I will watch Time Team episodes as long as I last. So thank you time team I hope someone with a brain brings it back. Not any more. Lois & Tara, Australia Screening 13 episodes a year, as well as live digs and specials the programme was ubiquitous. Time Team brought archaeology to the publics attention (including mine) and will be sorely missed. Jim describes this miscalculation as a death blow, which cost the show almost all of its behind the scenes staff. Eight years after the long-running archaeology series stopped filming, Time Team is set to return with two new excavations scheduled for later this year. Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Still, we liked to watch something online every now and than rather than read a book, play a game or just talk to each other and thats when my husband showed me the first episodes of Time Team, which he remember from his youth. When . I download everything I can from the internet and watch on American PBS stations when I can find it. Tamara Cohen for the Daily Mail Gee I feel gutted. So my husband looked for more info. While I mourn the loss of Time Team, I think its death is a natural, organic thing that was simply going to happen sooner or later. It is sad to read the mechanics of its demise and, worse, to see it played out on screen. Learning? Just heard about the axing of Time Team what a shame! It is the ONLY program I think worth watching in all the rubbish put on these days ! And a pint or 2 as well, EUTOPIA. Having been a loyal fan for 20 years it beggars belief at the changes made in series 19 without any reference to Mick. Not everyone takes change happily., The comments below have not been moderated, By 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. Here we chart the highs and lows of a revolutionary format that aimed to bring archaeology to the people. Best wishes, good luck and Gods speed to the lot of you! He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. We will suffer forever without the seasonal hours of archaeology, in all its forms. Did you watch the episode of operation nightingale where the maimed ,psychologically injured soldiers from conflicts abroad found an inner peace and a feeling that they were no longer helpless in the world. Channel 4 obviously think we are all brain dead morons who need to watch the endless mind numbing soaps or the even more pathetic American rubbish that now dominates our screens. Always worked so hard and made sense of sites that could have remained a mystery. Unfortunately my DVD recording did not work. Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Imagine spending an entire weekend with Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth Learning How to Decode the Landscape, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stewart_Ainsworth&oldid=1140539218, People of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 15:01. And we have just recently lost Mick Aston, the Rock of Gibraltar of the show. Bring back Time Team. He only lives about 10 miles away. I once heard Mr Harding say Oh arr. Ok BBC4, its time for you to take Time Team. I have scoured the Internet watching every episode I can find, some more than once. Inspiring stuff. 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. 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. Time Team cancelled by Channel 4? This is not the present series I wonder where you are watching? Perhaps in gthe future we may have a project for a future Time Team, Channel 4 where did it all go wrong? & has never been more pi**ed off 2 here that its being Perhaps the question should be not what went wrong with Time Team, but what went wrong with Channel 4. I love time team. How will I live? How DARE they axe Time Team, it has been one of my few regular watches for a long time. To anyone who loves the Sunday afternoon history fix as much as I do PLEASE sign! Who knows,but hopefully in years to come we might all see a reunion? Perhaps we could have a US/Canada version? Time Time could go on indefinitely as long as it found a sympathetic home, and BBC Four would be ideal, their audience demographic would fit far far better than the current Channel 4 one, which is increasingly to try and chase the Reality/Makeover show market at the expense of original programming, and attract audiences that the advertisers prefer to exploit, rather than those with brain. In South africa we have seen so few TT programs and when in the UK on holiday I imediately check for surren programs to watch. I enjoyed all the archaeologists and presenter Tony Robinson. No, sadly when it comes to TV, viewers dont get what they want, they get what they are given Trouble is, the people who make these decisions can be misguided, and very stupid. Having the great pleasure to work in the UK for an Engineering firm, I was able to watch the early years of this program, up to the end. All the others as far back as 1828 from Ireland and Scotland. 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. or anyone with an IQ of 50 and below, or the attention span a bit longer than a small herring. Tony Robinson, global warming? 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. That way we still get our fix when we want to remind ourselves how good this series was. To me time team brought all facets of history alive to the ordinary person. They were digging Roman ruins in someones back garden and explaining in detail what they were doing and what it told them hooked then and there. Gutted that Time Team has ended! In 1994 January 16th until 2012.rip time team along with mick Aston Its a shame we didnt see you and the team doing more international locations. It is hardly surprising that I rarely watch TV these days apart from repeats of old favourites thank goodness we still have 20 years worth of repeats. Stewart Ainsworth FSA, MCIfA is a British archaeological investigator who is regularly seen on Time Team the Channel 4 archaeological television series he joined in 1995. Good job I have the internet to log onto. Such mass-production was only possible with more rigorous processes guiding filming. I really loved the show and learned so much. My dad worked for the National Park Service and I was born quite near Chaco Canyon[(a universally important archeological site) in a Navajo mission(Christian) hospital]. They tried an American version but it didnt have the natural chemistry that the original had. Im sorry no-ones put in a word for the lovely Raksha always good-natured, hard working and incredibly knowledgeable. I have watched and enjoyed Time Team for many years I am one of the oldies watching but my children grandchildren and great grandchildren are all avid viewers I feel the makers of this program had no perception of its impact on different generations when they set out to close the program down. I have loved it from the first episode and who cares if Tony is a little OTT sometimes, he keeps it entertaining and all together. 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. Log in or sign up to leave a comment. I am devastated ! report. I think weve brought it into the forefront of peoples attention. My parents watch it. Fabulous, thank you. Channel 4 should never have discarded such a treasure. http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html. My wife was unwell for many years but TT was one of the few TV Shows that she got pleasure from. Bring them back ! In all fairness thank you C4 for having the foresight to do the programme in the first place but put the money saved back into culture, dont invest it in any more fly on the wall or the only way is type of programmes or you may just lose any of the credibility youve gained. Didnt like the changes either to the team it change the dynamics of the program but kept watching anyway. This series is in my opinion (and hubbys) a satisfying end. I watch any that come on now.. saw one yesterday about the digging our of the 2 world war planes in the bogs.. He worked for several commercial units including Oxford Archaeology and MoLAS (as was), until he started a career at L-P Archaeology. I loved Mick and Phil and Stuart et all, picking on Matt for any rotton job. We now need a new champion of archaeology at a time when budget cuts in public service have resulted in the shedding of many jobs in the profession and the threats from a new phase of building construction looming large. If it doesnt involve foul-mouthed yobs eating too much, drinking too much or better still both, they arent bovvered. And Ive always thought tony was perfectly great as the show presenter, interested and fun, a joy to watch. The foregoing is an exhausting but entertaining read. The implementation of Planning Policy Guidance 16 in 1990 enshrined archaeology within the development process and paved the way for todays professional units. TT was an utter revelation. Ive learned that anything classed as experimental Is just filler as theyve found nothing. Refreshing to see non-Brits find our history/heritage of great interest. As our first dig back, we were keen on a site that would produce amazing evidence, showcase the very best that Time Team can offer, and allows us to demonstrate to the full the latest technology like LiDAR and GPR, says Taylor. My eldest son is now 19 and guess what he is studying at University (say no more) thank you Time Team. with the Amazonian co-presenter with the huge bonded teeth. 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. Us all. Time to leave! RIP MICK ASTON. Please bring together the old team Mick, Phil, Carenza, John, Francis and Stewart. I am off to channel four to ask them what is wrong with audiences that are over 40, 50 or even 60, what is wrong with older peoples programmes? What a wonderful 20 years we/they had. I rue the fact that as a child we used encyclopaedias 20 years out of date. Tony admitted a number of times that he is not an archeologist. If Id been younger when the programme first started I would have loved to have studied archaeology to work in such a fascinating area, I had little knowledge of or interest in archaeology before. Yes as convicts and bloody proud of it. Channel 4 can go to where it rightly belongs confined to History. 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. I am still watching episodes on Yesterday that Id somehow missed. Your contribution to TV and Archeology is now history itself! But once the old hands started to disappear the magic went too. HATE all the crap American shows taking over the tv. Thank you for educating and entertaining me over the years. What a bore YOU are! It was so pathetic, TT definitely doesnt need to have its memory sullied by association with the puerile crassness of the modern C4. I wish! He has since appeared in over two hundred episodes. They managed against terrific odds.and that gave me a good feeling ! Sadly,she passed away 2 years ago but before she went, she told me not to forget to watch TT. Fret not, the programs will haunt the repeats channels until they become their own archaeology as a worked example of how the medium started to dictate the content.