200k an episode? Prof Mick, great bloke and always so calm, Carensa made a lot of episodes more entertaining and TR a god of comedy and history. Required fields are marked *. Keep the show going its fantastic Ive been watching it as long as I can remember Very very sad. I therefore conclude that the program is enjoyed by audiences of all ages. 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! Just heard about the axing of Time Team what a shame! It was actually only revived this year on YouTube (via Patreon backing), after being axed from Channel 4 in 2014. Personal life. The breathtaking 3D model it produced of the buried structures persuaded English Heritage to commission a complete survey on the spot. PLEASE bring it back. They had a meeting which they didnt invite me to and said the BBCs Countryfile was the model. very sad day for us and the time team cast. and which would be the best way to alienate the people working on the programme. Speak for your self! Speaking to Express.co.uk, Tony said he won't be. Will you still be able to buy Godiva chocolate? I loved every member of the cast and crew. Bringing in that awful woman for the last series was the straw that broke the camels back. Phil Abramson . It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but it was heading there. What a hero! Aston died unexpectedly at his home in the summer of that same year. Not blaming her particularly, but her entry seemed to also disturb the group dynamics of the cast, which was one of the things that made it so enjoyable. It is just so sad to read all of these comments, like a requiem for a friend. Yes, really hope so! In their defence producer Graham Dixon issued this statement: "It's not just a steady decline in interest in archeology, with shows being pushed back to ever more obscure digital channels. Over 333,000 copies of this popular free guide issued worldwide from 2004 to 2020 (and still in demand.) By the way I am 52, so I guess I am too old for channel 4, but tell my kids that. They cant bring it back. 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. Stewart has always been my top hero too, although I loved everyone without exception till the changes happened. It used to be on in the early evening at a specific time every week, but in recent years it has been moved to late afternoon with the start time changing by 5, 10, 15 minutes over the weeks making watching and even recording it more problematic. Really gutted TT has finished, and shame on Channel 4 for this decision! And we have just recently lost Mick Aston, the Rock of Gibraltar of the show. Time team is one of the programs I love to watch. x. Condolences to Micks family, his friends and his colleagues. Lets hope that somebody in control is also a fan and a compromise can be reached. Series Producer and creator of Time Team, Tim Taylor says, They did it! My enduring memory of Tony Robinson during Time Team filming is him spending several hours of every day asleep in a massive American car with the engine running. British Television just one more nail in your coffin. One of the people she missed was Carenza Lewis. DREADFUL ! I have loved Time Team for years and wish that there were not so many bone heads in Channel 4. My wife was not well for several years & she found Time Team to be one of the few programs worth watching. Afterall SA is used to watching loads of rubbish repeats every day!!! Think again C4, as someone who is 40 years outside your target audience, all axing this program has done is make me switch channels, so demographically relevant or not you have simply lost another viewer and surely viewer numbers are more important than some misguided attempt to only appeal to a certain age group? Such a shame a beautiful show as this is axed and they show such dribble as reality tv shows blah yuk. What a shame to see it go, but what a swan song. The last series was disappointing without Helen and Stuart who were replaced by people without half their expertise. Somehow I feel her nearness when I watched it after she was gone. Just been reading all the comments, and a lot of sensible thinhs have been said, and a few stupid ignorant ones as well. But in this, as in so many other ways, Time Team bucks the trend. Taylor says, It would have been great to show Basil Brown the new technology, which enables us to see 3D images of the archaeology underground, allowing us to precisely target our excavation., Taylor continues: This dig signals the start of a fascinating new chapter for Time Team. My cable TV subscription gives us awesome selections for history, science, and information buffs! However, as a viewer I hugely enjoyed the opportunity to share in the Teams excitement. VALE Time Team, a wonderful Viking/ Roman pyre is burning and we are drinking ourselves to oblivion. Managing Change Guide. Was it her sultry beauty, or easy going attitude that rubs some the wrong way ? Also, a Presenter is not supposed to insult the experts he is reporting on. Matt has dressed up and lived the life of a Roman soldier, Medieval lay-brother and even home-guard infantry, to name a few. Great news that it is ending now we can have even more programs about yobs drinking abroad, crappy makeovers, the life of white van drivers and buying houses that cost 250,000 or more. 20 years is a long time in television. Carenzas missing as is Helen, I see Mick walked out as I also presume Stewart has too. I have watched every episode from season 1, some many times. 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 began to grow its following, introducing a whole new audience to archaeology. But once the old hands started to disappear the magic went too. Like Paul said (June 23 comment) you wished you could join them in the pub at the end for a beer . I cant believe how much I have learned during Covid lock down because of Time Team. Here in South Africa we ahave been treated to some series and odd programs which I really enjoyed. Whats wrong with a passing reference to global warming unless you are an eccentric climate change denier? The collection of grave goods dubbed the Harpole Treasure after the name of the local parish has been dated to AD 630-670. Tony Robinson, global warming? Judged a misfire by Channel 4, it could have been the end. I was just looking for where any dig sites would be this year and discovered the program was being axed! Just watched a poor programme on Brancaster digfull of errors and poor production. By clicking "Reject all" you reject all non-essential cookies and similar technologies, but Yahoo will continue to use essential cookies and similar technologies. Its interesting that Ch 4 is dropping a program on history and education, are they really dumbing down to suit a younger age group whose programs contain bad language smut and sex, bad attitudes and a large sense of self. I watched every show, every season, and I never noticed that Tony had an obsession with Romans. Yes, that was a great one. Philip Harding DL FSA (born 25 January 1950) is a British field archaeologist. Whichever fool(s) cut it, perhaps they are now also, goneso please bring Time Team back it was a great staple! pain this is all I can say in thinking that the single most important program ever to put PASSION in archaeology has been culled for giving more profit$ in adverts to run of the mill crap so long TimeTeam but rest assured you have YOUR place in history now! 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. I loved watching time team I want it to come back on the tv I miss watching it on Sunday afternoon. maybe someone will dig you out of the tombs of c4 in time. For those people who wish to view old episodes back to day 1 surely all you need to do is put channel 4, possibly you may need to add UK.com, if overseas, into your search engine,register on line,confirm e mail address and then enter Time Team in the search box.You can even view Time Signs the original pilot series. Who is Mary Ann & what does she bring to the table? I have scoured the Internet watching every episode I can find, some more than once. And there is still so much they can show and teach us. Harding trained on various excavations with the Bristol University Extra Mural Department and other bodies from 1966; he has been a professional archaeologist since 1971. This little part of the world (so far from Australia) was the birthplace of my father in law. sundays seem empty without my time team fix. 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 have seen every episode of time team and ive never seen him mention anything like that other than one time, so you are a complete moron and need to look up what the word patronize means since i am now patronizing you. What screwed up Time Time was poor scheduling two years ago and an attempt to sex up the show and this failed miserably. All I can tell u is that I was hooked. This is the sort of Programme that would thrive on BBC 2 in conjunction with The Open University. now I rely on repeats. Goodbye, Time Team, and thank you. Time Team did a superb job and has an excellent track record of quality archaeology, bringing the subject to millions via TV and publishing the results! Thank you. Bring them back ! Were not archaeologists but were not stupid either it really did feel like they had decided the audience was unintelligent. 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. The UK is lucky that it has such a long history. 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. 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. I agree with the above sentiments, get the brilliant crew back. They tried to make it edgy and the thing I loved about time team was its lack of edginess? the only programmes on t v seems to me rubbish what are all the staff going to do as they have been on the show for so long. Lytham St Annes. 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? Just a thought/ John. The programme has no need for eye candy, no need to try to attract yuppies: archaeology is like genealogy interest grows (although not exclusively) with age. I will miss Mick and Phil and Tony. Not all of us want mindless reality TV that costs a few bob to present. I lost my job recently due to illness.time team made my days. I note that none of them ever received a gong. Just started to watch the latest series on C4, very very sad to be losing it soon. Phil Harding is Time Teams resident trench-excavator. 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. 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. I too am upset that this has been axed. Without Mick Aston it will not be the same, but as such it will be a fitting tribute to a great forward thinking man. The Isle of Mull episode in season 17 is a great example of what could be discovered. I just love this programme and am very sad to hear that there will be no more. I loved it. I used to love all the research that they put into it. Please bring together the old team Mick, Phil, Carenza, John, Francis and Stewart. Unlike many here, I think Mary Anne Ochota was a qualified addition to evolve and maintain the momentum of the series. Contents 1 Life and career Time team is irreplaceable. Most of what I feel about the demise of TT has already been said here. On the other hand, all good things come to an end. but they wont last forever and young blood is always needed. 2021 CURRENT PUBLISHING LTD - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. I now watch with complete interest in what is going on in the world of Archaeology and love everything about our great nations past. Meet the Ancestors was also a good programme we need more Archaelogy programmes on TV. Team Team gang were so funny with their understanding of each other and professional approach to their subject, their knowledge of it all and portrayal to the audience was so entertaining, and Tony added an open view to a usually flat subject, with his level headed approach to academics and gave it life. we dont want more programmes that is rubbish there is more than i could even say. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the digs and finds discovered by the crew. In South africa we have seen so few TT programs and when in the UK on holiday I imediately check for surren programs to watch. Without time team on the television the world of tv is going to be a poorer place. 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