He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. Many episode are available free on veehd.com. The message was simple: this is local archaeology, it is your archaeology. Like Paul said (June 23 comment) you wished you could join them in the pub at the end for a beer . The roman barge in Utrect was particularly interesting and my son in Holland wished to see it. Gee I feel gutted. paleo-osteology, finds experts, experts in the Bronze Age or Rome I am as raptured as Phil squatting in a newly opened trench exclaiming, Oooh! Never screened and reputedly lost in the Channel 4 vaults, this pilot captured a show that was as radically different to Timesigns as it was to later Time Team episodes. although a WONDERFUL outlet for the undoubted heroes, is not archaeology and not what I feel Time Team needs. 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. I dread to think just where the Television industry is looking for its viewers In the Night Garden. It announced that after 20 seasons and over 230 episodes the programme was being axed by Channel 4. I am wondering how many viewers watch the Time Team now. Also it being on an increasingly miserable Channel (4) did it no favours whatsoever. I love the show, and I have also fallen in love wit Faye Simpson. It was a perfunctory end for a television institution that, over two decades, made British archaeology more accessible and popular than ever. It lost its way because of the producers. Channel 4 you need looking at!!! Have a look again at the programme where Phils DNA results come in and watch Tonys reaction. 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. Miss TT so much. It was Stewart who discovered the true route of the Roman road as it went through Greenwich Park. Long-serving archaeologists Helen Geake and Stewart Ainsworth would appear less often. Time Team was on television, but not of it. I think Phil is a genius at being able to read the ground he is digging up. By clicking Accept all you agree that Yahoo and our partners will process your personal information, and use technologies such as cookies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights, and product development. Who made the decision to axe time team but it is a mistake they will regret. Tony Robinson is proud of the programmes success in making archaeology accessible. I watched every show, every season, and I never noticed that Tony had an obsession with Romans. And this program had run its course several years ago. Interesting, in these days where we (oldies) are not responding to adverts as much as the supposed young and affluent to think of alternative crowd-sourcing models for financing programs that we like. T.T. Were currently watching the last episodes, with the delightfully enthusiastic Francis Pryor, on ABC TV in Melbourne, and we love em, even if there arent always lots of finds. 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. 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. Refreshing to see non-Brits find our history/heritage of great interest. And we have just recently lost Mick Aston, the Rock of Gibraltar of the show. I would be very interested in acquiring DVDs of the whole series to watch at my leaisure. My absolute favorite TV program! Emails,from those who have just learned that TT was cancelled a year ago are still dropping into my in box. 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. We have watched it form the start and enjoyed it on various level hugely. Back in the olden days(late 70s) I was accused of being an anglophile by the University of New Mexico professor who was trying to recruit me, an English Major, into his new American Studies department. The 2006 audience survey also identified that Time Teams core audience consisted of families and people aged over 45 / 50. It was over when Mick went AWOL. You only have to look at the great interest shown over Richard III to realise that yes there is a market for a programme of this nature. Couldnt agree more. He completed his undergraduate and Master's degrees at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London before embarking on a career in commercial archaeology. Possibly my favourite television programme. What screwed up Time Time was poor scheduling two years ago and an attempt to sex up the show and this failed miserably. I am an American who did real dirt archeology thirty years ago.I dug at at three historic sites and one protohistoric site in East Central Illinois. Im in my mid 40s. My eldest son is now 19 and guess what he is studying at University (say no more) thank you Time Team. The final piece of the jigsaw fell into place during the fledgling Time Teams first episode. 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. Please bring together the old team Mick, Phil, Carenza, John, Francis and Stewart. A few days later news of Time Teams demise broke in the Guardian. The UK has always been relied on for quality productions and Time Team epitomised these values, but obviously, some young Turk in a rented tux has been allowed to jazz it up. This is just swell. The team also included the likes of surveyors Stewart Ainsworth and Henry Chapman, illustrator Victor Ambrus, and fellow archaeologists Helen Geake and Phil Harding, and gradually the show. Inever felt patronised and loved the interation beteen Tony, Phil and Mick. I know real archaeologists are dismissive of Time Team but I loved it. sundays seem empty without my time team fix. Tony was constantly disagreeing with the archaeologists, and for some unexplained reason there was loud ballet music all but obliterating the commentary. He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. There may be mosaics, a bathhouse and perhaps even temples. there must be a law t There are quite a few of us down here watching repeats ( up to 5 times) but even so they are still interesting. Phil is fantastic as he has always been. 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. what fools these youngsters are. Never too late to register shock and disgust at the decision to axe Time Team which has opened up the hidden world of archaeology to generations. 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. I so agree. 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 had to think about it before I realized what he meant. With Tony Robinson, Phil Harding, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth. Well said and one hundred per cent agree. Thank you, thank you, Ive loved the passion, warmth, fun, humour and absolute professionalism that you all have brought to history. As an amateur digger, I envied TTs resources a JCB on call, geophysics, dendrochronology, C14 dating, DNA analysis. The technology now at our disposal, and a new generation of archaeologists joining the team, is a fantastic prospect. People like myself really appreciate history coming to life as Time Team presented it. TT was an outstanding program. Yes, that was a great one. 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. Despite their varied talents and backgrounds it quickly became apparent that the team had a natural chemistry. The regular team also included: Stewart Ainsworth, landscape investigator; John Gater and Chris Gaffney, archaeological geophysicists; Henry Chapman, surveyor; and Victor Ambrus, illustrator. Sounds like a bargain to me, how much do the BBC spend on the series presented by David Attenborough? Time Team - Helen Geake Helen Geake Small Finds Specialist and Anglo-Saxon Expert Helen's interest in archaeology was sparked partly by attending lecturers by Time Team's Mick. I feel really, really angry about it. Time Team you have inspired so many people .THANK YOU. i say dont be too quick to make a stupid decision. This did happen in fact, but the show kept going with Mick Aston and (Sir) Tony Robinson always at the helm. 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. The fact that TT was the only programme I regularly watched on Channel 4 I am very sad to see it go. Stewart Ainsworth was born on 26 June, 1951 in Yorkshire, United Kingdom, is a British archaeological investigator. Fortunately, it wasnt. I know more today of English history and Roman occupation than I ever did before. A number of archaeological old hands were sacrificed in favour of more youthful presenters. I am going to miss the show. Sir Tony I salute you and the team,its been a good innings! Take up the mantel!! 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. To anyone who loves the Sunday afternoon history fix as much as I do PLEASE sign! How many people can look back on a twenty years span of such a masterful contribution to human culture? Tony, Mick,and Phil will be missed. Pay per view TV? []. Especially ones which dig a site. I THINK THIS IS A SHOCKING DECISION AND CAN ONLY HOPE THAT IT IS REVERSED!!! I download everything I can from the internet and watch on American PBS stations when I can find it. RIP Time Team. Now, instead of honest archeology, we are going to be swamped with American hystorical programming, in which they assume we all have a 1 second attention span, need constant recaps (at least 4 per 10 minute part) and need it all (badly) acted out by ridiculous, cheap, and hugely inaccurate costumes, backgrounds and language. 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. My son in his early 20s always likes to watch it. 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. Certainly the revamp for the 2012 programmes didnt do the programme any favours but another reason for the loss of viewers even before that must have been the lack of a fixed time in the schedules. 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 worked for several commercial units including Oxford Archaeology and MoLAS (as was), until he started a career at L-P Archaeology. What is the matter not retro enough for you ! It is located on the Broughton Estate in Oxfordshire, belonging to the Fiennes family. , Totally agree have enjoyed this programme since it started. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRe_gMtXNo. 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? archaeology..is what my 11 year old gran daughter is looking into training for..shows like these are needed more. 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