In mid October 2012 an all-points bulletin was emailed to Time Team staff. Dues have been paid, so get Sir Tony back, along with some younger faces and writing talent, and get cracking on a new TIME TEAM !!! I note that none of them ever received a gong. now I rely on repeats. 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. 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. Keep the show going its fantastic Ive been watching it as long as I can remember Thanks. It needed to get back to its roots look at the early episodes to see why it was successful. Your Upper Classes have been re-inventing themselves as New Romans and Empire builders for some time now, particularly in the last few centuries.They lost touch with who they ACTUALLY were and their own people. I didnt always like the reenactments but it was interesting when they dealt with diet and medical issues. Much has been said about this show on this site but I think that all of you would be best served by reading what Raksha had to say. I read a number of the same comments over and over here, and some are quite valid. Thank you to all of Time Team for 20 wonderful years. 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. Good riddance to Time Team; patronising in the extreme, and as for that prat Robinson leaping about a la Baldrick, reduced the entire thing to music hall. The old team are the best Mick, Phil, Tony et al.. think Channel 4 have made a HUGE mistake bet they wont listen to the public.. About the same time I discovered TT and became a dedicated viewer and have viewed all their programmes thanks to More Four. i am disappoited time team is to end after its next series a lot of people learnt more about the history of the uk.My grandchildren learnt more about roman history medieval times and other periods in our countries history than at school, http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/tv_time_team_to_reveal_secrets_of_ancient_norfolk_fort_1_1783360. 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. 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. There was a youthful energy to them back them, which was part of the attraction. Time Team was the best program I have ever seen or hope to see. Thanks Julia and Lizbeth. Looky tha! For me, as a genealogist, an episode really takes flight when, in addition to the dig, Robin Bush, or Guy D., or Carenza bring out a mediaeval charter, the Domesday Book, or the A.S. . This did happen in fact, but the show kept going with Mick Aston and (Sir) Tony Robinson always at the helm. I have watched Time Team for years as has my son and many many friends. Just heard about the axing of Time Team what a shame! , updated They will be joined by new faces representing the breadth of experts practising archaeology today. I never saw any of these shows until a week ago when I stumbled over them on youtube. Love the show and all the characters especially Phil! Spoilt in the end by Fixing something that want bust. And I really enjoy watching One of the people she missed was Carenza Lewis. (Then, of course, it goes straight to Hell). Our family enjoyed Tony Robinsons performance, but what made Time Team great was Mick and Phil and Carenza and Matt and Stewart and Raksha and Mick the Twig and Bridget and Raysan and Victor the artist and the geophysicists and Robin the historian and all the others whose contributions brought together a cohesive story for a site from a range of disciplines. They managed against terrific odds.and that gave me a good feeling ! Probably just as well this is the last series, but as many have suggested, a move to BB4 sounds a great idea. This is the sort of Programme that would thrive on BBC 2 in conjunction with The Open University. I do not know he was pretty good towards the end at his archeology. People who had their gardens dug up were very brave once Phil got digging, were their gardens reland scaped. I made this ages ago and thought someone here MIGHT like it? Sadly, my wife passed away in January 2012 but I carried on watching it until it ended. I agree. Buggering about with scheduling times has buggered many a decent tv series. Loved the history of U.K. I would be very interested in acquiring DVDs of the whole series to watch at my leaisure. Does Phil Harding have a PHD? Fabulous, thank you. So thank you TT, you helped rekindle my interest in history and if Id been 40 years younger you would probably have been instrumental in a career change! Finding it was to completely end, not, as Id hoped, to revert to its more successful format I was quite heart broken. The new series is getting nearer to the original format, I think, except for the one featuring the soldiers, which, dare I say it and risk castigation (?) You clearly have no idea what youve done. People seem to enjoy them. It was a formula that worked for the target audience and trying to attract a different audience by dumbing down the content was like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. How about a petition to Channel 4 demanding its continuation? He joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (now part of English Heritage) in 1985, and is now head of its Landscape Investigation Team based in York, England. T.T. I got fed up with running and prancing, daring to contradict real aercheologists. 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. You always felt a relationship with the team, they appeared friendly, very enthusiastic and appeared to be there for the love of archaeology. Us all. Meanwhile Tonys role transformed from a quiz master to translator of all things archaeological for a general audience. What am I going to do now knowing there isnt an unending stream of new TTs to feed my addiction? 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. Sir Tony can do no wrong with me. We are saddened to hear that a great T.V show which entertained and informed is being axed. You should be ashamed of yourselves, especially the way you have treated Mick Aston after all those years of dedicated service. The onscreen introduction of team members and their specialist skills was a hangover from a time when participants would have varied from week to week, rather than coalescing into a core group. Time Team first appeared on British television in early 1994, lasting two whole decades until it was cancelled in 2014. . Hopefully it will be picked up by another channel. He joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (now part of English Heritage) in 1985, and is now head of its Landscape Investigation Team based in York, England. I loved every member of the cast and crew. This informative, interesting program has long been a favourite amongst all ages of our family. I agree .I have thoroughly enjoyed Time Team and was greatly disappointed when I switched on my TV at the usual time and found no sign of Time Team at that time or any other. The ABC in Australia invariably saw fit to show very, very few episodes of Time Team, although numerous repeats were televised, and like a good book, they were enjoyed by a public that is hungry for family value in TV productions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRe_gMtXNo. It was one of the most brilliant Programmes ever on TV. Although Channel 4 is due the recognition it deserves for its faith and investment in archaeology over the years its decisions over the last couple of years will be a media studies case study How to destroy a successful programme and alienate millions of viewers. I often wish you could all come to my back yard 1 acre) and help me find the many many pairs of secateurs buried therein. Without any doubt whatsoever Time Team was the best show on TV and a giant amongst the crappy stuff we have to put up with these days such as reality TV shows. Was it her sultry beauty, or easy going attitude that rubs some the wrong way ? The final piece of the jigsaw fell into place during the fledgling Time Teams first episode. Big Bang (repeat), Simpsons (repeat), Simpsons (another repeat), Maid in Manhattan (good grief!). Partly, we all feel we are losing old friends after all this time but theres so much trash on TV that its no surprise that its loss is so keenly felt. 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. They should have known how appealing it would be. He is 10. 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Time Team turned this particular builder into a complete archaeological anorak and made one increasingly curmudgeonly old fart in a sweat stain hat the one person in the world Id most love to meet, hang out on a dig with and sink real ales with thereafter! Time Team repeats on You Tube are helping to keep me sane during the Covid19 lockdown. I never had any interest in my UK ancestors heritage and the conditions they must have endured until I watched the team in action. Thank you, Time Team!!! I enjoyed all the archaeologists and presenter Tony Robinson. Stewart Ainsworth was born on 26 June, 1951 in Yorkshire, United Kingdom, is a British archaeological investigator. A few years earlier Tony Robinson had joined a trip Mick was leading to Santorini as part of his adult education work for Bristol University. I have enjoyed Time Team from day one. 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. 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