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. It was responsible for me going on a dig and having a great time. That is, the irritating new team members, the irritating clanging noise when Tony narrates and the increasingly less time spent in the trenches. 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. Yes, Phil can still shift the muck but check out his work on lithics studies and you might change your opinion. 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. A family programe deleted. So, Ch4 why did you do away with this gem of a program? This was a fresh ongoing series with a warm and positive vibe, an interesting treat on TV. With Season 20 airing next year, and a series of one-off specials running into 2014, there is still new Time Team on the way. DigNation 20 tickets are now on sale: https://digventures.com/projects/dignation-2020/ Can archaeologist see time depth, just by looking? And they have taken it off and broken up a brilliant team. archaeology..is what my 11 year old gran daughter is looking into training for..shows like these are needed more. I have watched Time Team for years as has my son and many many friends. They included a new presenter to join Tony Robinson and decisions to drop some archaeologists and cut down the informative stuff about the archaeology. Now I have no reason what ever to watch ch 4 now or in the future . I love a list and now I can tick off which ones Ive seen in a suitably anal fashion. I learn so much. I am sooooo sorry the series is over. Thanks to all who were involved in Time Team in any way. I am now watching past digs being repeated on More Four. 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. It may be in fifteen or so years a new Time Team will go digging in the archives of the defunct Channel 4 to explain how with the audience Channel 4 had for an entertaining and informative programme Which bright go ahead executive (IDIOT) came up with the Idea, if its not broken we must fix it. Much better than most of the rubbish we get now that there are so many channels chasing adverts & broadcasting ever increasing repeats. I agree with you . I for one will not watch any new episodes. Yes, it became a bit formulaic probably inevitable when dullard TV producers are involved. We, Yahoo, are part of the Yahoo family of brands. Regards, Paul Tressel [emailprotected], Time Team was a massive part of my life, Im still watching it even now on more 4 :O. In the immediate aftermath of a programmes cancellation it is traditional to attempt a post-mortem of what went wrong. Wasnt TT the only reason to watch Channel 4 ? Said no-one, ever. Time Teams legacy leaves much to celebrate. Sunday afternoons will never be the same, a wonderful programme. Big Thanks Time Team,will never get tired of watching the shows,fingers crossed you can make some more. We only recently discovered the Time Team show and rush to ensure we dont miss a show. I will miss Mick and Phil and Tony. A terrible loss to the worlds of broadcasting and archaeology alike, with luck a pheonix will rise from the ashes. What an absolutely stupid decision to ax Time Team! RIP Time Team. The late Robin Bush brought a degree of historical expertise that would be missed almost as much as the man himself following his departure in 2003. Long gone are the back garden digs. and use my iPad to follow through my own enquirers. I would joke with my kids when doing some gardening that I might unearth a roman soldier or a roman coin. But the influence of Time Team reaches well beyond the British Isles. 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. Envelopes hidden at strategic points would set challenges along the lines of find the Medieval high street in two hours. I am still watching episodes on Yesterday that Id somehow missed. I am an ex water board worker and I still don t know where they obtained the patience to go into a hole in the ground and dig with a trowel. I have watched Time Team since day one, and until the last two or three series have always enjoyed it. 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. This is true Reallity Television. http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html. Although I partly agree with Geoff Stelling regarding both the departure of Mick and sidelining Phil somewhat, I do think that the young archaeologists in this the last series show a great deal of promise (Jimmy, Tracey, Susannah, for example) and we are being unfair to their input to be so critical. In 2003, I joined the amateur Biggar Archaeology Group which, among other achievements, discovered the oldest known archaeological site in Scotland. will take time, i was successfull on a Campaign on another show before so i know what i have to do, The Campaign is to have a new lease of life on another tv channel. By the way I am 52, so I guess I am too old for channel 4, but tell my kids that. Its December 2016, My Hubby and I live in Queensland Australia,we have Foxtel and have the old shows on a series link and never get tired of watching the Time Team. There is a focus on interesting, previously discovered, artefacts, while pipe music lends an almost mystical air to proceedings. Time Team has left a legacy that few TV programs can match and im sure that generations to come will enjoy. very sad day in T V HISTORY. Thank you, thank you, Ive loved the passion, warmth, fun, humour and absolute professionalism that you all have brought to history. People seem to enjoy them. Best wishes, good luck and Gods speed to the lot of you! 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. I agree Shiela, a long read but entertaining, and an indication of TTs popularity. I have offten mention to my husband, I wonder what the site look like after the the TT have left. Please, please would someone bring the show back, This is just another example of Managements old adage: Its perfect; lets New and Improve it Thank you to all of Time Team for 20 wonderful years. Gee I feel gutted. Instead Time Teams format was radically overhauled. Ive got to say I think he handled the shows well. Lois & Tara, Australia Yes TR can be intensely irritating at times, but as the years have gone by I think his appreciation of the experts has increased and they have learned skills from him about presentation. I never felt patronized and certainly never notice Tony Robinson sermonizing about global warming. She was replaced by Helen Geake, Anglo-Saxon specialist. I AM SO UPSET AT THE ENDING OF TIME TEAM ! Is there any posibility of obtaining a copy of this and the program on the barge in the river Rhine. It has made the subject of archaeology interesting and accessible for everyone and if they were still activetheres an interesting mound that desperately needs investigating at the end of our road. With its awkwardly embarassing reality programming and multitude of dream come true talent shows American television is NOTHING to emulate. But when he returned to Britain, Tony found the studios equally intransient. perhaps they could do a show that showed what happens as the sites are put back to their natural state. Cutting some excellent TV and radio presenters in favor of younger ones. Id say it was as his programmes/stories Time Team were canceled by BBC (see the websites: Channel 4 Time Team and Time Team: the rise and fall of a television phenomenon). 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. Whichever fool(s) cut it, perhaps they are now also, goneso please bring Time Team back it was a great staple! Time team has been a part of tv watching since its beginning . The 2006 audience survey also identified that Time Teams core audience consisted of families and people aged over 45 / 50. Without time team on the television the world of tv is going to be a poorer place. 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. We cannot wait to share this magic with you! 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. Real shame, feels like Ive lost my friends! Also, the most recent posters may not have heard of Mick Astons premature death. Filmed at Athelney, site of Alfred the Greats apocraphal burnt cakes, the site was scheduled, precluding excavation. And the team. You should be ashamed of yourselves, especially the way you have treated Mick Aston after all those years of dedicated service. 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 .. HATE all the crap American shows taking over the tv. I cannot think why! 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. Not everyone takes change happily., The comments below have not been moderated, By We also miss Stuart very much. Also it being on an increasingly miserable Channel (4) did it no favours whatsoever. Despite some great new people who learnt fast, expecting them to produce the same calibre of product immediately was just too big a demand. I wonder if channel programmers read these blogs? I wish that ABC in Aus would start at the beginning and replay them all. It should have stayed like that and people would have carried on watching. Am now in the process of buying the DVDs. Stewart Ainswort. We love Time Team and are astonished at its demise. Just a thought If anyone knows how to get up an on line partition, perhaps we could get enough signatures to make Ch4 sit up and take notice? Now I will be stuck with overproduced, watered down supposedly historically accurate twaddle , We held a bit of a poll a few years ago with the Pagan Federation as to what the favourite TV programme was. We are headed to the UK in May from the US to see some of the TT sites. This is the sort of Programme that would thrive on BBC 2 in conjunction with The Open University. Too bad for the changes they made, these new guys tried hard, but you cant replace what the old team had, the magic, the small things, Still, Im grateful for what they achieved and for what it has meant to me and still does. Robinson has been a superb presenter and long may he continue on historical based series . The writing was on the wall when it regularly began featuring cleavage shots of diggers and the dreaded re-enactments. We have watched it form the start and enjoyed it on various level hugely. INCREDIBLE ! A brilliant series has been lost to the older viewer. 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. Thanks for the many years of wonderful, intelligent, entertainment Time Team, we will really miss you. Through understanding and helping to preserve the past, and sharing it with a worldwide audience, we hope to re-engage with the enthusiasm that so many of our fans have shown over the years., Many of the original team are already involved, both on and off screen. 1951. (Bog Latin). Very very sad. 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. TV is going downhill faster & faster. (But not, ever, I would agree, grinning totty!) Hated that they axed Mick Aston and brought in other new people!!! We do have money too you know. (Cardiff hillfort). This biographical article about a British archaeologist is a stub. My wife was not well for several years & she found Time Team to be one of the few programs worth watching. What can replace the jovial banter of all the dedicated team that gave us an insight to what was going on thousands of years ago. Have just watched the very last episode of my beloved Time Team And feel desperately sad.. 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. 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. Thats fairly unusual.. Come on BBC, take up where C4 left off PLEASE!! What about the good time team has done? I loved the camaraderie.. the discoveries.. the wonderful feeling of how people not only survived in early times..but were every bit as capable and inventive as WE think we are ! C4, please bring back the previous and successful formatting of Time Team. Hated that glamour woman simply the wrong feel.. Very, very sorry that management mis-handling killed it. the cast were so friendly to each other and the show was so intresting and made you think off our past . 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. As late as season 18 the programme was pulling in a respectable audience of 1.1 million, partly because it had built up a loyal following, and partly because the team were still digging great sites. Maybe the finding of Richard III might encourage a change of heart. Seasons 9-12 are often seen as Time Teams golden age. I am sure the essence of archeology would be attractive to a core audience once again. The only thing that surprises me is that they didnt include a so called comedian. They have onbly made a couple of mistakes, 1 was letting Mick go and the other was axing Time Team. Please read. Bring them back ! Channel 4 obviously think we are all brain dead morons who need to watch the endless mind numbing soaps or the even more pathetic American rubbish that now dominates our screens. Episode # Series # Episode Title Location Coordinates Original airdate 5: 1 "Lord of the Isles" Finlaggan, Islay: 555006N 61016W / 55.834867N 6.171225W / : 8 January 1995 (): Recorded between 24 and 26 June 1994, the team helps the National Museums of Scotland to search for the secrets of Finlaggan, the centre of the kingdom of the Lord of the Isles. I have four sons we have been Time Team fans for years. 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. Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Obliged to cut evaluation trenches to meet the deadlines of multi-million pound construction projects, the 1990s saw a surge in short-term excavation projects. Ive learnt so much and enjoying every minuteo. Margie, NZ Just did the same as Leigh trying to find out when the next series is due to start. The marvelous experts have described items, historical facts and what could have been, may have been and what was likely to have been and possibly how the ancestors [residents and visitors alike] changed the landscape. Only a fool would get rid of an engaging program like TT. 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. I am watching as many of the daily episodes as I can on New Zealands History Channel.It makes me nostalgic for the British history and archeological sites. This programme could have run and run with the younger people such as Helen Geake, Brigid, Matt and Raksha taking it into the next 20 years. 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. 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! 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. I loved it. Like Paul said (June 23 comment) you wished you could join them in the pub at the end for a beer . 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. Time Team Official 133K subscribers Time Team Teatime - Session 28 Wrapping up Black History Month and our exploration of North America's early European colonies, we're staying in St Mary's. 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. Karenza Lewis archaeological sex on legs. But its also the fact that they didnt just impart accumulated knowledge, they made new discoveries as we watched. The programs were never the same when Mick wasnt on. Its always sad when a long running and reputable series ends. I will miss my bit of kulcha. 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. We are a large audience. No, I didnt ever notice that, was I watching the right show? Its our favoite show. 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. People understand it isnt treasure hunting well, we probably still have some way to go with that one! Tim points to Over 230 films that have been seen in 36 countries. It has also helped me find out more about my own history that goes back to U.K. Have caught onto Time Team on the History Channel. So disappointed to hear the show has been axed. It will be interesting to see how the new Village Dig series comes across on TV. Ive always adored darling Tony Robinson since his days as Baldric, and Mick (RIP), Phil (gotta love him!) For those too grief stricken to cope right now, subscribe to the youtube video blog of Dig Village. It would be nice if Channel 4 admitted its error and reinstated Time Team in its proper format. I will miss time team I have watch all the series since it start The format changed and little was really seen of the dig. The 2013 series is so much better, very like the old times. Steve Singleton 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 (?) That executive was not recruited from the intellectual highbrow Channel 5 was he? Having the great pleasure to work in the UK for an Engineering firm, I was able to watch the early years of this program, up to the end. time team has over the years discovered great things. It lost its way because of the producers. He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. Self - Aston Eyre, Shropshire (1998) . Why is it that when you get a winning format, which TT clearly is, you get the morons in suits, who obviously havent a clue what the audience want, having to justify their existence by changing things. 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. Geake with Stewart Ainsworth while filming an episode of Time Team in 2007 She first worked for Time Team in 1998 as a digger, and took part occasionally thereafter as an Anglo-Saxon specialist. ARE THEY NUTS? I have watched the episode from Barra several times. There was a youthful energy to them back them, which was part of the attraction. But in this, as in so many other ways, Time Team bucks the trend. Well Done Time Team, sad to hear you are soon to be no more. It may also be heresy to say so, but I think many people who were interested more in the archaeology than the banter, found the relationship between Phil and Tony, to be past its sell by date. Here we chart the highs and lows of a revolutionary format that aimed to bring archaeology to the people. 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