Hi. This is a project in its preliminary stages, run by Tim Taylor. RIP MICK ASTON. I really loved the show and learned so much. Can you use an induction pan on a regular stove? I hope that someone has the sense to resorect TT even if it is repeated from the beginning. This is true Reallity Television. Thank you all at Time Team for a wonderful 20 years. Explore books by Phil Harding with our selection at Waterstones.com. 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. So sad to see my favourite programme on Channel 4 being axed. Gutted that Time Team has ended! So so sad, the only one of its kind and they axe it. It is the programme really. Managing Change Guide. Hated that they axed Mick Aston and brought in other new people!!! WellRay Watters has voiced my opinions exactlywatched every show many timeslearnt a vast amountlaughed aloudcried for Robin Bush.visited many siteswatched live digs on the internetfavourite themes are Saxon/Medievil so the latest episode at Oakham was superbWhat can we doCan we get our own website or freeview channel or satelite channelTHE TIME TEAM CHANNELwowendless repeats and a vast back catalougei have every episode on a hard drivedont tellsssshhhh.I would be very happy to subscribei am currently paying over 20 a month for Sky Sports and only watch it about 5 times a weekPlease let me know what you think and lets hear which are your favouritesmine is Hartlepool as this is where i am and my mother was born on the site of the Ancient AbbeyHeres hoping. Thanks Julia and Lizbeth. Trained on excavations with the Bristol University Extra Mural Department and other bodies from 1966 he has been a professional archaeologist since 1971. . It should have stayed like that and people would have carried on watching. Now everyone knows the word geophys. Axing time team is a huge mistake. The foregoing is an exhausting but entertaining read. and spoke about his decision to adopt a vegan diet. Ive enjoyed watching all the archeologists old and new & think Tony Robinson is a great presenter. I think the writing was on the wall when the powers that be messed about with it, moving its base to Cardiff and losing quality staff and goodwill. I agree. The result was a previously unknown 5th-century monastic enclosure linked to St Columba. Were back thanks to the overwhelming support of our fans!. Since 2015, Harding has been an archaeological supervisor for the veteran support charity Waterloo Uncovered, which conducts archaeology on the battlefield of Waterloo alongside veterans and serving personnel. Is there any posibility of obtaining a copy of this and the program on the barge in the river Rhine. We NEED Time Team. I was just looking for where any dig sites would be this year and discovered the program was being axed! Eat umble pie you are having a laff. All I can tell u is that I was hooked. An episode where a workplace expert was on stand by for structural shoring when common sense would have not wasted this kind of expense. Lytham St Annes. 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. As an amateur digger, I envied TTs resources a JCB on call, geophysics, dendrochronology, C14 dating, DNA analysis. In a nutshell, that is the most relevant comment I have read on here. Its sad to see another worthwhile educational program going by the wayside. This comment by Peter Thomas is an excellent precis of all that has been said. Whilst on holiday, I was very keen to spend a day or so, if possible, with the Time Team crew wherever they might be shooting. A terrible loss to the worlds of broadcasting and archaeology alike, with luck a pheonix will rise from the ashes. and have watched it since the begining. There are DVDs, some available on Amazon uk. I absolutely agree with everything you said ! Hated that glamour woman simply the wrong feel.. Very, very sorry that management mis-handling killed it. What is wrong with older viewers? 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. Youre right about More4 but try Discovery History which is showing what I think must be very early ones judging by the colour (and amount!) 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. What a disappointment that BBC4 chose to cancel the series! He has become a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series Time Team. Its amazing. Aston died unexpectedly at his home in the summer of that same year. The comment by Peter Thomas is excellent and is a very eloquent summation. Im tired of the idiots that run TV and Im ready for revolution.whos with me!!! I entirely agree with the article it was definately the loss of Mick and the two new ones that ryined it for me and I have always loved it!! A month after his death, a 'tribute night to Aston was broadcast on More4, showing some of his best moments and most important discoveries. Time Team's Phil Harding explains why Waterloo Uncovered is such an important project, during our first excavation at Hougoumont Farm in 2015. We also miss Stuart very much. I am still watching episodes on Yesterday that Id somehow missed. They cant bring it back. It would be nice if Channel 4 admitted its error and reinstated Time Team in its proper format. I agree with you . His father, Ralph, died of a heart attack in 1977 at the age of 57.[2]. And the team. My youngest is 10 and has been a fan from as early as I can remember, he has his own dig at the bottom of our garden and a massive fossil collection. i say dont be too quick to make a stupid decision. Subscribe to Current Archaeology the UKs favourite archaeology magazine and like thousands of other people you too can get details of all the latest digs and discoveries delivered to your door, every month. Perhaps searching can help. His zodiac sign is Aquarius. Phil's appointment follows an extensive search and interviews with a very strong field of candidates. This made him a contentious figure among some of his contemporaries and he was deeply wounded by the vociferous attacks he suffered, particularly in the early years of Time Team. I have loved it from the first episode and who cares if Tony is a little OTT sometimes, he keeps it entertaining and all together. The more TV appeal execs tried to inject, the less people wanted to watch. Phil Harding is Time Teams resident trench-excavator. (3 different history channels, Discovery channel, Travel channel, Military channel, National Geographic channel the list goes on and on. I studied art and have worked for the V&A, meeting many interesting historians. Spoilt in the end by Fixing something that want bust. 1999Tracie Duncanm. The attempted dumbing down of Time Team smacks of dim executives meeting to dish corporate cliches out to one another. 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. 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. 2003Michelle Johnsonm. 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. I hope its not the end of Time Team. I will miss time team I have watch all the series since it start The programme has been an inspiration to me and I am sure to many people and for me has kindled an interest in history via archaeology that we can find all around us in our everyday lives. Mick, Tony Phil, Carenza Lewis, etc bring it back as there are no current programs that come close. Hi Serena, you can find a complete episode and series guide of all 230 programmes plus the specials on this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Time_Team_episodes Plenty more to come for you yet, if only More 4 would stop repeating the same episodes over and over again and show some of the others they could keep you (and the rest of us) happy for years to come. Its put me very on edge not to know where Im up to and I think Channel 4 should be funding my medication for hypertension, blurred vision (tears I think) and severe withdrawal already before its ended. All the members of the team are keen to promote archaeology, I once witnessed Phil Harding rushing from trench to trench when TT were in York, stopping, turning off his radio and spending time talking to some enthusiastic kids about what he was doing, how he was doing it and why, the kids were transfixed by his enthusiasm, his ability to communicate his subject at many different levels being an inspiring sight. Phil annoys me at times, by always stealing the limelight when lesser mortals had done the hard graft,but, the highlights were when lesser mortals (IE Raksha, Matt or Ian) had exciting finds and were allowed to show.Victors drawings were more lively and thought provoking than the boring computer graphics.I will start to miss the programme in two years time, when we finally complete seies 20. I cannot believe that there will be no more Time Team, I hope the idiots at channel 4 read this site. Always worked so hard and made sense of sites that could have remained a mystery. As others have said, lets hope that the B.B.C. I have just realised that time team is to be axed by c4. 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 (?) 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. I feel really, really angry about it, he told British Archeology magazine. Off now to have a quick dig in my garden then on to Salisbury to stalk Phil Harding.intelligence soooo sexy. 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). Ive watched since episode 1 as well and yet Im not gutted because these days you see a lot more archaeology programmes on tv as a result of their achievement. Suddenly Channel 4 was receptive to the idea of a major archaeology programme. Home | About | Contact | Copyright | Privacy | Cookie Policy | Terms & Conditions | Sitemap. We live in USA. The format was being refreshed in a bid to stem slowly falling ratings. Shades of the quiz-show concept do survive into early episodes of Time Team proper. Very sad to hear Time Team is ending. TT is without doubt, the best offering in British television. A family programe deleted. I was sad to see Carenza leave and sad to hear of the death of Robin Bush. 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. 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. To me that is a programme which went from being a programme presented by farmers and people who knew about the countryside to one in which there is only one farmer and is full of clich-ridden pap. Maybe after all these replies BBC4 may approach the original team !!! With Tony Robinson, Phil Harding, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth. 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. My nana came from England in 1901. Youve said it all, I totally agree! Unlike many here, I think Mary Anne Ochota was a qualified addition to evolve and maintain the momentum of the series. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode featured a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in lay terms. 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. if thereis any justice in the world they shoud change there minds.TONY MICK PHIL STEWART JOHN MAT RAKSHA BRIGID CARENZA TO MENTION a few. When You Breathe In Your Diaphragm Does What. 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. Lets hope that BBC4 takes up the genre. All Rights Reserved, We use cookies to enhance your experience while using our website. Good job I have the internet to log onto. What a shame to see TT let go. I owe a debt of gratitude to the wonderful Time Team ensemble. A long-time member of Channel 4s Time Team, Raksha Dave is one of the countrys best loved archaeologists. TT was an outstanding program. TT has inspired me to take up the challenge of retraining at the age of 67 for a second career in Heritage and Museum studies. I love Time Team and regularly binge watch have seen many episodes several times. Its the best show! Mick Aston, 65, quits historical show after it hires Cambridge graduate Mary-Ann Ochota, 30. The major players seem tired and cranky, and while they are all professionals and are trying very hard to be positive and upbeat, its obvious that they are trying, and that ruins it. 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. Show creator Tim Taylor has since confirmed they will begin work on two new YouTube episodes, with two more in . 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. 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. If you are using our Services via a browser you can restrict, block or remove cookies through your web browser settings. 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. 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. I have four sons we have been Time Team fans for years. It was one of the most brilliant Programmes ever on TV. THEY DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS. And now our children and grandchildren watch the programme but not for long now. Relatives, jobs, social network profiles - Radaris people search engine. He told BBC Points West Professor Aston was "such a really nice guy and a seriously . May be he could be a Lord? Couldnt agree more. People like myself really appreciate history coming to life as Time Team presented it. I live in Minnesota and am anxious to explore sites of the indigenous people who lived and continue to live here. Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over 25. I am wondering how many viewers watch the Time Team now. Mon 24 Jun 2013 19.12 EDT Archaeologist and broadcaster Mick Aston, who found fame with TV programme Time Team, has died aged 66. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode featured a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson . From Phils glee over Stone Age flints, Tonys wisely playful and challenging banter, Micks sage hand on the digs tiller, Johns gentle determination to get the best cartography the technology can provide, Franciss round house fireside mussing on an Iron Age mans joys in life and Stuart goes walk about so we can get the lay of the land and know our place in it was amazing, every bit of it. Dec 19. I have only lately discovered time team and I love it I record as many episodes as I can and I think all of the cast make the show I was never interested in archeology but I am addicted now just watchedthe Salisbury plain one with the soldiers who are coping with life and one said that watching TT helped hime to relax and began to enjoy life again Time Team cancelled by Channel 4? I love time team because it is filled with such enthusiasm and love for its subject. All I can say is thank you to all at Time Team. 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