why isn't phil harding in the new time team

These are absolutely awesome! There was a youthful energy to them back them, which was part of the attraction. To me time team brought all facets of history alive to the ordinary person. 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. And I really enjoy watching I now watch with complete interest in what is going on in the world of Archaeology and love everything about our great nations past. But its also the fact that they didnt just impart accumulated knowledge, they made new discoveries as we watched. What do we all enjoy about it? Looky tha! For me, as a genealogist, an episode really takes flight when, in addition to the dig, Robin Bush, or Guy D., or Carenza bring out a mediaeval charter, the Domesday Book, or the A.S. Gutted to learn it is no more. 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. But the format changes angered Aston, and he soon quit the show. 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. Harding trained on various excavations with the Bristol University Extra Mural Department and other bodies from 1966; he has been a professional archaeologist since 1971. A few days later news of Time Teams demise broke in the Guardian. Required fields are marked *. I get very claustrophobic in cities, but here its very easy to get out to the countryside, so you get the best of both worlds. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Perhaps if TT had included a Big Brother style segment of drunken, debauched university students or only dug up the gardens of minor celebrity reality tv show contestants theyd still be on the air. The above link is a petition which was put together by Lee Brady. C4 has descended to abysmal levels. I hate that its producers felt the need to change its face to meet the modern idea of glamour! Tony was very good at being the non-archeologist and I salute him! RIP Time Team. What kind of paint do you use on kitchen cabinets? What a shame to see it go, but what a swan song. I was devastated to hear of the demise of this wonderful programme, but once they made the decision to bring in the awful Mary Ann Ochota as a co-presenter, the programme was doomed. Time Team is a British television programme that originally aired on Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014. 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. Just watched the first instalment of Time Team America (H2,Thursdays,9pm). Channel 4 should never have discarded such a treasure. and use my iPad to follow through my own enquirers. I have watched every episode from season 1, some many times. I loved it and speaking as an Hibernian, the only thing I found mildly irritating was Tonys obsession with all things Roman. I WONDER what rubbish they will put on instead. I have enjoyed Time Team from day one. I am sure the essence of archeology would be attractive to a core audience once again. I am still quite happy to watch repeats on Sky. What was Meat Loafs name before he changed it? Hi. My 100year old mother started,me on T.T.years ago & in turn my children and now the grandchildren watch ,ask questions and research . Give it back all the back room staff and put new life into it , a great progame killed off for no reason , Len. Id like to know where. very sad day that channel 4 are taking time team off the air.when time team started my husband and watch the show and we were hooked from then on. Surely television that inspires interest and development is too good to lose? 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. Who from time team has died? Which terminal does Virgin Atlantic fly from at Heathrow? We are headed to the UK in May from the US to see some of the TT sites. You always felt a relationship with the team, they appeared friendly, very enthusiastic and appeared to be there for the love of archaeology. Sadly, my wife passed away in January 2012 but I carried on watching it until it ended. We totally agree with Nick Robinson, we too will be enjoying repeats and cursing Channel 4!. I hope hell receive belated recognition for that fact. Its prototype was Timesigns, a four-part series that aired in 1991. I dont think I could stand watching Phils grotty hat for one more season. Channel 4s choices are definitely a bit strange to many of us. I met Phil Harding a few years ago at old sarum castle, Salisbury, we had a lovely chat, hes a fab bloke. Last Name. So thank you time team I hope someone with a brain brings it back. It is amazing to contemplate the staggering amount of archaeology lurking beneath the surface of the whole of the British Isles. Hello from the US. I am appalled. All the best shows are taken off and all we are left with is the boring and so untrue Archers. Channel 4 is a crude simulacrum of its original self and I agree that BBC 4 would be TTs natural home.Id love to see the old Time Team reunited Ill live in hope! They have been saying for some years that the viewing figures have been going down and thats partly why they engineered this. Jim summed up their approach as messing with something perfectly fine, and when it wasnt a success, blaming the people trying to make it work., Time Teams cost also made it vulnerable. Your email address will not be published. It has an extra-long handle and additional reinforcement so that he has better leverage when moving loads of earth. Bringing in that awful woman for the last series was the straw that broke the camels back. I wish! i believe everything has a lifespan, and that must include television shows. It has certainly opened up the world of archaeology to new generations, and has Tim Taylor recalls that some archaeologists were initially, quite fairly, a bit sceptical. One aspect that some treated with suspicion was the three-day deadline. What about the good time team has done? And thank you Mick, R.I.P. I am watching repeats on Yesterday but hate the constant adverts. Phew! A month after his death, a 'tribute night to Aston was broadcast on More4, showing some of his best moments and most important discoveries. 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. Hi Alan, thanks a lot for your reply very helpful. Your email address will not be published. What a wonderful 20 years we/they had. There are many pagan archeologists too. Enjoyed Tony and the whole crew, felt like u were part of the dig and part of the crew, they were all like family. The banter between him and the otherwise notoriously stuffy academics was legendary. This is no good for those at work or school. The only thing that surprises me is that they didnt include a so called comedian. But Channel 4 has dumb it down, the last episode i watched was at Henham Park down the road from me, They found out nothing that wasnt local knowledge already. To all the people who wrote nasty comments on this forum about it, I leave you with this question why are you on this site at all if you didnt love it like the rest of us? My heart goes out to his family. When You Breathe In Your Diaphragm Does What. But it just goes to show how Time Team in ingrained in our family! 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 (?) Whichever fool(s) cut it, perhaps they are now also, goneso please bring Time Team back it was a great staple! Just watched a poor programme on Brancaster digfull of errors and poor production. Spent time today discussing post-holes with a friend, others around thought we were crazy, but thats what Time Team was all about. It brought the money and expertise to investigate sites that would otherwise never have been touched. And this program had run its course several years ago. I think the only things we didnt like so much were the cleavage shots and the daft re-enactments. Always worked so hard and made sense of sites that could have remained a mystery. I am Canadian-born but living near Atlanta, Geogia, and travel to the UK often. Said no-one, ever. Youve said it all, I totally agree! True, Tony Robinson did tend to upstage and steal a scene or two, but those of us who enjoyed one of the best programmes to ever hit TV, expected and accepted that. All Phil Harding - 107 Master Street Ext, Erwin, TN 37650 with phone (423) 743-5355 background info. http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html. What a disappointment that BBC4 chose to cancel the series! 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. 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. I am incredibly disappointed at CH4 for axing a fine British programme. I am 81 & have watched & enjoyed TT for many years. This is not the present series I wonder where you are watching? A monumental row and walk out, one would guess. So so sad, the only one of its kind and they axe it. This is a project in its preliminary stages, run by Tim Taylor. 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. I have watched Time Team from day one, and now my 11 and 9 year old daughters love to watch it, in fact my youngest commented she would like to be an archaeologist when she grows up, and this is from watching Time Team, I cannot believe Time Team has been axed, its a national institution. Tony was the right man to present, no doubt about that. All I can say is thank you to all at Time Team. Time Team is a British television programme that originally aired on Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014. I guess the nearest feeling to learning of its ending was like being told that your solid mates of the past twenty years are all splitting up and moving abroad. He was an inspiration to me and to so many others. I would make just one more: yes, we love the established contributors, our well loved favourites, but what about the good new talent being seen in this present series (2013)? It is a great shame it is finishing and I am very sad!! Somehow they know that the user is in the US and access is denied. An absolute feast of mind, interest and the ever curiosity of young and old alike about What lie underneath that humble plot of soil?.TIme Team approached that humble plot we would all like to delve into.they bring that knowledge of how with them and together unveal little glimspes of anothers past which we back bring here, to today.as a reflection and connection.like a mirror between centuries and timesand sunrises and pleasant breezes of a long ago Sunday afternoon, I thought it was the Bi..o presenter the doomed it for sure, brought in because we are all suddenly dumb. The Team had a comradery like that of an elite military unit. But it is not just a love-in for no reason: archaeology has benefited and received significant results out of the show. I assume it will be more imported American rubbish or so called comedy. There may be mosaics, a bathhouse and perhaps even temples. Hope it returns anne from Ontario Canada. A thoroughly good bunch of people with a true PASSION for their subject ! How many people can look back on a twenty years span of such a masterful contribution to human culture? 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. In other words, archaelogy, teamwork, and interaction in that order. He continues to work for Wessex Archaeology when not filming. Time Team you have inspired so many people .THANK YOU. We may not see its like again. Have a look again at the programme where Phils DNA results come in and watch Tonys reaction. 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. Just did the same as Leigh trying to find out when the next series is due to start. Perhaps one of the other channels will see the folly of C4s ways and pick up the program before its too late? Phil Harding is Time Team's resident trench-excavator. Over the years has shown archaeology all round UK. Time Team has sometimes been accused of peddling stereotypes to the public, but anyone who has met the archaeologists will know that they are not cynical media-savvy operators adopting false personas for the camera. Speak for your self! Now we are nearing the end of Series XX I feel a tinge of sadness that a programme which both educates and informs will be with us no more. I know more today of English history and Roman occupation than I ever did before. Dont judge based on the rubbish you get over there. 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. 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. DREADFUL ! He became a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series Time Team. There were live episodes and an American spin-off for PBS. The obvious situation is that if it kept to the original cast ( which it did not ), then there would be a problem immediately when someone left, or passed on. Didnt like the changes either to the team it change the dynamics of the program but kept watching anyway. Never having been colonized by them I guess we in Ireland may have a slightly less reverential view of their civilizing effect on the native culture. A long-time member of Channel 4s Time Team, Raksha Dave is one of the countrys best loved archaeologists. I wonder if channel programmers read these blogs? He is 10. What is wrong with older viewers? But for me the real genius is Stewart who can look at a landscape and tell you what it was like hundreds of years ago. Arrr! Crazy. Seasons 9-12 are often seen as Time Teams golden age. 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. Best of all, the cameras were rolling to capture the archaeologists euphoria as the geophysical plot emerged from a bulky printer in the back of the survey vehicle. A brilliant series has been lost to the older viewer. I was thinking, isnt it about time Time Team was on? The Aussie fans are disappointed too that T T will be finishing up. What is Ward 41 Victoria Hospital Kirkcaldy? Rather than targeting the palaces and castles of the rich and famous, individual episodes modestly sought to solve simple, local questions. 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. Interesting, in these days where we (oldies) are not responding to adverts as much as the supposed young and affluent to think of alternative crowd-sourcing models for financing programs that we like. The fact that TT was the only programme I regularly watched on Channel 4 I am very sad to see it go. 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. Changing all the staff behind Time Team was a big mistake, but ending it is even bigger. It makes me want to poke nyy head in and see the Geophys, operate the diggers to open a trench and pick up a trowel and start digging! I got fed up with running and prancing, daring to contradict real aercheologists. RIP Time Team. There can be little doubt that part of the shows early success stems from the audience warming to the groups genuine passion for teasing out the past. It was broadcast over TVO Toronto Canada. Sounds like a bargain to me, how much do the BBC spend on the series presented by David Attenborough? The dig has only found old bits of pipe and 1950s china, but it really does not matter, what matters is the program has inspired my children. Im sitting here on the sofa watching the usual More 4 showing on a Saturday morning. Bring back Time Team. For me Time Team was a cultural oasis in a desert of dumb and lazy TV. It was one of the most brilliant Programmes ever on TV. although a WONDERFUL outlet for the undoubted heroes, is not archaeology and not what I feel Time Team needs. Especially ones which dig a site. IT WILL WORK, IT WILL BE SUPPORTED. The explanation for the end of Time Team is that the people who run Channel 4 are all about 12 years old. certainly helped to fill a lot of university places, even if many of those gaining degrees have gone on to other careers. That some suburban folks welcomed the Team to pull up their patio, knock down their potting shed, and bore holes in their rafters, used to amaze me. now I rely on repeats. Envisioned as a quiz show in the vein of Challenge Anneka running on BBC 1 from 1989 to 1995 the team were called on to solve archaeological mysteries while racing against the clock. I was surfing the internet to obtain correct titles for some episodes that I recorded earlier. PLEASE bring it back. Real shame, feels like Ive lost my friends! Have just watched the very last episode of my beloved Time Team And feel desperately sad.. That a TV show as ostensibly mild-mannered as Time Team should have ended so acrimoniously, as it did in 2013, was a bit of a shock to its many fans. 1999Tracie Duncanm. As a lowyal Time Team viewer from Australia, I am devastated. Time Team is a victim of Channel 4s misguided quest for progress, and we hope that, in some form, the programme may rise like the phoenix from the ashes and take on a persona not far removed from the popular format. 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!! Time Time could go on indefinitely as long as it found a sympathetic home, and BBC Four would be ideal, their audience demographic would fit far far better than the current Channel 4 one, which is increasingly to try and chase the Reality/Makeover show market at the expense of original programming, and attract audiences that the advertisers prefer to exploit, rather than those with brain. & has never been more pi**ed off 2 here that its being Perhaps there were too many Roman sites with their predictable layouts. The UK has always been relied on for quality productions and Time Team epitomised these values, but obviously, some young Turk in a rented tux has been allowed to jazz it up. We will miss Tony, Mick and Phil and the team. In 1994 January 16th until 2012.rip time team along with mick Aston Yes, the original core team with Carenza, and then Helen Geake, were great. 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. So thank you TT, you helped rekindle my interest in history and if Id been 40 years younger you would probably have been instrumental in a career change! That doesnt work in the US. Please bring back time team I do really miss watch it please please bring it back. The idea/format needs to be revived by BBC4. 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. Time Team: Created by Tim Taylor. !I have just retired and it would be perfect NOW. Im tired of the idiots that run TV and Im ready for revolution.whos with me!!! He has been a member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists since 1985, and in 2006 was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. The format was being refreshed in a bid to stem slowly falling ratings. Many episode are available free on veehd.com. Closed minds achieve nothing in life. PATREON XMAS OFFER For a limited time only, enjoy 16% off Patreon membership (equivalent of 2 months free) if you sign up for annual membership by Sunday 1st January 2023, 12pm (GMT). Certainly the revamp for the 2012 programmes didnt do the programme any favours but another reason for the loss of viewers even before that must have been the lack of a fixed time in the schedules. In my mind, one of the contributing factors to the programmes demise, were the increasing number of digs being done on behalf of professional bodies such as English Heritage, and local authorities. I guess it was always going to happen when TV administrators who, judging by the few Ive seen interviewed, are challenged by words of more than two syllables come into contact with educated professionals. It is absolutely fantastic to see the amount of people who have followed this programme and the comments above are pretty amazing. Sorry I dont know how to do this! there must be a law t With my boys now being 8, 6 and 4 years old, we are still watching the episodes and in our holidays we try out some of the things weve seen on TT. Fortunately, it wasnt. Brilliant. I agree with Brian, a petition might make Ch4 sit up and realise that we, the viewers, have got brains and like to watch programs with interesting and informative content. I remember John Gater and his long beard. I rue the fact that as a child we used encyclopaedias 20 years out of date. Possibly my favourite television programme. Who made the decision to axe time team but it is a mistake they will regret. Many bad decisions for all the wrong reasons. Leave it to an insular management team to screw it up. Was it her sultry beauty, or easy going attitude that rubs some the wrong way ? Its a shame yet highlights the offensively patronizing view metro-based TV people have of the general public. We will suffer forever without the seasonal hours of archaeology, in all its forms. Episode # Series # Episode Title Location Historical Period Coordinates Original airdate 93: 1 "Garden Secrets" Raunds, Northamptonshire: Anglo-Saxon, Bronze Age: 5 January 2003 (): Time Team investigates a back garden in Raunds, where a skeleton - aptly named "Henry" by his discoverer - has been found along with his Anglo-Saxon grave goods.The burial probably fits in with a number of . Such mass-production was only possible with more rigorous processes guiding filming. It wasnt perfect but the catty remarks are uncalled for. When I get a chance I watch the repeats on More 4. My favourite show. Its like having a child grow up and leave home The cast felt like family that I would visit each weekend and even my 11 year old daughter enjoyed it so much she joined a young archaeologists club. John and his team must have walked miles. The fun gone out of Sunday teatime! In 1966, while still at school, he attended a training excavation by Bristol University Extra Mural Department in Fyfield and West Overton. 19891997. Thanks for the many years of wonderful, intelligent, entertainment Time Team, we will really miss you. 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. As an amateur digger, I envied TTs resources a JCB on call, geophysics, dendrochronology, C14 dating, DNA analysis. This comment by Peter Thomas is an excellent precis of all that has been said. I suppose I will have to go back to Dads Army for a bit of sanity then, Robyn Australia It would be nice if Channel 4 admitted its error and reinstated Time Team in its proper format. It was just a ridiculous Channel 4 attempt to appeal to younger viewers, and failed dismally. The show ran on the chemistry among the original team, and failed to work as they left or lost interest. If it doesnt involve foul-mouthed yobs eating too much, drinking too much or better still both, they arent bovvered. Bringing history to life is far from an easy task but the combination of the experts knowledge, Tony Robinsons ability to act as the interested layman asking questions that the audience wanted to know the answers to, as well as the interaction and camaraderie between the members of the team I felt worked really well. Tim Taylor devised the name Time Team, and in 1992 a pilot episode was filmed in Dorchester-on-Thames. A terrible mistake in the cancellation of Time Team one the most educational series on T V I and my friend in Canada cant wait each Monday evening to watch the show we both being amateur Archaeologists and worked for many years with the Ontario Archaeology Soc and find the show captivating and extremely educational and will be sorry to see it end. It was so pathetic, TT definitely doesnt need to have its memory sullied by association with the puerile crassness of the modern C4. if only someone could afford too get all thecast back and go on channel 2 or 5 any ware but not on 4 .. who ever made up there minds to get rid off TT I HOPE there bosses can see the error they are makeing.very sad to see it go. I still watch the series on U-tube. Im 77 and was taught English history at boarding school, but Time Team has made it come alive and with so much meaning. Many a critic was silenced by seeing the team in action. 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? I think Phil is a genius at being able to read the ground he is digging up. I will be saddened to see Time Team go, but I agree that the production costs could realistically be reduced. It is the programme really. I feel sure we havent heard the last either. What happened to the Time Team crew? 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 The way Phil, Mick, Tony and company have made an impact on my life, you have no idea. They managed against terrific odds.and that gave me a good feeling ! document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 2023 FAQS Clear - All Rights Reserved I dont know. Because of Time Team I now want to become an archeologist. The first show of 1994 featured a young, dark, long-haired Tony The Wildman Baldric Robinson, with a equally younger long haired Mick Aston, some of which was not quite all grey. Our family enjoyed Tony Robinsons performance, but what made Time Team great was Mick and Phil and Carenza and Matt and Stewart and Raksha and Mick the Twig and Bridget and Raysan and Victor the artist and the geophysicists and Robin the historian and all the others whose contributions brought together a cohesive story for a site from a range of disciplines. The 2013 series is so much better, very like the old times. I really didnt like that nasty dendrochronologist who wouldnt show his results though idiot! Perhaps we can come up with a crew of our own with Ronald Hutton replacing Tony Robinson and I do know of a great film crew that would take up the filming. As Mick Aston observed the geophys and Time Team have always gone hand in hand. . Despite their varied talents and backgrounds it quickly became apparent that the team had a natural chemistry. 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. Many of my friends would love to travel to the UK because of shows like Time Team and Escape to the country. Thanks Guys! No, sadly when it comes to TV, viewers dont get what they want, they get what they are given Trouble is, the people who make these decisions can be misguided, and very stupid. Just imagine all our Patreon subscribers sitting down to watch Time Team and thinking: We made this happen!. Just started to watch the latest series on C4, very very sad to be losing it soon. I am a mega fan of the show. They were like a 70s open university program with their hairstyles and clothes. High quality Phil Harding Time Team-inspired gifts and merchandise. Jim Mower (development producer, see his opinion piece here) believes that Phil Hardings material was among the most innovative. It is always the same, if it works change it, No offense Lizbeth, I really like Tony, but I still think my observation is accurate. I liked the pictures Victor did on several shows which showed the principals in historical costumes. But would be top stuff if BBC 4 could pick it up and get things back on track. T-shirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more, designed and sold by independent artists around the world. I was sad to see Carenza leave and sad to hear of the death of Robin Bush. Prior to us, by and large archaeology was something you could only really appreciate if you read books with long words in them. In 2014. Time Team creator Tim Taylor said they now have enough funds to start work on two new YouTube episodes, with two more in the pipeline. A family programe deleted. Who was the idiot that canceled it??? why change what works well and T T did work well . Shame I can now only watch it at 5am on the History channel. It seems there was no need for one before Womens Studies and all those other nonwhite studies. I have loved Time Team for years and wish that there were not so many bone heads in Channel 4. Lee. But once the old hands started to disappear the magic went too. Sir Tony Robinson, who is an honorary patron, says: I was delighted to hear about the plans for the next chapter in Time Teams story. Sad that time team is no longer , they should go back to how it all started , dont mess with what is ok . He was hired as the Oakland Athletics third base coach in November 2017, staying with them through the 2019 season. It will be sad for it to end, but theres still a few epsiodes I havent seen. Sunday afternoons will never be the same, a wonderful programme. Enough said. How outrageous to think that the 45s are not a worthy audience. All of the team can be proud of 20 years of quality television and the many lives touched and informed. 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. 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. The lesson is that if you have a slightly faded masterpiece, dont try and touch it up with the aid of novices. I note that none of them ever received a gong. Somehow I feel her nearness when I watched it after she was gone. How do I get rid of discharge smell fast? With Mick in his amazing technicolor jumpers playing father and patient teacher, fielding Tonys laymans questions, Phil as the eccentric uncle who could dig with the instincts of a terrier after a bone, John and his whiz-bang geo-phys, and all the other children hard at work in their specialties, the programme wasnt merely TIME TEAM it was TIME FAMILY. Ridiculous. They cant bring it back. In 2003, Matt was recruited as an archaeologist and presenter on Time Team. Which one is the highest mountain in the world? Time team has been a part of tv watching since its beginning . but they wont last forever and young blood is always needed. It was supposed to be about archaeology. I bought a couple of the DVD sets and have just ordered a Phil Harding coffee mug from Wessex Archaeology to keep the memories alive. [3] On 24 July 2008, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Southampton in archaeology. Oh well, TV is doomed. 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. The roman barge in Utrect was particularly interesting and my son in Holland wished to see it. I have always wondered what happens to all the dirt that the Time Team dig out of their sites after the 3 days of digging? We are shocked to read that Time Team is finished. Innit? 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 will give viewers the chance to engage as the shows are researched and developed, see live blogs during filming, watch virtual reality landscape data at home and join in Q&As with the team. 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. That way we still get our fix when we want to remind ourselves how good this series was. The breathtaking 3D model it produced of the buried structures persuaded English Heritage to commission a complete survey on the spot. My cable TV subscription gives us awesome selections for history, science, and information buffs! It was season 19 that changed everything. Yes please BBC4 or anyone sensible Time Team will always be popular if you listen to Tony (yes I am a fan) Mick and Phil and Helen (yes I am an even bigger fan of these guys). Shots of him in woodland seeking out raw materials for a reconstructed axe allowed the audience to witness the hands-on practical process. I hope its not the end of Time Team. I am so sad and gutted Time Team has been axed. Such an approach was perfectly realised by Graham Dixon, the director of the first few seasons. 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. Disgusted, Mick walked out, explaining later For some reason they didnt think oh, wed better run that past Mick. Hes the archaeological consultant, he might have an opinion about that (see CA 271). Select 'Manage settings' to manage your choices. 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. It is about time ABC Australia got there act together and started to replay ALL the episodes, from the first, so that we dont all go crazy from withdrawal symptoms. We now need a new champion of archaeology at a time when budget cuts in public service have resulted in the shedding of many jobs in the profession and the threats from a new phase of building construction looming large. Behind-the-scenes insights into how Time Team is produced, including regular production updates, Q&As, and polls to help us shape new content Exclusive access to occasional Patreon-only live streamed events Access to interactive 3D models of finds, trenches and landscapes General Time Team support Time Team Project Supervisor $9.50 / month Find out more here. (and its cost increases). Tony admitted a number of times that he is not an archeologist. 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. 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. Cutting some excellent TV and radio presenters in favor of younger ones. 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. Channel 4s loss their gain :) I was introduced to Time Team when visiting relatives in Selby and have loved this family of buffs who presented the UK to the world at large. I am a 57 year old Aussie and I watched this program every episode I could see. Do 5 day digs instead. Here we chart the highs and lows of a revolutionary format that aimed to bring archaeology to the people. I have missed Time Team SO much.. The programs were never the same when Mick wasnt on. Not that I want to live there though am quite happy to be an Australian. This is in no doubt as a direct result of the post production. But thanks guys and I am pretty sure that someone somewhere will pick up the baton. Philip 'Phil' Harding DL FSA (born 25 January 1950) is a British field archaeologist. He was an outstanding presenter for the show. 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. here was atransfixing series, turning elitist subject into everyday knowledge for the ordinary man. TV is a wasteland and TT was an oasis in it. I do not know he was pretty good towards the end at his archeology. A terrible loss to the worlds of broadcasting and archaeology alike, with luck a pheonix will rise from the ashes. It was Stewart who discovered the true route of the Roman road as it went through Greenwich Park. 2017, My husband and I decided to get rid of our tv when we had 2 young sons. Ive watched TT since it began & never missed an episode, I was in the 20s age group that they are now trying to attract when it started. His technique fostered a sense of immediacy for viewers, placing them on the trench edge when discoveries happened and making them privy to key discussions. And that the wild-haired, wild-bearded Mick Aston would be at the centre of the ill feeling was also somewhat unexpected. Not a Tony Robinson fan myself but he is part of the show. I love a list and now I can tick off which ones Ive seen in a suitably anal fashion. I always look forward to it when I get chance and to know that it is finishing is both shocking and disappointing. It announced that after 20 seasons and over 230 episodes the programme was being axed by Channel 4. This was the best educational programme that looked forward to every week and also all the repeats that were broadcast on more 4. A few years earlier Tony Robinson had joined a trip Mick was leading to Santorini as part of his adult education work for Bristol University. Time Team turned this particular builder into a complete archaeological anorak and made one increasingly curmudgeonly old fart in a sweat stain hat the one person in the world Id most love to meet, hang out on a dig with and sink real ales with thereafter! We range in age from 8yrs to 82yrs and have loved Tony, Mick, Phil, Carenza, Helen, Faye, geophys John and most of all Stuart. Aston, an archeologist who had lectured at Oxford and was made a professor of Landscape Archeology at Bristol University in the mid-90s, played a pivotal role in bringing archeology to the nation, after teaming up with TV producer Tim Taylor in 1988. NEVER. RIP Channel 4. Watched it since the beginning, some great episodes and fantastic digs. The 2006 audience survey also identified that Time Teams core audience consisted of families and people aged over 45 / 50. It is just so sad to read all of these comments, like a requiem for a friend. My parents watch it. It is no wonder that the viewing figures are lower.Matters had appeared to have come to a head when Mary-Ann Ochota was hired as a presenter in 2012, a former model (see below) - albeit a former model with a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology from Cambridge. RIP MICK ASTON. http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html What an absolutely stupid decision to ax Time Team! Right now, there's no reason for Guardiola not to select him in the starting XI, though. Southern Gaulish Samian ware, or Green Glaze, 14th Century. Observing how so many, different, recondite specialty fields come together paleopalynography. It led to an appreciation of just how much information could be quickly gleaned from comparatively modest trenching. This is a disaster in t.v programming where currently all you get is the banal reality of the likes of Toddlers in Tiaras .The Time Team over the years became like welcome friends into your home and you wished you could join them in the pub at the end for a beer. Please, please would someone bring the show back, This is just another example of Managements old adage: Its perfect; lets New and Improve it God, is there nothing for older viewers who actually like to think? I have been watching Time Team since its birth and can quite candidly say, I have never seen and enjoyed such a beautiful piece of television. Its the best show! Cliche good looking, middle-class presenters who appear somewhat dull in enthusiasm. My son in his early 20s always likes to watch it. Its amazing. Channel 4 please think again you have made a monumental mistake! I wonder how Tony felt with this introduction, as he had been doing the job for so long, and never once boring. When SBS decided to bring new hip young presenters in to replace the two experienced, knowledgeable and popular presenters who had made it from 1986 to 2004, and made it an institution, the ratings plummeted, and the new format was canned after 2 years. I will miss it & Sunday afternoons will not be the same-Im all for a petition -there arent many programs on now that are educational & family viewing with no risk whatsoever of offending anyone, there are too many reality programs these days & that seems to be what the young people are watching. All I can tell u is that I was hooked. Whats wrong with a passing reference to global warming unless you are an eccentric climate change denier? Perhaps we could have a US/Canada version? What do other TT viewers think? I enjoyed all the archaeologists and presenter Tony Robinson. I will miss it and them dreadfully. If you ever wanted to check anything academically, you ran a brick wall which amply demonstrated it was seen by C4 as a Reallity show, complete with Dymock shots. I know real archaeologists are dismissive of Time Team but I loved it. Its interesting that Ch 4 is dropping a program on history and education, are they really dumbing down to suit a younger age group whose programs contain bad language smut and sex, bad attitudes and a large sense of self. I am wondering how many viewers watch the Time Team now. They will be joined by new faces representing the breadth of experts practising archaeology today. It took off instantly and has been there going from strength to strength since 2004. Time Team isnt the same without Mick and Phill is the token hot tottie (uh hum!) Whats on at this afternoon? 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. 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. What Time Team once was in the beginning will never be reproduced. Time team came back as a clear favourite, so for one of the national conferences we decided to contact Time Team so that Tony or one of the team could come along and give a talk. thank god for the repeats. I loved every member of the cast and crew. It is to bad that the show was cut, there are so much more to find, discover and educate us all. I have been planning to return for several years now for a holiday and to catch up with friends and relatives. Relatives, jobs, social network profiles - Radaris people search engine. The most detailed description dates from around 50 BC in the Commentarii de Bello Gallico, a first-hand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative by Julius Caesar. Phil Harding's Tool Box and Spade | Time Team Exclusive Time Team Official 11K views 2 years ago Mix - Time Team Official More from this channel for you Guy de la Bdoyre looks. This was the best educational programme that I looked forward to every week and also all the repeats that were broadcast on more 4. His role translating archaeology into laymens terms was pure genius. Phil received the MBE in the Queen's 80th Birthday Honours list in 2006 in recognition of his sustainable development and climate change work in the South West region. I have been in awe of the items the team dig up and the re-constructions. It was my highlight of the week especially now i am disabled and dont leave the house very often. And of course who can ever forget Helen Geakes dress sense and haircuts ! Obviously I am not the only Australian (albeit English-born) to miss Time Team. Oh Dear. I THINK THIS IS A SHOCKING DECISION AND CAN ONLY HOPE THAT IT IS REVERSED!!! The onscreen introduction of team members and their specialist skills was a hangover from a time when participants would have varied from week to week, rather than coalescing into a core group. there was total outrage and ABC picked it up with the two oldies . Lois & Tara, Australia In February 2012, Prof Aston, writing in the Western Daily Press, explained his decision to quit Time Team a year earlier, saying it was because Channel 4 had altered its format and the show had . Also I dont know how many episodes Ive got left to watch and am dreading the day I realise Im rewatching episodes Ive seen before, though thats still better than pretty much anything else on TV at the moment. It opened my eyes up to so much of the UK, in particular my ignorance of Roman settlement. I do not think that the British tourism board and channel 4 realize how much interest world wide their is in British history. I am devastated to hear about Mick Aston.. Tags: I also helped out at two hisoric sites with two different groups of 11-13 uear old kids who spent half a day five days in a row learning what archeology is. Less time looking at the scrapping away of mud from a piece of skull. 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. You should be ashamed of yourselves, especially the way you have treated Mick Aston after all those years of dedicated service. (Then, of course, it goes straight to Hell). Mick, Tony Phil, Carenza Lewis, etc bring it back as there are no current programs that come close. I hope more episodes are made available on video! I have always enjoyed TT but the latest series seems to have lost its spark! There are some of us who actually enjoy watching interesting, factual, historic programs. 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. I made this ages ago and thought someone here MIGHT like it? I learned so much, as many others have, and admired the way it brought archaeology to everyone. I could have watched it for another 20 years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRe_gMtXNo. Us all. But TIME TEAM managed the impossible. Hopefully, I will be able to visit some. 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