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. and use my iPad to follow through my own enquirers. Please ressurect it someone soon. The money was well spent, and today only five Time Team sites remain unpublished a record that shames many UK units and academics. Sadly, my wife passed away in January 2012 but I carried on watching it until it ended. Possibly my favourite television programme. The writing was on the wall when it regularly began featuring cleavage shots of diggers and the dreaded re-enactments. In fact, I actually struggle to watch any anyway, as I made clear at the beginning the post production is irritating. Agree 100%, they should have left it well alone. 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. 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. The show ran on the chemistry among the original team, and failed to work as they left or lost interest. They were digging Roman ruins in someones back garden and explaining in detail what they were doing and what it told them hooked then and there. It was season 19 that changed everything. Much better than most of the rubbish we get now that there are so many channels chasing adverts & broadcasting ever increasing repeats. While filming Timesigns, Tim and Mick regularly discussed other ways to bring archaeology to a television audience. I loved watching time team I want it to come back on the tv I miss watching it on Sunday afternoon. I always look forward to it when I get chance and to know that it is finishing is both shocking and disappointing. This program has opened up so much of Great Britain to me and I am in love with suach a picturesque landscape and such a rich history. I just can not believe we will not see his fabulous jumpers again.. ( except in repeats of course ). An audience study in 2006 indicated that 20 million people watched at least one show that year. There is definitly an opportunity for BBC2 together with The Open University to take over when Time Team ceases. As an amateur digger, I envied TTs resources a JCB on call, geophysics, dendrochronology, C14 dating, DNA analysis. Prior to us, by and large archaeology was something you could only really appreciate if you read books with long words in them. I am off to channel four to ask them what is wrong with audiences that are over 40, 50 or even 60, what is wrong with older peoples programmes? Great format, educational safe family viewing. Not on the Live I dug at. I loved Mick and Phil and Stuart et all, picking on Matt for any rotton job. Lively interpersonal dynamics, celebratory meals and wine, inviting locals to learn more about the world around them back in time, diverse resources and approaches coordinating and appreciating each other- some reading. (now part of English Heritage) in 1985, and is now head of its Landscape Investigation Team based in York, England. What happened to Stewart Ainsworth? Learning? do they ever have reunions whereby you could meet the surviving characters.. i hate computers these days, they act up. Time Team brought so much into my life, being bed ridden, television being a large part of my life now. Ive binge watched Time Team on YouTube and up to S17. 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. Teatime 26: Stewart Ainsworth - Return to Nevis 14,215 views Premiered Oct 11, 2020 Time Team Teatime: Session 26 - As Black History Month continues in the UK, we catch up with Stewart. Ridiculous. I love time team. I suppose I will have to go back to Dads Army for a bit of sanity then, Robyn Australia I always made sure be there watching when it was on. Spot on. 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. I rue the fact that as a child we used encyclopaedias 20 years out of date. With the archaeologists at the height of their game, by now the team was so confident of the three-day regime that development producer Jim Mower describes their appearance on site as like getting the A Team in. 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. You were apparently watching a different show than we were. Leave it to an insular management team to screw it up. Big Bang (repeat), Simpsons (repeat), Simpsons (another repeat), Maid in Manhattan (good grief!). Maybe the resulting reruns and you tube videos will be a template for all group endeavors. TV is a wasteland and TT was an oasis in it. Would love to see a new Time Team series up and running again especially now theyve found King Richard llls body, also instead of 3 days to uncover make it a 5-7 days to uncover maybe Geo-physics could find out a lot more information so here is a challenge to all the mainstream TV channels bring back Time Team! They cant bring it back. 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. Little surprise she became a history teacher. 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! I started looking to find more information about the history of Henham park & was so sad to see the show has been axed. Despite the Ancient Monuments Laboratory having drawn a blank the year before, Johns state-of-the-art kit revealed the monastic complex in startling clarity. DigNation 20 tickets are now on sale: https://digventures.com/projects/dignation-2020/ Can archaeologist see time depth, just by looking? Just discovered that this had been axed. Is there any posibility of obtaining a copy of this and the program on the barge in the river Rhine. You clearly have no idea what youve done. 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. And so agree with all here who say that C4 is very sadly dumbed down from its early days and mission. Thats fairly unusual.. The final piece of the jigsaw fell into place during the fledgling Time Teams first episode. The old team are the best Mick, Phil, Tony et al.. think Channel 4 have made a HUGE mistake bet they wont listen to the public.. Southern Gaulish Samian ware, or Green Glaze, 14th Century. Observing how so many, different, recondite specialty fields come together paleopalynography. Hope it returns anne from Ontario Canada. Time Team brought archaeology to the publics attention (including mine) and will be sorely missed. Your Upper Classes have been re-inventing themselves as New Romans and Empire builders for some time now, particularly in the last few centuries.They lost touch with who they ACTUALLY were and their own people. BRING BACK TIME TEAM PLEASE!!!! This did happen in fact, but the show kept going with Mick Aston and (Sir) Tony Robinson always at the helm. Far too many highlights to choose a favourite, but Ill always have a soft spot for the tone of Tony Robinsons voice when he explained that the sash-cum-swordbelt worn by Saxon fighters was called a baldric. For those too grief stricken to cope right now, subscribe to the youtube video blog of Dig Village. As Francis Pryor observed on his blog, in many ways the real question is what went right?. Eat umble pie you are having a laff. After university, he worked as Somerset's first County Archaeologist before returning to university as a lecturer. It feels very sad that I shant do that. Have watched 8 seasons and enjoying them all. They tried to make it edgy and the thing I loved about time team was its lack of edginess? Its the best show! YOU HAVE JUST NOT THOUGHT THIS THROUGH! So disappointed to hear the show has been axed. Good quality programmes do cost a little extra.Have watched the programme from the start and my 6 year old daughter did also and was entertained by TRs presentation, she can still imitate that enthusiastic burst of speed across a field whilst talking to camera. SAVE TIME TEAM, Closing in on 4,000 signatures already: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html, Hey guys just a quick update of a Article we have got up promoting the SAVE TIME TEAM Campaign. It follows so much what has been prevallent in recent years on Brittish TV and thats dumbing down. Log in or sign up to leave a comment. Well it seems the bean counters got their way. Im the guy who set it up, iv got the page on Facebook, Twitter and the main website that i run. The only thing that surprises me is that they didnt include a so called comedian. Pay per view TV? Expertise honed over 15 years was lost at a stroke, to be replaced by crew and production staff who knew neither each other nor archaeology. Official website also launched: http://www.TimeTeamFans.com Thanks everyone. I love Time Team and regularly binge watch have seen many episodes several times. Here we chart the highs and lows of a revolutionary format that aimed to bring archaeology to the people. Self Show all 7 episodes age is no barrier in archaeology and many of us dont start until our 40s and 50s. When not filming, Stewart also works as an investigator and project manager for English Heritage. I live in Minnesota and am anxious to explore sites of the indigenous people who lived and continue to live here. I learn so much. I was disappointed with the change in format, it was like losing family. Phew! However I would contact Channel Four to find out when they will be repeating it again and maybe arrange to record the programmes. Sir Tony can do no wrong with me. 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. Im writing this having just had my daily lunchtime fix of a Tiime Team repeat on More 4. A thoroughly good bunch of people with a true PASSION for their subject ! Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hi Alan, thanks a lot for your reply very helpful. 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. Whats on at this afternoon? 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. By the way I am 52, so I guess I am too old for channel 4, but tell my kids that. Not that I want to live there though am quite happy to be an Australian. Why cant these so-called clever people just leave things alone. I have several friends who are serious archaeologists who have been dismissive of this program over the years, some of their comments about the lack of time for each dig are valid. 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