RIP Mick Aston At least we can watch past programmes on More 4 on on the On Demand. Totally agree. Do specials instead of a series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRe_gMtXNo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Time_Team_episodes, I Have Fallen In Love With Land Rover Freelander! Incidentally, Mr Harding, this flygirl will gladly buy you a pint, any day and would love to hear stories about years of pulling history out of the ground one piece, one bone, and one shard at a time. This biography article of a United Kingdom academic is a stub. I didnt always like the reenactments but it was interesting when they dealt with diet and medical issues. And now our children and grandchildren watch the programme but not for long now. The lesson is that if you have a slightly faded masterpiece, dont try and touch it up with the aid of novices. Less time looking at the scrapping away of mud from a piece of skull. Only a fool would get rid of an engaging program like TT. Buggering about with scheduling times has buggered many a decent tv series. I sincerely hope this will be remedied. 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. In between programmes, E4 these days uses short clips of things like hillwalking and narrow boats to ridicule the interests of old people. !I have just retired and it would be perfect NOW. swinging camera booms. time team has over the years discovered great things. I hope its not the end of Time Team. I watch any that come on now.. saw one yesterday about the digging our of the 2 world war planes in the bogs.. Time Team was the product (exclusively) of Channel 4 a commercial TV-only company that was created in the early 80s. As others have said, lets hope that the B.B.C. They were like a 70s open university program with their hairstyles and clothes. He is president of the Friends of Epiacum, also known as Whitley Castle, the Roman fort on the southern edge of Northumberland which he has surveyed and studied in depth. I enjoyed Time Team and I will miss it Carenza and the later Helen Geake were the highlights for me there was always a sense of tension when you heard a shout of Tony not knowing what find theyd unearthed. Maybe the BBC can resurrect this show. There was a youthful energy to them back them, which was part of the attraction. Somehow they know that the user is in the US and access is denied. or anyone with an IQ of 50 and below, or the attention span a bit longer than a small herring. It was my highlight of the week especially now i am disabled and dont leave the house very often. 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. I therefore conclude that the program is enjoyed by audiences of all ages. And anyone who does not like Tony Robinson probably doesnt like Rowan Atkinson either, probably has not a read book over 30 pages in decades, and probably believes the Big Bang was what happened in their bedroom last night.. Start a letter writing campaign to bring it back. , Cant we have Phil once a week digging a hole in a pub garden, please?xxxx. Poor. It is amazing to contemplate the staggering amount of archaeology lurking beneath the surface of the whole of the British Isles. Not that I want to live there though am quite happy to be an Australian. This once innovative and ground breaking channel has started to descent to almost ITV 1 depths of dumbing down in recent years, it certainly isnt the channel that Jeremy Isaccs created anymore. 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. sundays seem empty without my time team fix. That has gone now, so im going to just have to watch all the reruns on Discovery history ( and there are quite a few of them) and be happy. Sounds as though short sighted suits are at work. Lytham St Annes. 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. Her role, as a foil to Sir Tony, was complimentary, and never as an expert. One of our students is well into his 70s, hes been in the field with us both on our formal field school and in a volunteering capacity. I have watched TT for the last 20 years from my mid 20s. I was especially interested in the programme on Looe Island chapel as my grandparents once owned Looe Island and I had been there and walked over the chapel remains. We have it so easy in this day and age to compare to others in the past and we so loved it when Tony came to Australia and did some shows about our ancestral heritage,we all walk past so much and never notice whats in front of us,we miss so much rich knowledge right under our feet. VALE Time Team, a wonderful Viking/ Roman pyre is burning and we are drinking ourselves to oblivion. CHANNEL 4 you just do not know what you have done ! I never saw any of these shows until a week ago when I stumbled over them on youtube. . 1951. One of the best programs EVER. 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. if you can i would a reply.also HELEN IS ALSO VERY GOOD. I live in Minnesota and am anxious to explore sites of the indigenous people who lived and continue to live here. Please BBC take this show under your wings ! I remember John Gater and his long beard. However, they added: Intelligence, natural curiosity and a passion for archaeology is a must.. Time Team first appeared on British television in early 1994, lasting two whole decades until it was cancelled in 2014. . Such speed was certainly not ideally suited to showcase all of the techniques available to modern archaeologists. Carenza Lewis, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake and geophys genius John Gater will all be returning and are excited about the new sites. 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. It has certainly opened up the world of archaeology to new generations, and has Thanks for the many years of wonderful, intelligent, entertainment Time Team, we will really miss you. The 2006 audience survey also identified that Time Teams core audience consisted of families and people aged over 45 / 50. To an incredible all round team we thank you and to Phil damn we will miss you! I loved watching time team I want it to come back on the tv I miss watching it on Sunday afternoon. I have four sons we have been Time Team fans for years. I will miss Mick and Phil and Tony. The enthusiasm shown by the crews, the information, the chance to get a flavour of what made our country and the historical influences in each area. 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. This is no good for those at work or school. T.T. My absolute favorite TV program! and use my iPad to follow through my own enquirers. The attempted dumbing down of Time Team smacks of dim executives meeting to dish corporate cliches out to one another. The format changed and little was really seen of the dig. and the entire bunch breathed fresh life into the sometimes boring subject of Archaeology. Back in the olden days(late 70s) I was accused of being an anglophile by the University of New Mexico professor who was trying to recruit me, an English Major, into his new American Studies department. look forward to some more american rubbish or more twits in big brother type of rubbish. In 2005, Carenza Lewis left to pursue other interests. The easy familiarity between the people on the programs has been such a contrast to the egos and prima donna attitudes you see in so many other programs. You only have to look at the demographic to see that a model was not going to be an asset to TT. His Uncle, my brother, has to dig up a dig with him when he comes on holiday and he is in there like a professional. Perhaps we could have a US/Canada version? I cannot believe that there will be no more Time Team, I hope the idiots at channel 4 read this site. Shame I can now only watch it at 5am on the History channel. I am still watching episodes on Yesterday that Id somehow missed. Well it seems the bean counters got their way. Im writing this having just had my daily lunchtime fix of a Tiime Team repeat on More 4. Time Team: Created by Tim Taylor. Shame on Chanel 4! (a bit of eye candy maybe if your of that age) Sad to see this very good program going down the pan. Instead John Gater, the programmes geophys wizard (see CA 252), surveyed the field. WHY? My wife was not well for several years & she found Time Team to be one of the few programs worth watching. Yes, it became a bit formulaic probably inevitable when dullard TV producers are involved. Carenza Lewis, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake and geophys genius John Gater will all be returning and are excited about the new sites. Spoilt in the end by Fixing something that want bust. xx. 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. There may be mosaics, a bathhouse and perhaps even temples. In this months Science Notes, we will explore the evidence for this hypothesis, and examine how violence-related injuries are distinguished in archaeological human remains. I am now watching past digs being repeated on More Four. Best wishes, good luck and Gods speed to the lot of you! He has worked on a number of archaeological sites in Britain and abroad. The past shows took it for granted that the viewers were intelligent and did not need someone (other than Tony I love him) to ask questions in his humorous fashion. Surely television that inspires interest and development is too good to lose? If Tim Taylor or anyone at Channel 4 ever got the itch in their pants to dig it all up again (pun intended) it would be so awesome. A family programe deleted. I was digging my veg patch yesterday and I found a napped piece of flint. Great news that it is ending now we can have even more programs about yobs drinking abroad, crappy makeovers, the life of white van drivers and buying houses that cost 250,000 or more. 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. I love time team. I am looking forward to the Village Dig series, when it eventually comes to the small screen. Just discovered that this had been axed. Rip, time team. Just did the same as Leigh trying to find out when the next series is due to start. I always made sure be there watching when it was on. With Phil Harding also on board, three members of the future Time Team core were in place. A former academic at Bristol and Oxford universities, he has worked tirelessly to bring archaeology to a wider audience. It must have been amazingly hard to pull together the locations, permits, and logistics, add the art, historical research, music and local involvement, let alone process the dig sites. The whole catering & accommodation aspect could have been trimmed, without loss of such a wonderful program. Yes, Upton Castle was a bit of a mess in terms of style, but it held our interest. I have watched Time Team over the years. 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. Southern Gaulish Samian ware, or Green Glaze, 14th Century. Observing how so many, different, recondite specialty fields come together paleopalynography. 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 sign fans: Because of Time Team I now want to become an archeologist. Rest in peace, Mick, you added more to peoples lives than you probably ever realised. 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. 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. 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 say dont be too quick to make a stupid decision. Gutted to learn it is no more. I found it much preferable to the Planet Earth shows of David Attenbrough. Self - Downpatrick, County Down (1998) . The regular team also included: [6] Stewart Ainsworth, landscape investigator; John Gater and Chris Gaffney, archaeological geophysicists; Henry Chapman, surveyor; and Victor Ambrus, illustrator . There is more than enough rubbish shown on tv so why axe a good item that entertains, explains and raises more questions. All the best shows are taken off and all we are left with is the boring and so untrue Archers. To anyone who loves the Sunday afternoon history fix as much as I do PLEASE sign! Mick Aston was a remarkable person intelligent and well informed but still able to get complicated concepts across in an way that was accessible to all. Yes, speak for yourself! Channel 4 has lost one viewer it wont get back. 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. I first came across it a few years back while channel surfing Hey I know him thats Baldrick. 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). Log in or sign up to leave a comment. The 2013 series is so much better, very like the old times. My second eldest is 18, and we only watch one program together as our interests are so different (that would be Time Team). (especially phil, that crazy bloke,lol).I hope channel 4 regret the decision to axe the show. 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. What a great detective. It was a perfunctory end for a television institution that, over two decades, made British archaeology more accessible and popular than ever. Very sad to hear Time Team is ending. My dad worked for the National Park Service and I was born quite near Chaco Canyon[(a universally important archeological site) in a Navajo mission(Christian) hospital]. YOU HAVE JUST NOT THOUGHT THIS THROUGH! The only thing that surprises me is that they didnt include a so called comedian. I agree entirely. However over the years TT seem to have worked on sites that have been known about for a long time, but have remained unexplored for whatever reason. There is a focus on interesting, previously discovered, artefacts, while pipe music lends an almost mystical air to proceedings. why change what works well and T T did work well . 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. I think he was a lovely man SO SAD ! Shots of him in woodland seeking out raw materials for a reconstructed axe allowed the audience to witness the hands-on practical process. 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! John has kept on top of technical advances, and the results of his survey of Brancaster Roman fort provide one of the outstanding moments in the forthcoming season 20. Take up the mantel!! Time Team To Be Reinstated! We didnt do much history at school and we have all learned so much from TT. 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. Now, many dislike Tony as he is renowned to be a woke leftist with an attitude, but as a presenter, I thought he did magnificently well. 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. He joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (now part of English Heritage) in 1985, and is now head of its Landscape Investigation Team based in York, England. He was affectionately known as Time Team's "lumps and bumps" man, working with the team alongside his day job, travelling the country surveying, recording and investigating archaeological sites. 20+ years is a remarkable feat for a television program, and this isnt Dr. Who either. 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. Please bring Time Team back. Rather than targeting the palaces and castles of the rich and famous, individual episodes modestly sought to solve simple, local questions. ! In other words, archaelogy, teamwork, and interaction in that order. Tony, Mick,and Phil will be missed. 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. Thanks to you all. thank god for the repeats. Now everyone knows the word geophys. 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. He worked for several commercial units including Oxford Archaeology and MoLAS (as was), until he started a career at L-P Archaeology. Hi Alan, thanks a lot for your reply very helpful. For those too grief stricken to cope right now, subscribe to the youtube video blog of Dig Village. ! My idea of heaven, sitting in pub day 1, discussing what has/has not been found, what may/may not be found, Phil looking for flint, Mick not wanting Roman, Carenza keeping the peace, John anxious about the ploughed geophys, Tony querying the tentative theories, and Stuart saying its the wrong place! I wish I could study with Mick Ashton. Just a thought/ John. TT is very fun to watch after nearly 30 years from the first episodes; watching the GeoPhysics change from season to season (week to week for me as I binge) is great for this engineer. I have offten mention to my husband, I wonder what the site look like after the the TT have left. Is there any posibility of obtaining a copy of this and the program on the barge in the river Rhine. With its awkwardly embarassing reality programming and multitude of dream come true talent shows American television is NOTHING to emulate. (But not, ever, I would agree, grinning totty!) It was responsible for me going on a dig and having a great time. 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. if there is a petition please let me know.i would like to put our names down. What about the number of times they were wrong? 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. I have watched Time Team since day one, and until the last two or three series have always enjoyed it. The producers screwed it with the inevitable dumbing down and trying to make it a show for the 20 to 30 year olds. An audience study in 2006 indicated that 20 million people watched at least one show that year. i never knew the show existed until last year 2021. any chance for reunions and a chance to interact as like conventions do here in the usa? 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!) The fact that TT was the only programme I regularly watched on Channel 4 I am very sad to see it go. Great memories sadly missed. i have seen every episode of time team and ive never seen him mention anything like that other than one time, so you are a complete moron and need to look up what the word patronize means since i am now patronizing you. Oh! 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. In addition, people are re-discovering the magic and history of their local areas and the wellbeing that can be derived from activities like archaeology. I have enjoyed Tony Robinsons commentaries. 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