Out of interest, Time Team fans, how many of you would be willing to pay directly to watch new programs? I would love to see as many of the team as posible brought together for specials or even to tell us what they are involved in now. I therefore conclude that the program is enjoyed by audiences of all ages. He was affectionately known as Time Team's "lumps and bumps" man, working with the team alongside his day job, travelling the country surveying, recording and investigating archaeological sites. I have been watching Time Team since its birth and can quite candidly say, I have never seen and enjoyed such a beautiful piece of television. 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. I will miss it desperately and want to say thank you to them all.. What a fantastic 20 years Bye bye Tme TeamI will care for Phils hat .. I am now watching past digs being repeated on More Four. Time Team To Be Reinstated! Yes, Phil can still shift the muck but check out his work on lithics studies and you might change your opinion. I cannot think why! The thrill of time running out also engaged viewers, and Time Teams popularity was rewarded with increasingly longer series. Your contribution to TV and Archeology is now history itself! I had no idea it had finished. Stopping TT is just another step in the dumbing down of TV and radio. Carenzas missing as is Helen, I see Mick walked out as I also presume Stewart has too. The key participants deserve a rest at their age, and the joy obviously just wasnt there. Yes as convicts and bloody proud of it. But the influence of Time Team reaches well beyond the British Isles. Having said that, I hope this means Time Team DVDs will now be more available to those of us in the US who adore the show. but they wont last forever and young blood is always needed. yes, I too have treasured every episode, and it has been the one programme of all channels that I never wanted to miss, even asking family to record it if I went on holiday, in the early years before I had a dvd m/c. I was disappointed with the change in format, it was like losing family. I generally watch one episode a night, but on weekends I sometimes binge watch until my eyeballs beg for mercy. As an amateur digger, I envied TTs resources a JCB on call, geophysics, dendrochronology, C14 dating, DNA analysis. The breathtaking 3D model it produced of the buried structures persuaded English Heritage to commission a complete survey on the spot. Maybe after all these replies BBC4 may approach the original team !!! Much better than most of the rubbish we get now that there are so many channels chasing adverts & broadcasting ever increasing repeats. It is to the Channels credit that it did this despite much of that outlay being channelled into post-excavation work that never appeared onscreen. Channel 4 manages to produce some really rubbish reality programmes to titivate the youthful masses it hopes to attract. This comment by Peter Thomas is an excellent precis of all that has been said. But it just goes to show how Time Team in ingrained in our family! As a teacher of Ancient and Modern History in Australia, I found the T.T programs a wonderful way to back up the various topics I taught. I cant believe how much I have learned during Covid lock down because of Time Team. Bringing in that awful woman for the last series was the straw that broke the camels back. Im sure it was meant to interest younger viewers in Archeology, a noble enough concept. I am a mega fan of the show. For how many years were John Gater and Stuart Ainsworths technical expertise presented as a pat cliche when the work of either could have been expanded? and which would be the best way to alienate the people working on the programme. I am devastated ! 17:30 EST 07 Feb 2012 It has taught and shown me so much, I have a wonderful interest in archaeology thanks to this show, and loved hearing and seeing our past. There is definitly an opportunity for BBC2 together with The Open University to take over when Time Team ceases. Possibly my favourite television programme. Im sitting here on the sofa watching the usual More 4 showing on a Saturday morning. Not a Tony Robinson fan myself but he is part of the show. Time team has been a part of tv watching since its beginning . We live in USA. Its an opportunity to find new voices and should help launch a new generation of archaeologists, under the guidance and watchful eye of Mr Taylor! 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. He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. . Who was the idiot that canceled it??? Ive watched TT for years now and thoroughly enjoyed it. They tried to make it edgy and the thing I loved about time team was its lack of edginess? Brought up 3 kids on it. There is a focus on interesting, previously discovered, artefacts, while pipe music lends an almost mystical air to proceedings. Like Concorde, should be rescued by someone BBC and revamped ASAP. 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. 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. His Uncle, my brother, has to dig up a dig with him when he comes on holiday and he is in there like a professional. (a bit of eye candy maybe if your of that age) Sad to see this very good program going down the pan. When I signed there were 1,600 names. Its disadvantage was that it had no scope to include z-list celebrities to manufacture controversy around, and so it was killed. 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. At least we can watch past programmes on More 4 on on the On Demand. Lytham St Annes. Maybe the BBC can resurrect this show. I wonder whether the viewing figures took in the worldwide audience I know lots of people watched and enjoyed it here in Australia. Expertise honed over 15 years was lost at a stroke, to be replaced by crew and production staff who knew neither each other nor archaeology. Channel 4 you need looking at!!! Time Team! In other words, archaelogy, teamwork, and interaction in that order. archaeology..is what my 11 year old gran daughter is looking into training for..shows like these are needed more. That some suburban folks welcomed the Team to pull up their patio, knock down their potting shed, and bore holes in their rafters, used to amaze me. Somehow I feel her nearness when I watched it after she was gone. He completed his undergraduate and Master's degrees at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London before embarking on a career in commercial archaeology. Found Time Team on You Tube. We are a large audience. It would be nice if Channel 4 admitted its error and reinstated Time Team in its proper format. Mary-Ann Ochota caused the Time Teams slow demise as she and the behind the scene executives strangled a Team that had worked played and laughed together over so many years making not good but great viewing. Stewart Ainsworth also stated: "Time Team has probably been one of the biggest things that has happened to archaeology for many years - to make archaeology and history accessible, and we need to keep that profile going whatever way we can." What lies under the ground of the countrys past. It was Stewart who discovered the true route of the Roman road as it went through Greenwich Park. Time Team (Collection 2) - 11-DVD Box Set : Tony Robinson, Phil Harding, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth, Mick Aston, Victor Ambrus, Henry Chapman, Ian Powlesland, Matt . I have no idea which series I am watching, I think it must be a mixture as Tonys beer belly ebbs and falls and Phils hair waxes and wains, though Mick never seems to have changed. I watched every show, every season, and I never noticed that Tony had an obsession with Romans. 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. It led to an appreciation of just how much information could be quickly gleaned from comparatively modest trenching. The 2006 audience survey also identified that Time Teams core audience consisted of families and people aged over 45 / 50. 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. Im tired of the idiots that run TV and Im ready for revolution.whos with me!!! Poor. 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. I loved every minute of it. What do we all enjoy about it? It is sad to read the mechanics of its demise and, worse, to see it played out on screen. There was a early chemistry here of personalities, as well as expertise. I will miss it and them dreadfully. So why could it not continue on and evolve in 2013 ? Because the major players were all quite old, and as you will have heard age is the surest antidote to youthful energy. The students became instant converts to the program. Thank God for my Saturday morning lie-in watching four episodes in a row on More 4. Perhaps the question should be not what went wrong with Time Team, but what went wrong with Channel 4. Season 1, aired in 1994, had four episodes, while season 2 followed with five, and season 3 boasted six. Wouldnt it be lovely if all teams could be like the Time Team? He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. Quod erat demonstrandum. You are going to be missed more than most of us realise. The last series was disappointing without Helen and Stuart who were replaced by people without half their expertise. Its prototype was Timesigns, a four-part series that aired in 1991. Most days, I have been watching the TT repeats on More Four in the afternoons. I found TR irritating at times but accepted him as part of the show. This is a project in its preliminary stages, run by Tim Taylor. The huge plus for archaeology in general has been the raising of the profile of a branch of science that prior to this program was the province of a fairly small group of people. Best wishes, good luck and Gods speed to the lot of you! The Team had a comradery like that of an elite military unit. This is true I dont go to bed without at least watching one episode I would too love to get involved but at 67 a bit too old. Just imagine all our Patreon subscribers sitting down to watch Time Team and thinking: We made this happen!. British Television just one more nail in your coffin. One of the best programs EVER. I was thinking, isnt it about time Time Team was on? He brought a wonderful empathy to Time Team.. his kind detailed replies to Tonys frustration always impressed me ! Archaeology enthusiast from Europe and the United States have long discovered the series. It was one of the most brilliant Programmes ever on TV. I have watched TT for the last 20 years from my mid 20s. Jim describes this miscalculation as a death blow, which cost the show almost all of its behind the scenes staff. This article is 10 years old but like a spoiler. My son in his early 20s always likes to watch it. 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. will take it on. Official website also launched: http://www.TimeTeamFans.com Thanks everyone. 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. When . How amazing to see the history of England being unearthed. Raphael, you cant have the old cast back. Stewart Ainsworth FSA (born 26 June 1951) is a British archaeological investigator who is regularly seen on Time Team the Channel 4 archaeological television series he joined in 1995. I wonder how much is wasted on their wages. I hate that its producers felt the need to change its face to meet the modern idea of glamour! I agree the lady they brought in for Series 19 was disappointing and that it does show how far C4 has come in the last 20 years. The main loss will be the delight we have got shouting bullshit-ware at the screen as Paul Blinkhorn announces a small lump of stone is in reality early Anglo Saxon teaset. It is made up of real people and I have learnt so much from it. Hated that they axed Mick Aston and brought in other new people!!! Ive got to say I think he handled the shows well. When Time Team came along, I got absolutely hooked on it. Tim Taylor explains because weve involved Wessex Archaeology in our work for the last 10 or so years the reports are really good quality. If this were a BBC programme, then this alone would be worth the license fee. I enjoy his style of presentation. It is the ONLY program I think worth watching in all the rubbish put on these days ! We are saddened to hear that a great T.V show which entertained and informed is being axed. Its all happening ere Tony. Thank you all so verymuch for what you have accomplished. And so agree with all here who say that C4 is very sadly dumbed down from its early days and mission. Promotion of family values good natured banter and above all a love of the past which TT has shared with us over the years is disposed of Shame, Shame, Shame. Thank you,Mick, for all that you gave us.and thanks to Micks family for sharing him with us. Yes, that was a great one. what fools these youngsters are. He was an inspiration to me and to so many others. So thank you time team I hope someone with a brain brings it back. I am incredibly disappointed at CH4 for axing a fine British programme. Thank you Time Team for all those wonderful hours of thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. And we have just recently lost Mick Aston, the Rock of Gibraltar of the show. Somehow they know that the user is in the US and access is denied. My oldest son and my husband dream of being as good in tapping flint as Phil! Its amazing. It was a perfunctory end for a television institution that, over two decades, made British archaeology more accessible and popular than ever. Loved Time Team and will miss it [endless repeats are not the same but I still find myself watching them anyway]. TT is without doubt, the best offering in British television. With Tony Robinson, Phil Harding, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth. 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. Why cant these so-called clever people just leave things alone. Mary Ann Ochota qualified or not added nothing substantive unless the viewer was starved for gratuitous cleavage shots and huge white beaverish teeth. 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. Series Producer and creator of Time Team, Tim Taylor says . Usually clad in a loud jumper, with his white hair blowing in the wind, Professor Aston was the shows site director who chose where to dig for the next historical discovery. And lets be honest, it doesnt get any better than watching absolutely great British television presented by the all time best supporting TV character, Baldrick. My absolute favorite TV program! It would be remiss of me not to mention that I was so sorry to read of the passing of Mick Aston. I learned a lot about my British roots by watching and have shared the knowledge with my family. 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. I dont understand what purpose that serves, but there you have it. With 1.5 million views a month on the Time Team Classics YouTube channel in 41 countries worldwide, the new programs will premiere on YouTube, with additional behind-the-scenes content on the platform Patreon. Whats wrong with cozy? It is absolutely fantastic to see the amount of people who have followed this programme and the comments above are pretty amazing. 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. Thank you all for giving us years of delight and thank God for DVDs. Sir Tony can do no wrong with me. But for me the real genius is Stewart who can look at a landscape and tell you what it was like hundreds of years ago. Ive learned that anything classed as experimental Is just filler as theyve found nothing. The 2013 series is so much better, very like the old times. I watched all but episode 1. Wasnt TT the only reason to watch Channel 4 ? To an incredible all round team we thank you and to Phil damn we will miss you! Their ethos has been propagated through the educational system and I feel that its still there (though fading) I have loved Time Team since episode 1, and have never, not once, missed an episode. Some of the regulars have retired, some have moved on to other things, a few have departed for Tr nan g or the Field of Reeds. Or are we all to turn off our televisions once we reach 40? It is obvious to me that they were always working on their format and that Tony was the TV guy while the others were the science folks. ABC altered the format marginally and called it At the Movies. BBCs own channels will have BBC prefixing the number and anything not by the BBC will obviously by without this prefix. So disappointed to hear the show has been axed. The regular team also included: [6] Stewart Ainsworth, landscape investigator; John Gater and Chris Gaffney, archaeological geophysicists; Henry Chapman, surveyor; and Victor Ambrus, illustrator . I just love the way English history came alive & feel like the team must have lots of fun doing this job.I was hopeing to find them on a dig when I come over to visit .Lets hope the powers that be decide to bring it back or make a new show similar to it. time team is the best progamme on tv. Time Teams legacy leaves much to celebrate. CHANNEL 4, YOU ARE A COMPLETE BUNCH OF IDIOTS!!!. Im 78 years old. Southern Gaulish Samian ware, or Green Glaze, 14th Century. Observing how so many, different, recondite specialty fields come together paleopalynography. And if you do, please include the adorable and hilarious Raksha Dave, dear Francis Pryor and Stewart Ainsworth, all of whom have places near and dear to my heart. Meet the Ancestors was also a good programme we need more Archaelogy programmes on TV. Telly Tubbies. I KNOW i keep on saying it but i cannot get my head around channel 4 is getting rid off such a great programme it is seen all over the world. Congratulations to all concerned on a great program. 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. Fond regards to everyone from the past on TT. 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. Log in or sign up to leave a comment. Yes, the original core team with Carenza, and then Helen Geake, were great. No other archaeology programmes on any channels tackle the wide range of sites and periods that TT did or inspired many to become keen amateurs or to start a career in archaeology. there must be a law t Their intention is to uncover the remains of a number of plantation houses that now are no more than ruins. Channel 4 please think again you have made a monumental mistake! Time Team RIP It remains my all time favourite reality TV show and I really miss it. Obviously I am not the only Australian (albeit English-born) to miss Time Team. I will miss Matt and Bridgit and all the others especially Phil. I so agree. Stewart Ainsworth, Time Team member Influence beyond. To me time team brought all facets of history alive to the ordinary person. I would just like to thank Tony Robinson, Mick Aston, Phil Harding and all of the crew at Time Team for many years of fascinating TV. TT changed how history programmes are made for UK TV for ever. I record episodes that I cannot watch on the day. 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