Whilst not filming Phil still works as a field archaeologist with Wessex Archaeology, and has been involved in a project listing all known Palaeolithic sites in Britain. I wonder how Tony felt with this introduction, as he had been doing the job for so long, and never once boring. If those of us who have never met him mourn today, how much more must his friends and family be feeling his passing? 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. with the Amazonian co-presenter with the huge bonded teeth. However BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a state-owned institution from inter-war origins. Special thanks also to the fantastic people behind the research, graphics, computer animation that added so much to each episode. I know real archaeologists are dismissive of Time Team but I loved it. The lesson is that if you have a slightly faded masterpiece, dont try and touch it up with the aid of novices. I am gutted Time Team is for the chop, I love 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! 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. This is in no doubt as a direct result of the post production. Tamara Cohen for the Daily Mail, Mick Aston, 65, quits historical show after it hires Cambridge graduate Mary-Ann Ochota, 30, Prof Aston was on long-running show for 19 years, DAN WOOTTON: Too old for TV? TV is going downhill faster & faster. You only have to look at the great interest shown over Richard III to realise that yes there is a market for a programme of this nature. It was my favourite show for many years and definitely, for me, left so many other scientifically accurate but boring-as-bat-poo documentaries in its dust. Requested by a commissioning editor to wear more colourful clothing Mick turned up in the most garish garment he could find as a joke, only to be told it was perfect. The site is of national importance and we couldnt hope for a better team to help uncover its secrets., Time Teams return has had the backing of many celebrity fans, from Sir Michael Morpurgo and Bernard Cornwell to Philippa Gregory, Kate Mosse and Ken Follett. Years earlier, Sir Mortimer Wheeler did some Archaeology pgms on TV and they were always popular. I had no idea it had finished. Wasnt TT the only reason to watch Channel 4 ? As a teacher of Ancient and Modern History in Australia, I found the T.T programs a wonderful way to back up the various topics I taught. Do specials instead of a series. Emails,from those who have just learned that TT was cancelled a year ago are still dropping into my in box. I never had any interest in my UK ancestors heritage and the conditions they must have endured until I watched the team in action. Also, the most recent posters may not have heard of Mick Astons premature death. , Totally agree have enjoyed this programme since it started. Yes I agree I miss fresh episode aswell please come back, Yes I agree, the quality of weekend television is terrible give us back some interesting programs, Still record and watch the show love it all I can say is Bring back Time Team. There is a huge following in Australia and after the debacle with the producers bringing in you know who as a co-presenter (of cleavage), the show started its slow path to division. The fun gone out of Sunday teatime! 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. Best wishes to everyone ever involved with the show. Tony R told us that the fort was not connected by road What???? VALE Time Team, a wonderful Viking/ Roman pyre is burning and we are drinking ourselves to oblivion. [] One of best, very passionate three part on geology of Great Britain was filmed with Mr Tony Robinson who is/was excellent presenter. I watch any that come on now.. saw one yesterday about the digging our of the 2 world war planes in the bogs.. That they were able to achieve what very few others were able to achieve and give a thirst to the man-in-the-street in what could be classed as a dry subject only adds weight to what they were able to achieve in such a fantastic way. Found Time Team on You Tube. Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth on How To See Time In The Landscape. 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. Time Team (Collection 2) - 11-DVD Box Set : Tony Robinson, Phil Harding, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth, Mick Aston, Victor Ambrus, Henry Chapman, Ian Powlesland, Matt . Having said that, I hope this means Time Team DVDs will now be more available to those of us in the US who adore the show. Some single episodes already . You wonder what kind of palsy comes over TV programers when they occasionally axe the best shows, shows with strong, solid substance!!! Channel 4 you need looking at!!! xx. Time Team - Mick Aston (1946-2013) Mick Aston (1946-2013) Archaeological Consultant Professor Michael Antony 'Mick' Aston was Time Team's much-loved Archaeological Consultant. Failing that I can recommend looking at Google Maps satellite pictures of your local area looking for earthworks hours of fun! He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. Thank you all for giving us years of delight and thank God for DVDs. 2023 CURRENT PUBLISHING LTD - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Changing all the staff behind Time Team was a big mistake, but ending it is even bigger. All the others as far back as 1828 from Ireland and Scotland. 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. So so sad, the only one of its kind and they axe it. You have left us wanting more which of course is the best way to end a show. Yet despite bringing the past to life using the familiar ingredients of excavation, landscape survey and reconstructions including Phil felling a tree with a flint axe Timesigns is a very different beast. We range in age from 8yrs to 82yrs and have loved Tony, Mick, Phil, Carenza, Helen, Faye, geophys John and most of all Stuart. I never felt patronized and certainly never notice Tony Robinson sermonizing about global warming. I dont know. Robinson has been a superb presenter and long may he continue on historical based series . Hopefully it will be picked up by another channel. Such mass-production was only possible with more rigorous processes guiding filming. 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. Its our favoite show. Some episodes Ive seen over three times each. This has been one of our few favourite programs; not only has it been informative, but it has been entertaining in the best-possible sense. I would be very happy, if it was revived. Please bring back time team I do really miss watch it please please bring it back. yes, I too have treasured every episode, and it has been the one programme of all channels that I never wanted to miss, even asking family to record it if I went on holiday, in the early years before I had a dvd m/c. In the country you have more sense of the spirit of a place. I am now watching past digs being repeated on More Four. well done on ending one of the best programs on tele. Her role, as a foil to Sir Tony, was complimentary, and never as an expert. Just a thought/ John. And key graphic purporting to show the significant shift in building alignments between two phases did not actually do that but simply repeated the original layout! Enough said. C4, please bring back the previous and successful formatting of Time Team. Shattered. Such speed was certainly not ideally suited to showcase all of the techniques available to modern archaeologists. I feel like i know all of the presenters personally they had that effect on people.I watched it evolve over the years and couldnt wait for each knew series. I agree with you . 03:12 EST 08 Feb 2012. Thank you time team, one and all, I constantly watch the reruns on the history channel here is oz. With its awkwardly embarassing reality programming and multitude of dream come true talent shows American television is NOTHING to emulate. hide. The above link is a petition which was put together by Lee Brady. Towards the end of its run an average episode would cost around 200,000 a budget more on the scale of a small drama show in the eyes of television insiders but over 20 years Channel 4 pumped 4 million directly into British archaeology. So apart from discovering the female cleavage (along with Kleenex tissues) looking for Saxon pottery designed to hold bovine waste, expanding your knowledge of Saxon tea services as well as teaching both Vivian Westwood and Tony & Guy a thing or twowhat other skills have you learned since watching Time Team? Yes, Phil can still shift the muck but check out his work on lithics studies and you might change your opinion. 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. This is just swell. Perhaps the BBC could take over where Channel 4 has failed and get back to grass roots like in series 4-6. Not any more. It is sad to read the mechanics of its demise and, worse, to see it played out on screen. (now part of English Heritage) in 1985, and is now head of its Landscape Investigation Team based in York, England. There are some of us who actually enjoy watching interesting, factual, historic programs. I am one of the over 40s over 60 in fact. I am very sorry to see it go. That way we still get our fix when we want to remind ourselves how good this series was. I sincerely hope this will be remedied. Schooled in observational documentaries, Graham followed the digs as they evolved. I now live in Australia and love watching shows on my homeland. RESURRECT THE PAST! I love time team. Time to leave! I have just realised that time team is to be axed by c4. 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. Oh dear what a shame as its such a great program especially with Phil & ALL the team.I think their sense of humour is almost worth a show on its own.Anyway a big thank you for many interesting hours as a an armchair archeologist. He has since appeared in over two hundred episodes. Strata indeed! Just started to watch the latest series on C4, very very sad to be losing it soon. I have watched time team since episode one and I am gutted . 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. Very disappointing. If ch4 wanted to save money why not repeat them from programme 1 . Arrr! RIP Time Team. Time Team! I think weve brought it into the forefront of peoples attention. Im the guy who set it up, iv got the page on Facebook, Twitter and the main website that i run. There was a youthful energy to them back them, which was part of the attraction. Thank goodness there is a myriad of viewers who appreciate the achievement of Time Team. Channel Four seem to be missing a trick that gthe BBC would have undoubtedly have profited from by issuing DVDs of the most important digs over the years. It all got too big, too ambitious. 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