I am devastated to hear about Mick Aston.. That is, the irritating new team members, the irritating clanging noise when Tony narrates and the increasingly less time spent in the trenches. DREADFUL ! I THINK THIS IS A SHOCKING DECISION AND CAN ONLY HOPE THAT IT IS REVERSED!!! Have only just found out that Time Team has been axed after 20 years and I am gutted. Biggest mistake ever! I am going to miss the show. Were not archaeologists but were not stupid either it really did feel like they had decided the audience was unintelligent. The format was part of the problem. While I wont be involved in the new sites, I was delighted to accept the role of honorary patron of the Time Team project. Time Team was the product (exclusively) of Channel 4 a commercial TV-only company that was created in the early 80s. irritating but he was a part of a recipe that worked for a long time. Yet time and time again they did it with grace, charm, humor and knowledge. Couldnt agree more. while the Facebook page is slowly building! my gosh, I am from Chula Vista Ca. I guess I will have to plan a trip to the UK to get my archaeology fix now. Hello from the US. 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. Its sad to see another worthwhile educational program going by the wayside. It needed to get back to its roots look at the early episodes to see why it was successful. What are you going to replace it with? Why cant these so-called clever people just leave things alone. Thanks for the many years of wonderful, intelligent, entertainment Time Team, we will really miss you. 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. Axing time team is a huge mistake. 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. 2023. RIP Time Team. Am now in the process of buying the DVDs. When he took this pitch to various studios, however, no one wanted to know. Im sorry to see that TT is folding though. The technology now at our disposal, and a new generation of archaeologists joining the team, is a fantastic prospect. With its awkwardly embarassing reality programming and multitude of dream come true talent shows American television is NOTHING to emulate. It was an opening into a different world that gave me hope that THIS one can be sorted out ! I learn so much. 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. The utterly ridiculous Dig by Wire (S19E01) would have put me off permanently had it been the first episode I had seen (What, helicopters dont work on Gateholm?). By the way I am 52, so I guess I am too old for channel 4, but tell my kids that. My politics are not Tony Robinsons or Mick Astons, but both deserve warm congratulations for what they did for archaeology and viewers over two decades.Tony Robinson seems to be largely responsible for the successful populist formula, the zest and the humourand the succinct resumes to stop viewers getting flummoxed., He deserves a knighthood but presumably he would just wrinkle his nose. Channel 4s choices are definitely a bit strange to many of us. I would be very interested in acquiring DVDs of the whole series to watch at my leaisure. I am Canadian-born but living near Atlanta, Geogia, and travel to the UK often. Surely television that inspires interest and development is too good to lose? His role translating archaeology into laymens terms was pure genius. I enjoyed all the archaeologists and presenter Tony Robinson. 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. You talk rubbish mate! I download everything I can from the internet and watch on American PBS stations when I can find it. I cannot believe that Mick Aston has died, so very young, I thought he would go on forever. My husband said I bet you want to get Phill round now. . Hundreds of pounds would be spent on scientific dating such as C14, with the results only coming back in time for a line of dialogue to be dubbed on months after filming had concluded. Shattered. I found it much preferable to the Planet Earth shows of David Attenbrough. Last night (17 June 2014), they had a prominent, crude cartoon of a mans sexual equipment inserted into this highly humorous clip. 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. Watching how the team coalesce over time and their skills mature. A thoroughly good bunch of people with a true PASSION for their subject ! Carenza Lewis, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake and geophys genius John Gater will all be returning and are excited about the new sites. What idiot made this particular decision to cancel such an interesting and educational series! (and its cost increases). Prior to us, by and large archaeology was something you could only really appreciate if you read books with long words in them. Channel 4 can go to where it rightly belongs confined to History. Some episodes Ive seen over three times each. Thanks to you all. Maybe one day she will say sorry to us all. I also never felt patronised by Tony Robinson, and loved the way he frequently asked questions that the audience would have wanted to know themselves. Lets hope that somebody in control is also a fan and a compromise can be reached. 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. . I was surfing the internet to obtain correct titles for some episodes that I recorded earlier. 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? And really, TT changed my life! maybe someone will dig you out of the tombs of c4 in time. The Mick Aston informative, involving wide range of age and expertise-or students out in the field working version, not the americanised teenybopper version as touted by c4 accountants. We are a large audience. Watched it since the beginning, some great episodes and fantastic digs. The 2013 series is so much better, very like the old times. They seem to have replaced alot of the original cast for more easy on the eye team members, the new historian was a prime example. I never had any interest in my UK ancestors heritage and the conditions they must have endured until I watched the team in action. and have watched it since the begining. Im writing this having just had my daily lunchtime fix of a Tiime Team repeat on More 4. Time Team isnt the same without Mick and Phill is the token hot tottie (uh hum!) Here in South Africa we ahave been treated to some series and odd programs which I really enjoyed. She studied at University College London and University of York, specialising in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. 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 So why could it not continue on and evolve in 2013 ? 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. Real shame, feels like Ive lost my friends! I just can not believe we will not see his fabulous jumpers again.. ( except in repeats of course ). Sounds ageism to me, isnt that against the law now? A brief history of Time Team Time Team 's genesis is a well-rehearsed story. I will miss time team I have watch all the series since it start We will suffer forever without the seasonal hours of archaeology, in all its forms. Watching the archaeologists and seeing their enthusiasm at even the smallest find,is to me infectious. here was atransfixing series, turning elitist subject into everyday knowledge for the ordinary man. I continue to be in awe of the fantastic skill and enthusiasm of the presenters.May TT be always available to us. Stewart has always been my top hero too, although I loved everyone without exception till the changes happened. C4 have put money into British Archaeology, when no one else could or would presumably, and as has been pointed out, much of that money went into post excavation work, which although not good TV is absolutely vital as far as each site is concerned. What proved to be the fateful conversation took place in a Little Chef on the Okehampton bypass. Im in my mid 40s. 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. 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. My parents watch it. I was thinking, isnt it about time Time Team was on? He was an inspiration to me and to so many others. Still, we liked to watch something online every now and than rather than read a book, play a game or just talk to each other and thats when my husband showed me the first episodes of Time Team, which he remember from his youth. 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. Thank goodness there is a myriad of viewers who appreciate the achievement of Time Team. All I can say is thank you to all at Time Team. That executive was not recruited from the intellectual highbrow Channel 5 was he? So my husband looked for more info. Stewart Ainsworth (born 26 June 1951) is a British archaeological investigator who was regularly seen on Time Team, the Channel 4 archaeological television series. Love the show and all the characters especially Phil! I am gutted Time Team is for the chop, I love it!!! Time Team cancelled by Channel 4? channel 4 needs to take a look at the BBC they cut and brought back Dr Who look at how its made a great comeback. Pay per view TV? Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth on How To See Time In The Landscape. It may not have been archaelogical perfection but it did make archaeology appealing to many and did digs that no one had the funds or interest to do. I will miss Mick and Phil and Tony. 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. I still watch the series on U-tube. Not everyone takes. I wonder if some young Channel 4 TV executive is proud of his/her decisions. Condolences on your chronic issue with clever people. Time Team: Created by Tim Taylor. Find out more here. Like others I have loved TT right from the start and have always enjoyed it.
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