I assume it will be more imported American rubbish or so called comedy. Completely unable to absorb and assimilate well presented information in an entertaining style, and you completely misread the ironic style of Tony Robinson. I want Time Team brought back. The programme certainly triggered my interest and my wifes interest in Archaeology. Though Professor Aston appears with the new recruits in the current series, he will not join the 20th series, which starts filming in April and is due to be shown this year. There is nothing else like it on TV. Available to view on 4oD (www.channel4.com/programmes/timesigns/4oD), watching it now provides a salutatory lesson in just how revolutionary the Time Team format was. One of our students is well into his 70s, hes been in the field with us both on our formal field school and in a volunteering capacity. Tim Taylor explains because weve involved Wessex Archaeology in our work for the last 10 or so years the reports are really good quality. Ive always adored darling Tony Robinson since his days as Baldric, and Mick (RIP), Phil (gotta love him!) This article is 10 years old but like a spoiler. Hundreds of pounds would be spent on scientific dating such as C14, with the results only coming back in time for a line of dialogue to be dubbed on months after filming had concluded. i record all the T T i can i have brought T t dvd. It will be interesting to see how the new Village Dig series comes across on TV. My grandson is a budding archeologist and watches it over and over again. Like you, I find nothing more pleasant than to end a hard day in a Free House with a cold one and a good conversation. So thank you time team I hope someone with a brain brings it back. With Tony Robinson, Phil Harding, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth. 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. Lytham St Annes. The changes proved too much, too fast, and viewing figures crashed to 700,000. 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. The site, discovered by historian and metal detectorist Keith Westcott after years of research, could be one of the biggest villas uncovered in recent times. 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. This is just swell. Our family love TT and watch it together. I am sooooo sad that it is going and so is my family and friends..I would like to know what every one is going to do now our friends we see every week,I love the banter between everyone but no more. Have a look again at the programme where Phils DNA results come in and watch Tonys reaction. . Was it one persons requirements that brought extras into the show, persons not wanted nor needed, also not as talented as a walnut. I hope there are more DVDs on the programs will be made as I have every current one at the moment. As Francis Pryor observed on his blog, in many ways the real question is what went right?. Just did the same as Leigh trying to find out when the next series is due to start. 03:12 EST 08 Feb 2012. I was so sad to find out that it is finishedCould we bring it back? 100% Upvoted. http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html I also never felt patronised by Tony Robinson, and loved the way he frequently asked questions that the audience would have wanted to know themselves. It led to an appreciation of just how much information could be quickly gleaned from comparatively modest trenching. YOU HAVE JUST NOT THOUGHT THIS THROUGH! 2017, My husband and I decided to get rid of our tv when we had 2 young sons. Much better than most of the rubbish we get now that there are so many channels chasing adverts & broadcasting ever increasing repeats. Tony, Mick,and Phil will be missed. Thank God for my Saturday morning lie-in watching four episodes in a row on More 4. Whilst on youtube, also check out dig ventures; another fantastic project with another familiar face. Find out more about how we use your information in our privacy policy and cookie policy. Just recently I saw a show about Egypt using satellite infra red survey archaeology that could reveal all the subsurface features accross a whole landscape. You can watch some TT episodes on YouTube, you know-that one included. He said: We were very sorry to see Mick go, and he leaves an extraordinary legacy. So disappointed to hear the show has been axed. Coincidentally, digging within a tight timeframe echoed contemporary changes underway in the profession. Tony Robinson seems an entirely likeable guy and does his presenting job with good humour and humility. Admittedly, in the last year or so I have found myself increasingly disinterested in the programme. Time Team you have inspired so many people .THANK YOU. Imagine spending an entire weekend with Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth Learning How to Decode the Landscape. document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a3c3c528f5d4ab9be4dd73fd43d71409" );document.getElementById("ac59ec51d8").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Latest news from our sister site, the-past.com. Obviously I am not the only Australian (albeit English-born) to miss Time Team. Time Team is a victim of Channel 4s misguided quest for progress, and we hope that, in some form, the programme may rise like the phoenix from the ashes and take on a persona not far removed from the popular format. Many of my friends would love to travel to the UK because of shows like Time Team and Escape to the country. Thanks for the many years of wonderful, intelligent, entertainment Time Team, we will really miss you. I will miss it & Sunday afternoons will not be the same-Im all for a petition -there arent many programs on now that are educational & family viewing with no risk whatsoever of offending anyone, there are too many reality programs these days & that seems to be what the young people are watching. Whats on at this afternoon? I guess I will have to plan a trip to the UK to get my archaeology fix now. Prior to us, by and large archaeology was something you could only really appreciate if you read books with long words in them. And so agree with all here who say that C4 is very sadly dumbed down from its early days and mission. Channel Four seem to be missing a trick that gthe BBC would have undoubtedly have profited from by issuing DVDs of the most important digs over the years. Thank you to all of Time Team for 20 wonderful years. How many people can look back on a twenty years span of such a masterful contribution to human culture? How right Mick Aston was. Whats wrong with a passing reference to global warming unless you are an eccentric climate change denier? Closed minds achieve nothing in life. Self - Deya, Mallorca, Spain (1998) . Log in or sign up to leave a comment. 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. Oh so true. Chronicle. Just watched a poor programme on Brancaster digfull of errors and poor production. too, although not often. I first came across it a few years back while channel surfing Hey I know him thats Baldrick. I dont think I could stand watching Phils grotty hat for one more season. From jan Marie jaser. Schooled in observational documentaries, Graham followed the digs as they evolved. Big Thanks Time Team,will never get tired of watching the shows,fingers crossed you can make some more. 2023 CURRENT PUBLISHING LTD - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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. Im 77 and was taught English history at boarding school, but Time Team has made it come alive and with so much meaning. 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. He was affectionately called Time Team's "lumps and bumps" man by Mick Aston, and works with the team alongside his day job, travelling the country surveying, recording and investigating archaeological sites. I really loved the show and learned so much. My second eldest is 18, and we only watch one program together as our interests are so different (that would be Time Team). There is a petition already, on Facebook, which is not the ideal place. Nothing lasts forever, including Time Team. An episode where a workplace expert was on stand by for structural shoring when common sense would have not wasted this kind of expense. The fact that TT was the only programme I regularly watched on Channel 4 I am very sad to see it go. 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. Being well aired on the Yesterday TV Channel Monday to Friday throughout the day, Time team proved that nothing I is really lost it us just covered up soil sand and water 3 cheers for the team ron atkinson. 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. Very sad to hear Time Team is ending. "[3], As of 2010, Ainsworth has been affiliated with the history and archaeology department at the University of Chester, where he is a visiting professor.[4]. Well Done Time Team, sad to hear you are soon to be no more. How very sad. I met Phil Harding a few years ago at old sarum castle, Salisbury, we had a lovely chat, hes a fab bloke. You only have to look at the demographic to see that a model was not going to be an asset to TT. 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. 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. My youngest daughter honed her love of history sitting with me on a Sunday evening watching Mick and Tony et al. Tony R told us that the fort was not connected by road What???? I used to go into a hole with a size 9 shovel and spent nearly 33 years digging around obstacles like gas, electric, sewers, to name a few and I can assure you that I did not have the patience of some of this team. He trained as a surveyor before entering the archaeology section of the Ordnance Survey. He brought a wonderful empathy to Time Team.. his kind detailed replies to Tonys frustration always impressed me ! Youve said it all, I totally agree! Im not proud of Time Team, it hasnt worked.. I am incredibly disappointed at CH4 for axing a fine British programme. Restructuring, avoiding dumbing down, possibly making it a shorter programme all could help. 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!). Long-serving archaeologists Helen Geake and Stewart Ainsworth would appear less often. By the way, if the executives mild revamp caused viewer figures to plummet, how come it was the programme and not those executives who got the flak? Thank you channel 4 Thank you very very much . Re-assemble the team ! Learning? In fact, I actually struggle to watch any anyway, as I made clear at the beginning the post production is irritating. Crazy. Real shame, feels like Ive lost my friends! It is the ONLY program I think worth watching in all the rubbish put on these days ! The team was supplemented by experts appropriate for the period and type of site. A brilliant series has been lost to the older viewer. Regards, Paul Tressel [emailprotected], Time Team was a massive part of my life, Im still watching it even now on more 4 :O. In fact, since Tony had no input at all into what digs were scheduled, I dont see how that could even begin to be true. The more who sign it the better, I have and so have my family. Just discovered that this had been axed. Like Concorde, should be rescued by someone BBC and revamped ASAP. The past shows took it for granted that the viewers were intelligent and did not need someone (other than Tony I love him) to ask questions in his humorous fashion. But its also the fact that they didnt just impart accumulated knowledge, they made new discoveries as we watched. INCREDIBLE ! we dont want more programmes that is rubbish there is more than i could even say. We have watched it form the start and enjoyed it on various level hugely. 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! Will miss the team, at least we have more 4. We cannot wait to share this magic with you! Yes, it was a great show, but its over now. Whilst on holiday, I was very keen to spend a day or so, if possible, with the Time Team crew wherever they might be shooting. Its sad to see another worthwhile educational program going by the wayside. Gutted that Time Team has ended! He was an inspiration to me and to so many others. and the entire bunch breathed fresh life into the sometimes boring subject of Archaeology. very sad day for us and the time team cast. 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. This did happen in fact, but the show kept going with Mick Aston and (Sir) Tony Robinson always at the helm. x. Condolences to Micks family, his friends and his colleagues. The banter between him and the otherwise notoriously stuffy academics was legendary. A great show, but the show has been axed Mick and Tony et al than. 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