 episodes the programme was being axed by Channel 4. If you ever wanted to check anything academically, you ran a brick wall which amply demonstrated it was seen by C4 as a Reallity show, complete with Dymock shots. My nana came from England in 1901. Shades of the quiz-show concept do survive into early episodes of Time Team proper. 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. Hated that they axed Mick Aston and brought in other new people!!! I feel really, really angry about it. You should be ashamed of yourselves, especially the way you have treated Mick Aston after all those years of dedicated service. Towards the end of its run an average episode would cost around 200,000 a budget more on the scale of a small drama show in the eyes of television insiders but over 20 years Channel 4 pumped 4 million directly into British archaeology. For years I had little interest in any of it but as time went by this programme made me interested. I enjoyed the later seasons in HD quality quite a lot, and I wish they would keep going for 20 more years. Ive got to say I think he handled the shows well. The attempted dumbing down of Time Team smacks of dim executives meeting to dish corporate cliches out to one another. I didnt always like the reenactments but it was interesting when they dealt with diet and medical issues. I had no idea it had finished. I know we have no Roman history, but there are thousands of of places that date back thousands of years. I wonder whether the viewing figures took in the worldwide audience I know lots of people watched and enjoyed it here in Australia. 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. Oh! 200k an episode? I am so sad and gutted Time Team has been axed. What is the point of Channel 4, if not to do something different? ! The original team brought an impressive breadth of skills to the programme. It was over when Mick went AWOL. Southern Gaulish Samian ware, or Green Glaze, 14th Century. Observing how so many, different, recondite specialty fields come together paleopalynography. Sounds ageism to me, isnt that against the law now? Perhaps if Chanel 4 had stuck to the old adage of if it aint broke, dont fix it we would still have had this gem of a program to look forward to enjoying for many years to come.. with shows like Strictly Come Dancing, X Factor, Dancing on Ice, Big Brother etc etc etc all being aired every week, Time Team was an oasis of entertainment and education in a vast desert of mundane TV programming. She completely ruined it, and led to Mick Aston walking out on the show. I take my hat off to them. We live in USA. Channel 4s loss their gain :) I loved it and speaking as an Hibernian, the only thing I found mildly irritating was Tonys obsession with all things Roman. His passion for digging up relics, come rain or shine, is unparalleled. It is located on the Broughton Estate in Oxfordshire, belonging to the Fiennes family. Do 5 day digs instead. The worst thing they did was sex it up. Maybe one day she will say sorry to us all. Maybe it was better to end the show before they replaced the entire cast with celebrities from TOWIE. i believe everything has a lifespan, and that must include television shows. I am going to miss the show. Time Team return, Time Team is coming back, Following the successful launch of a fan-led Patreon campaign in December, Time Team has now confirmed what could be the first of many digs. Their presentation skills are very good indeed and could develop even more if the programme continued (not with Channel 4 please); eg Tracey, Jimmy, Susannah, not to mention Raksha, Matt, Paul, Helen, John and Stuart, all of whom are young enough to take over from the elder statesmen who could still guest if they do choose to retire one day! A relative alerted us to Time Team knowing.my husband and I were long term enthusiasts. 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. Lee, viewer outrage worked in Australia with The Movie Show. I generally watch one episode a night, but on weekends I sometimes binge watch until my eyeballs beg for mercy. BRING IT BACK. Shame I can now only watch it at 5am on the History channel. What a bunch of idiots. Poor second best but something is better than nothing. Stranger things have happened! 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. Cutting some excellent TV and radio presenters in favor of younger ones. Who is Mary Ann & what does she bring to the table? Admittedly, in the last year or so I have found myself increasingly disinterested in the programme. A family programe deleted. I am still watching episodes on Yesterday that Id somehow missed. Shame on Chanel 4! I am sure there are more sites for them to investigate. Didnt like the changes either to the team it change the dynamics of the program but kept watching anyway. I have watched most episodes many times and it is a joy to come across one I have never seen before. 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. My favourite show. She studied at University College London and University of York, specialising in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. Have a look again at the programme where Phils DNA results come in and watch Tonys reaction. An absolute feast of mind, interest and the ever curiosity of young and old alike about What lie underneath that humble plot of soil?.TIme Team approached that humble plot we would all like to delve into.they bring that knowledge of how with them and together unveal little glimspes of anothers past which we back bring here, to today.as a reflection and connection.like a mirror between centuries and timesand sunrises and pleasant breezes of a long ago Sunday afternoon, I thought it was the Bi..o presenter the doomed it for sure, brought in because we are all suddenly dumb. What a disappointment that BBC4 chose to cancel the series! Im sure it was meant to interest younger viewers in Archeology, a noble enough concept. Us all. This so Heartbreaking. She joined the frontline team of presenters, for the 2006 series and continued until 2010. 1951. John and his team must have walked miles. Hi. Never having been colonized by them I guess we in Ireland may have a slightly less reverential view of their civilizing effect on the native culture. Agree 100%, they should have left it well alone. I just love the way English history came alive & feel like the team must have lots of fun doing this job.I was hopeing to find them on a dig when I come over to visit .Lets hope the powers that be decide to bring it back or make a new show similar to it. With Tony Robinson, Phil Harding, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth. He joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (now part of English Heritage) in 1985, and was its Landscape Investigation Team based in York, England. Ive learned that anything classed as experimental Is just filler as theyve found nothing. It feels very sad that I shant do that. The Mick Aston informative, involving wide range of age and expertise-or students out in the field working version, not the americanised teenybopper version as touted by c4 accountants. 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.). | Phoenix the Dreamer, https://digventures.com/2013/03/tools-down-for-time-team-raksha-dave-on-the-end-of-an-era-and-her-new-adventure/, Current Archaeology Award Winners for 2023 announced, The peaceful Neolithic is dead: the dawn of agriculture coincided with rising violence, Scars of early Civil War battle found at Coleshill Manor. The utterly ridiculous Dig by Wire (S19E01) would have put me off permanently had it been the first episode I had seen (What, helicopters dont work on Gateholm?). The message was simple: this is local archaeology, it is your archaeology. It is located on the Broughton Estate in Oxfordshire, belonging to the Fiennes family. Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 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. Especially ones which dig a site. Expertise honed over 15 years was lost at a stroke, to be replaced by crew and production staff who knew neither each other nor archaeology. It is that dull and droll science of Archeology, which when one attends a lecture on the subject, or a program on television normally results in boredom, numbness, squirming, or easy sleep. Screening 13 episodes a year, as well as live digs and specials the programme was ubiquitous. Its prototype was Timesigns, a four-part series that aired in 1991. time team r.i.p. Congrats to Lee Brady for having the knowledge to set up the petition and we must (using the current idiom) cascade to as many people that we can to sign too. HATE all the crap American shows taking over the tv. All the best shows are taken off and all we are left with is the boring and so untrue Archers. A terrible mistake in the cancellation of Time Team one the most educational series on T V I and my friend in Canada cant wait each Monday evening to watch the show we both being amateur Archaeologists and worked for many years with the Ontario Archaeology Soc and find the show captivating and extremely educational and will be sorry to see it end. Whilst not filming Phil still works as a field archaeologist with Wessex Archaeology, and has been involved in a project listing all known Palaeolithic sites in Britain. Not that I want to live there though am quite happy to be an Australian. With regards to a few folks comments about Tony Robinson. An audience study in 2006 indicated that 20 million people watched at least one show that year. . Last night (17 June 2014), they had a prominent, crude cartoon of a mans sexual equipment inserted into this highly humorous clip. Look at Lee Bradys comment 23rd Jan. Theres a link for a petition hes got started. The focus groups of today, the council chambers of yesteryear; all determined to make their mark, put their talent on show. 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. I regularly tape the programmes as it is shown on a variety of stations, history,yesterday, and channel 4 being some. 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. What can replace the jovial banter of all the dedicated team that gave us an insight to what was going on thousands of years ago. I have missed Time Team SO much.. Find out more here. Sadly,she passed away 2 years ago but before she went, she told me not to forget to watch TT. In between programmes, E4 these days uses short clips of things like hillwalking and narrow boats to ridicule the interests of old people. I absolutely agree with everything you said ! I will watch Time Team episodes as long as I last. What are you going to replace it with? They seem to have replaced alot of the original cast for more easy on the eye team members, the new historian was a prime example. They tried an American version but it didnt have the natural chemistry that the original had. Stewart Ainsworth was born on 26 June, 1951 in Yorkshire, United Kingdom, is a British archaeological investigator. And anyway, why would we want Channel 4 to keep TT? A brilliant series has been lost to the older viewer. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! I had to think about it before I realized what he meant. 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 .. The 2006 audience survey also identified that Time Teams core audience consisted of families and people aged over 45 / 50. Carenza Lewis, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake and geophys genius John Gater will all be returning and are excited about the new sites. Crazy. Somehow I feel her nearness when I watched it after she was gone. Victor is a great artist and bought sites to life. Lets not overlook Public Broadcastng with its excellent programming, either). Just watched the first instalment of Time Team America (H2,Thursdays,9pm). What better way of introducing archaeology to young people than for them to see it on a Sunday afternoon? I will miss time team I have watch all the series since it start quite a lot of the programmes are available on Veehd.com. Carenzas missing as is Helen, I see Mick walked out as I also presume Stewart has too. Its brilliant and helps this Singapore based Brit to feel less far away. I loved Mick and Phil and Stuart et all, picking on Matt for any rotton job. (3 different history channels, Discovery channel, Travel channel, Military channel, National Geographic channel the list goes on and on. I am shattered by this news. (and its cost increases). There is definitly an opportunity for BBC2 together with The Open University to take over when Time Team ceases. She was replaced by Helen Geake, Anglo-Saxon specialist. Spot on. 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 said it was seeking a female co-presenter who does not have to be overly experienced or knowledgeable as we have plenty of expertise within the existing team. Because of Time Team I now want to become an archeologist. I have told so many people about Time Team & my grand daughter has been trying to decide should she be an archaeologist or a geologist because of it. When . Thank you all so verymuch for what you have accomplished. Nevis, West Indies: Part 1: Directed by Graham Dixon. 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. Not a Tony Robinson fan myself but he is part of the show. Usually clad in a loud jumper, with his white hair blowing in the wind, Professor Aston was the shows site director who chose where to dig for the next historical discovery. Couldnt agree more. During that time he deduced the towns Medieval layout. Yes, really hope so! If there had been a mission statement for the show during those early days, it would have been the democratisation of archaeology. What idiot made this particular decision to cancel such an interesting and educational series! Jim Mower (development producer, see his opinion piece here) believes that Phil Hardings material was among the most innovative. My children are 13 and 12, and we all like to sit down as a family and watch this programme together and learn something. Just started to watch the latest series on C4, very very sad to be losing it soon. He was affectionately known as Time Team's "lumps and bumps" man, working with the team alongside his day job, travelling the country surveying, recording and investigating archaeological sites. The producers screwed it with the inevitable dumbing down and trying to make it a show for the 20 to 30 year olds. I watched every show, every season, and I never noticed that Tony had an obsession with Romans. People who had their gardens dug up were very brave once Phil got digging, were their gardens reland scaped. . 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