This is the sort of Programme that would thrive on BBC 2 in conjunction with The Open University. 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. 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. Lets not overlook Public Broadcastng with its excellent programming, either). Surely television that inspires interest and development is too good to lose? This is a disaster in t.v programming where currently all you get is the banal reality of the likes of Toddlers in Tiaras .The Time Team over the years became like welcome friends into your home and you wished you could join them in the pub at the end for a beer. I was thinking, isnt it about time Time Team was on? I had no idea it was finishing until yesterday and I missed the last viewing as I have flu and have been sleeping a lot.. OH DEAR ! So sad to see my favourite programme on Channel 4 being axed. In 1994 January 16th until 2012.rip time team along with mick Aston Filmed at Athelney, site of Alfred the Greats apocraphal burnt cakes, the site was scheduled, precluding excavation. I wonder how Tony felt with this introduction, as he had been doing the job for so long, and never once boring. Ive watched TT since it began & never missed an episode, I was in the 20s age group that they are now trying to attract when it started. Southern Gaulish Samian ware, or Green Glaze, 14th Century. Observing how so many, different, recondite specialty fields come together paleopalynography. 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. Your email address will not be published. . One only has to consider the creative arc of Channel Four itself, to have noticed that its a shadow of what it set out to be and frankly, those who run it now should be ashamed of themselves, relieved from duty, and prevented from working in TV ever again. 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. How will I live? As others have said, lets hope that the B.B.C. 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. Phil Harding - Biography. He has an excellent track record in a range of organisations in the . Thank you time team, one and all, I constantly watch the reruns on the history channel here is oz. Tim Team has finally brought British history into focus for me. Time Team you have inspired so many people .THANK YOU. It presented an intellectually enjoyable show to the many mature aged citizens of planet Earth and COULD continue to do so if someone with an gram of sense would realise that this show still has enormous appeal for the right demographic. Phil Harding and family at Buckingham Palace, 12 December 2006. 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. With a fantastic team backed by Keith Westcott and Martin Fiennes, local community support, the possibility of an ongoing legacy, and the guarantee of great archaeology, Broughton Castle ticks all the boxes!, Taylor continues: The Broughton villa promises to be one of the finest examples in Britain. I also helped out at two hisoric sites with two different groups of 11-13 uear old kids who spent half a day five days in a row learning what archeology is. This was highlighted by having a member of the public read out a letter of invitation at the beginning, posing the question they wanted answered. I THINK THIS IS A SHOCKING DECISION AND CAN ONLY HOPE THAT IT IS REVERSED!!! Alarm bells began to ring for us when Mary-Anne appeared it seemed to coincide with a dumbing-down of the show. I will think of you when I am digging in a field this afternoon, that you once dug, and bury a memento in your memory. Will there ever be a time when I wouldnt watch Time Team repeats? What is the point of Channel 4, if not to do something different? What that will show in Britain will start another flood of interest in archaeology with all local likely sites of archaeology being revealed.. Time team might be gone but something like it will be back pretty quick I suspect. Vale Time Team, you will be missed. He was an outstanding presenter for the show. Good bye Mick. I have enjoyed Tony Robinsons commentaries. What a wonderful 20 years we/they had. 20 years is a great run for any show on TV. One of the best programmes on television. I was sad to see Carenza leave and sad to hear of the death of Robin Bush. 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. Am now in the process of buying the DVDs. Lets hope that BBC4 takes up the genre. 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. 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. There are some of us who actually enjoy watching interesting, factual, historic programs. The message was simple: this is local archaeology, it is your archaeology. 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. Fabulous, thank you. Speaking to Express.co.uk, Tony said he won't be. It is to bad that the show was cut, there are so much more to find, discover and educate us all. I am sure there are more sites for them to investigate. There is a focus on interesting, previously discovered, artefacts, while pipe music lends an almost mystical air to proceedings. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 2023 FAQS Clear - All Rights Reserved 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. 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. Love the show and all the characters especially Phil! I wonder if channel 4 realise how far T.Ts popularity stretches and how informative it is for all ages. Yes, Phil can still shift the muck but check out his work on lithics studies and you might change your opinion. Phil Harding is a highly accomplished archaeologist, working in the field since 1971, and inspired a whole new generation of archaeologists and historians through his work on Time Team. It will be sad for it to end, but theres still a few epsiodes I havent seen. Would hydrogen chloride be a gas at room temperature? I am very sorry to see it go. People who had their gardens dug up were very brave once Phil got digging, were their gardens reland scaped. It has an extra-long handle and additional reinforcement so that he has better leverage when moving loads of earth. Out of interest, Time Team fans, how many of you would be willing to pay directly to watch new programs? The writing was on the wall though poor scheduling . 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. Like Philip Lethbridge I would be happy to watch TT for ever. irritating but he was a part of a recipe that worked for a long time. The programmes were sometimes slight and of course a three day dig is only a sketch rather than a full canvass, but Time Team enriched my life. Anyone who visited one of their digs while shooting was underway will have seen the devotion it inspired in members of the public. Some of them are dead, and the rest have moved on. Steve Singleton Lytham St Annes. 2003Michelle Johnsonm. God, is there nothing for older viewers who actually like to think? And I really enjoy watching Just started to watch the latest series on C4, very very sad to be losing it soon. On December 17, 2021, Williams was hired by the San Diego Padres to serve as the teams third base coach for the 2022 season. But it is not just a love-in for no reason: archaeology has benefited and received significant results out of the show. By clicking "Reject all" you reject all non-essential cookies and similar technologies, but Yahoo will continue to use essential cookies and similar technologies. TT is without doubt, the best offering in British television. In April 2017, Dave married, An expert in Medieval rural settlement, Carenza is. Some episodes Ive seen over three times each. Very sad that all great things have to come to an end one day. It is the programme really. Chronicle. It is absolutely fantastic to see the amount of people who have followed this programme and the comments above are pretty amazing. John has kept on top of technical advances, and the results of his survey of Brancaster Roman fort provide one of the outstanding moments in the forthcoming season 20. (3 different history channels, Discovery channel, Travel channel, Military channel, National Geographic channel the list goes on and on. All Rights Reserved, We use cookies to enhance your experience while using our website. Time Teams genesis is a well-rehearsed story. He has become a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series Time Team . We are a large audience. This comment by Peter Thomas is an excellent precis of all that has been said. Somehow they know that the user is in the US and access is denied. Said no-one, ever. 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. How many clicks are you allowed on hazard perception test? It returned online in 2022 for two episodes released on YouTube. 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? It may be in fifteen or so years a new Time Team will go digging in the archives of the defunct Channel 4 to explain how with the audience Channel 4 had for an entertaining and informative programme Which bright go ahead executive (IDIOT) came up with the Idea, if its not broken we must fix it. 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! I never made any money out of it, but a lot of my soul went into it. I owe a debt of gratitude to the wonderful Time Team ensemble. What about the good time team has done? Whether or not Aston was casting aspersions at the new host, but the timing of his comments about the show becoming 'dumbed down certainly appeared to be pointed in that general direction, or at least lumping Ochota in with what he saw as detrimental changes. RIP Time Team. It excited the viewers, gave a good history of The United Kingdom, and made one waiting for the next episode, all due to the enthusiasm and clever programming of the show. Ive binge watched Time Team on YouTube and up to S17. Time Team cancelled by Channel 4? For complete information about the cookies we use, data we collect and how we process them, please check our. Many a critic was silenced by seeing the team in action. Find out more here. 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. As an aside seeing your label Non-Richardian Yorkist what are your feelings about the parking lot discovery? They have been saying for some years that the viewing figures have been going down and thats partly why they engineered this. There is a huge following in Australia and after the debacle with the producers bringing in you know who as a co-presenter (of cleavage), the show started its slow path to division. In addition, he has appeared in episodes of Meet the Ancestors (2003) and Chris Moyles' Quiz Night (2009). 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! We shall mourn the loss of TT in Australia, although the episodes arrive on our screens years after they are made, which means well be watching them long after the series ends were still with the old format so I cant comment on the new look TT. very sad. What do other TT viewers think? TV archaeologist Phil, 69, said knives never used to be a "nasty object". The programme has been an inspiration to me and I am sure to many people and for me has kindled an interest in history via archaeology that we can find all around us in our everyday lives. The pair bonded on the idyllic Greek island, where Micks aptitude for breathing life into the past convinced Tony that archaeology had untapped television potential. Bravo to your remaks. Such a great programme. While the yet-to-air season 20 promises a return to more-traditional Time Team values, it was too late. well done on ending one of the best programs on tele. There are quite a few of us down here watching repeats ( up to 5 times) but even so they are still interesting. if only someone could afford too get all thecast back and go on channel 2 or 5 any ware but not on 4 .. who ever made up there minds to get rid off TT I HOPE there bosses can see the error they are makeing.very sad to see it go. Very sad to hear Time Team is ending. Yet despite bringing the past to life using the familiar ingredients of excavation, landscape survey and reconstructions including Phil felling a tree with a flint axe Timesigns is a very different beast. What are you going to replace it with? You can never run out of history in Britain. I still watch the series on U-tube. It brought the money and expertise to investigate sites that would otherwise never have been touched. Mick Aston is a damn good archaeologist and his departure was a serious loss to the programme. Only problem is the core members are getting on a bit, so no chance of it going another 20 years. I know real archaeologists are dismissive of Time Team but I loved it. They almost succeeded in ruining it until this present series.Channel 4 have betrayed the cast, crew and viewers. So apart from discovering the female cleavage (along with Kleenex tissues) looking for Saxon pottery designed to hold bovine waste, expanding your knowledge of Saxon tea services as well as teaching both Vivian Westwood and Tony & Guy a thing or twowhat other skills have you learned since watching Time Team? Philip Harding DL FSA (born 25 January 1950) is a British field archaeologist. British Television just one more nail in your coffin. As Francis Pryor observed on his blog, in many ways the real question is what went right?. CHANNEL 4 you just do not know what you have done ! Sadly,she passed away 2 years ago but before she went, she told me not to forget to watch TT. I feel sure we havent heard the last either. In 2012, Aston announced he was leaving the show after criticising format changes that focused less on archaeological activities. Like Paul said (June 23 comment) you wished you could join them in the pub at the end for a beer . Placing viewers at the heart of the action would become a Time Team hallmark. Rumours have been circulating since a statement appeared on the Time Team social media accounts earlier this week, alluding to something "big". I for one will not watch any new episodes. It needed to get back to its roots look at the early episodes to see why it was successful. I record episodes that I cannot watch on the day. 2021 CURRENT PUBLISHING LTD - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. I agree with you . How outrageous to think that the 45s are not a worthy audience. I would be very interested in acquiring DVDs of the whole series to watch at my leaisure. Now British television can be as dumbed down and offensive as American television has become. I am looking forward to the Village Dig series, when it eventually comes to the small screen. Channel 4 should never have discarded such a treasure. 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