All I can tell u is that I was hooked. So we manage to get something enjoyable, which at the same time is also useful. The final piece of the jigsaw fell into place during the fledgling Time Teams first episode. http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html It follows so much what has been prevallent in recent years on Brittish TV and thats dumbing down. It wasnt perfect but the catty remarks are uncalled for. ! Season 1, aired in 1994, had four episodes, while season 2 followed with five, and season 3 boasted six. Restructuring, avoiding dumbing down, possibly making it a shorter programme all could help. Mick Aston. BBC4 seems to have picked up the baton, thank goodness.!! 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. If there had been a mission statement for the show during those early days, it would have been the democratisation of archaeology. VALE Time Team, a wonderful Viking/ Roman pyre is burning and we are drinking ourselves to oblivion. 20 years of viewing no extra costs Faye, Bridget, Alice et al brightened my week And I learnt something Or we could watch some thick tosspot nobody acting like a tw4t and manufactured into some 3rd rate star. In April 2017, Dave married, An expert in Medieval rural settlement, Carenza is. Wrote letter to Time Team 1 episode, 1998 John Cloake . Thanks Guys! Bring them back ! i like everything about it. I rue the fact that as a child we used encyclopaedias 20 years out of date. with the Amazonian co-presenter with the huge bonded teeth. The result was a previously unknown 5th-century monastic enclosure linked to St Columba. He brought a wonderful empathy to Time Team.. his kind detailed replies to Tonys frustration always impressed me ! While viewing it might be a bittersweet experience we should enjoy the moment while we can. I do not know he was pretty good towards the end at his archeology. May be he could be a Lord? True, Tony Robinson did tend to upstage and steal a scene or two, but those of us who enjoyed one of the best programmes to ever hit TV, expected and accepted that. Maybe the resulting reruns and you tube videos will be a template for all group endeavors. Hopefully, but unlikely, someone will gather the real TT people and give it a rebirth. 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. 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. Cutting some excellent TV and radio presenters in favor of younger ones. PATREON XMAS OFFER For a limited time only, enjoy 16% off Patreon membership (equivalent of 2 months free) if you sign up for annual membership by Sunday 1st January 2023, 12pm (GMT). Less time looking at the scrapping away of mud from a piece of skull. 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! What a great detective. This feature was published in Current Archaeology issue274. Completely unable to absorb and assimilate well presented information in an entertaining style, and you completely misread the ironic style of Tony Robinson. And as others have said, perhaps it could be resurrected on BBC4??? Time Team announces historic comeback with 2021 dig at huge Oxfordshire Roman villa that may be 'almost the size of Buckingham Palace'. Thank goodness there is a myriad of viewers who appreciate the achievement of Time Team. . I THINK THIS IS A SHOCKING DECISION AND CAN ONLY HOPE THAT IT IS REVERSED!!! The foregoing is an exhausting but entertaining read. You can watch some TT episodes on YouTube, you know-that one included. Time Team! I have been planning to return for several years now for a holiday and to catch up with friends and relatives. John and his team must have walked miles. 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. Were not archaeologists but were not stupid either it really did feel like they had decided the audience was unintelligent. What a lot we learned. Biggest mistake ever! I will have to content myself with watching the 4OD repeats for ever now. How many clicks are you allowed on hazard perception test? The explanation for the end of Time Team is that the people who run Channel 4 are all about 12 years old. His sharp, charming wit and fresh-faced boyish looks made him the prime target for the historical re-enactment spots on the show. I hope there are more DVDs on the programs will be made as I have every current one at the moment. Also, a Presenter is not supposed to insult the experts he is reporting on. 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! Aston died unexpectedly at his home in the summer of that same year. Probably just as well this is the last series, but as many have suggested, a move to BB4 sounds a great idea. and spoke about his decision to adopt a vegan diet. I am watching repeats on Yesterday but hate the constant adverts. 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. If it doesnt involve foul-mouthed yobs eating too much, drinking too much or better still both, they arent bovvered. For those too grief stricken to cope right now, subscribe to the youtube video blog of Dig Village. I met Phil Harding a few years ago at old sarum castle, Salisbury, we had a lovely chat, hes a fab bloke. C4 has descended to abysmal levels. Very very sad. It would be nice if Channel 4 admitted its error and reinstated Time Team in its proper format. Series Producer and creator of Time Team, Tim Taylor says, They did it! By clicking Accept all you agree that Yahoo and our partners will process your personal information, and use technologies such as cookies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights, and product development. Is Tony Robinson a vegetarian? The team also included the likes of surveyors Stewart Ainsworth and Henry Chapman, illustrator Victor Ambrus, and fellow archaeologists Helen Geake and Phil Harding, and gradually the show began . Somehow I feel her nearness when I watched it after she was gone. Home | About | Contact | Copyright | Privacy | Cookie Policy | Terms & Conditions | Sitemap. What on earth is going on and who is in charge of these moronic decisions! Coincidentally, digging within a tight timeframe echoed contemporary changes underway in the profession. Hope it returns anne from Ontario Canada. Time Team brought so much into my life, being bed ridden, television being a large part of my life now. For me Time Team was a cultural oasis in a desert of dumb and lazy TV. I THINK THIS IS A SHOCKING DECISION AND CAN ONLY HOPE THAT IT IS REVERSED!!! As a Aussie viewer addicted to Time Team (even if we do seem to get more repeats than would seem necessary) I am amazed that this program has been axed. Tony used the rest of the Teams expertise to bring to life what was often regarded as a crusty subject before Time Teams arrival. Time Team cancelled by Channel 4? I am American and Time Team is my favorite program. Maybe it was better to end the show before they replaced the entire cast with celebrities from TOWIE. Ive loved Time Team since day one, but recently Ive found it becoming a little too cozy. The villa is a tantalising prospect a grand building almost as big as Buckingham Palace. The more who sign it the better, I have and so have my family. What screwed up Time Time was poor scheduling two years ago and an attempt to sex up the show and this failed miserably. TV archaeologist Phil, 69, said knives never used to be a "nasty object". I learn so much. Such a shame its being axed at a time its claimed the viewing figures are at its highest make little sense to me. Please, please would someone bring the show back, This is just another example of Managements old adage: Its perfect; lets New and Improve it Shades of the quiz-show concept do survive into early episodes of Time Team proper. Oh so true. However BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a state-owned institution from inter-war origins. Perhaps there were too many Roman sites with their predictable layouts. Pity arise Sir Phil???? Great format, educational safe family viewing. It is always the same, if it works change it, No offense Lizbeth, I really like Tony, but I still think my observation is accurate. In between programmes, E4 these days uses short clips of things like hillwalking and narrow boats to ridicule the interests of old people. And to lose Mick Aston well, that was it for us. Yes, the interest remains for the show. All the others as far back as 1828 from Ireland and Scotland. I enjoyed all the archaeologists and presenter Tony Robinson. I owe a debt of gratitude to the wonderful Time Team ensemble. Fortunately, it wasnt. PLEASE bring it back. Lets not overlook Public Broadcastng with its excellent programming, either). How many people can look back on a twenty years span of such a masterful contribution to human culture? The writing was on the wall when it regularly began featuring cleavage shots of diggers and the dreaded re-enactments. His father, Ralph, died of a heart attack in 1977 at the age of 57.[2]. Its like having a child grow up and leave home The cast felt like family that I would visit each weekend and even my 11 year old daughter enjoyed it so much she joined a young archaeologists club. Come on BBC, take up where C4 left off PLEASE!! It brought the money and expertise to investigate sites that would otherwise never have been touched. In addition, people are re-discovering the magic and history of their local areas and the wellbeing that can be derived from activities like archaeology. Im in my mid 40s. TT had a great following here in Canada. That a pile of random rubble is a wall, a stain in the ground is a ditch and Tony Robinson is a supercilious pot bellied bore. 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. 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. while the Facebook page is slowly building! 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. I will miss time team I have watch all the series since it start But it is not just a love-in for no reason: archaeology has benefited and received significant results out of the show. (all good things must come to an end). I loved Time Team in its early format but over the years got fed up listening to the boffins suddenly announcing a high status (Favourite phrase of TT) building eg temple or palace had been found after unearthing a piece of stonework that would get lost in my rockery. Spent many an hour intrigued by the whole show and the people on it. What Time Team once was in the beginning will never be reproduced. Time team is irreplaceable. Tony Robinson, global warming? He is 10. Im sorry to see that TT is folding though. 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