Come on BBC . He has since appeared in over two hundred episodes. Thank you to everyone who made this such a wonderful programme. It seems there was no need for one before Womens Studies and all those other nonwhite studies. Lets hope that somebody in control is also a fan and a compromise can be reached. Totally gutted Time Team is going. Totally agree. You are going to be missed more than most of us realise. If Id been younger when the programme first started I would have loved to have studied archaeology to work in such a fascinating area, I had little knowledge of or interest in archaeology before. http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/time-team-should-continue-on-tv.html 2012 was a very low point and i half expected it to end right then. The utterly ridiculous Dig by Wire (S19E01) would have put me off permanently had it been the first episode I had seen (What, helicopters dont work on Gateholm?). Its a shame yet highlights the offensively patronizing view metro-based TV people have of the general public. 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. By the summer of 2012 Channel 4 no longer wanted old Time Team. BBCs own channels will have BBC prefixing the number and anything not by the BBC will obviously by without this prefix. 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. Maybe after all these replies BBC4 may approach the original team !!! The ABC in Australia invariably saw fit to show very, very few episodes of Time Team, although numerous repeats were televised, and like a good book, they were enjoyed by a public that is hungry for family value in TV productions. The breakthrough came when Timesigns proved an unexpected hit. Admittedly, in the last year or so I have found myself increasingly disinterested in the programme. As of 2010 Ainsworth has been affiliated with the History and Archaeology department at the University of Chester, where he is a visiting professor. 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. 2017, My husband and I decided to get rid of our tv when we had 2 young sons. You were apparently watching a different show than we were. Most of what I feel about the demise of TT has already been said here. Were currently watching the last episodes, with the delightfully enthusiastic Francis Pryor, on ABC TV in Melbourne, and we love em, even if there arent always lots of finds. Inspiring stuff. C4 has descended to abysmal levels. Information about your device and internet connection, like your IP address, Browsing and search activity while using Yahoo websites and apps. GOOD LUCK TO THEM ALL. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the digs and finds discovered by the crew. Thank goodness there is a myriad of viewers who appreciate the achievement of Time Team. God, is there nothing for older viewers who actually like to think? Time team seemed to be excavating at the behest of large bodies like English Heritage and the National Trust, not some amateurs or local individuals. Even after its star began to wane Time Team remained popular. Just imagine all our Patreon subscribers sitting down to watch Time Team and thinking: We made this happen!. Some of them are dead, and the rest have moved on. I am very sorry to see it go. TV is going downhill faster & faster. Indeed, the only affectation on Time Team was Micks famous stripy jumper. Time Teams status as a staple of the television schedule also wrought changes behind the scenes. Very disappointing. What a shame to see TT let go. Far from a media concoction, the unique individuals on Time Team were filmed going about their work with an honesty and integrity that has seen the series heralded as Britains first reality television show. The team was supplemented by experts appropriate for the period and type of site. Our family love TT and watch it together. For how many years were John Gater and Stuart Ainsworths technical expertise presented as a pat cliche when the work of either could have been expanded? I cannot believe that Mick Aston has died, so very young, I thought he would go on forever. If ch4 wanted to save money why not repeat them from programme 1 . I started watching TT in 1998 (2 years after leaving school) and it showed that history can be not only interesting but also fun. It was not the first time that a chance conversation with Mick had got someone thinking about television archaeology. TT was an utter revelation. do they ever have reunions whereby you could meet the surviving characters.. i hate computers these days, they act up. I too wonder why they stopped it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Loved Time Team and will miss it [endless repeats are not the same but I still find myself watching them anyway]. Closed minds achieve nothing in life. It brings together entire families and to my mind, is of huge importance, in that it makes us aware of who we are and where we came from and the way it was presented to us was magical. I have loved Time Team since episode 1, and have never, not once, missed an episode. Less time looking at the scrapping away of mud from a piece of skull. We shall mourn the loss of TT in Australia, although the episodes arrive on our screens years after they are made, which means well be watching them long after the series ends were still with the old format so I cant comment on the new look TT. Yes, Upton Castle was a bit of a mess in terms of style, but it held our interest. But it just goes to show how Time Team in ingrained in our family! Here in South Africa we ahave been treated to some series and odd programs which I really enjoyed. Yes TR can be intensely irritating at times, but as the years have gone by I think his appreciation of the experts has increased and they have learned skills from him about presentation. 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). Fortunately, it wasnt. Im getting to the point at which I can glance at a find in a diggers hand and exclaim, Oh! Watching the archaeologists and seeing their enthusiasm at even the smallest find,is to me infectious. Oh! Suddenly Channel 4 was receptive to the idea of a major archaeology programme. I had to think about it before I realized what he meant. Sadly, my wife passed away in January 2012 but I carried on watching it until it ended. So sad to see the demise of TT. Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth on How To See Time In The Landscape. Never screened and reputedly lost in the Channel 4 vaults, this pilot captured a show that was as radically different to Timesigns as it was to later Time Team episodes. 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. The explanation for the end of Time Team is that the people who run Channel 4 are all about 12 years old. 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. So sad to see my favourite programme on Channel 4 being axed. 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. What a bore YOU are! The villa is a tantalising prospect a grand building almost as big as Buckingham Palace. 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. 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. Just heard about the axing of Time Team what a shame! 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 dont know. Unlike many here, I think Mary Anne Ochota was a qualified addition to evolve and maintain the momentum of the series. I loved the banter between Tony, Phil and Mick and anyone could see they enjoyed their jobs. Were currently watching the series (2012?) Tony Robinson, global warming? Raksha Dave from Time Team is part of it. 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. People came and went, such as my favourite Robin Bush, but those two remained, as did their stamina and zeal for the show. Many of us have watched Time Team for ages and have been educated (along with Tony) on the ins and outs of Archaeology and did not need another presenter to ask superfluous questions (nice though she was). Ive enjoyed watching all the archeologists old and new & think Tony Robinson is a great presenter. here was atransfixing series, turning elitist subject into everyday knowledge for the ordinary man. 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. The same has been witnessed with the BBC. My own thoughts are this, why should we allow channel 4 to take this away from us, are the Team ready to call it a day or do they feel like me that there are another thousand potential sites out there to dig. We only recently discovered the Time Team show and rush to ensure we dont miss a show. Ive always adored darling Tony Robinson since his days as Baldric, and Mick (RIP), Phil (gotta love him!) Sad days. Thats fairly unusual.. People like myself really appreciate history coming to life as Time Team presented it. I watch Time Team on Amazon Prime here in Phoenix, AZ USA every day!! Time Team brought archaeology to the publics attention (including mine) and will be sorely missed. Ridiculous. Thank God for my Saturday morning lie-in watching four episodes in a row on More 4. Her role, as a foil to Sir Tony, was complimentary, and never as an expert. We live in USA. I loved Time Team in its early format but over the years got fed up listening to the boffins suddenly announcing a high status (Favourite phrase of TT) building eg temple or palace had been found after unearthing a piece of stonework that would get lost in my rockery. Strata indeed! against what channel 4 have done o no they will get a pat on the back and a good pay off for being stupid .. so sad we wont see friends like the time team on our t v screen again.,. The final piece of the jigsaw fell into place during the fledgling Time Teams first episode. I cannot understand why you are axing it!!? 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. Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth on How To See Time In The Landscape. My wife was not well for several years & she found Time Team to be one of the few programs worth watching. Some single episodes already . It announced that after 20 seasons and over 230 episodes the programme was being axed by Channel 4. Filmed at Athelney, site of Alfred the Greats apocraphal burnt cakes, the site was scheduled, precluding excavation. I am signing up to the campaign to keep Time Team! 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. Its sad to see another worthwhile educational program going by the wayside. He completed his undergraduate and Master's degrees at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London before embarking on a career in commercial archaeology. What do we all enjoy about it? But in this, as in so many other ways, Time Team bucks the trend. I agree the lady they brought in for Series 19 was disappointing and that it does show how far C4 has come in the last 20 years. I enjoy his style of presentation. I am shattered by this news. Hi Alan, thanks a lot for your reply very helpful. He worked for several commercial units including Oxford Archaeology and MoLAS (as was), until he started a career at L-P Archaeology. Lee. The only thing that surprises me is that they didnt include a so called comedian. Some of the regulars have retired, some have moved on to other things, a few have departed for Tr nan g or the Field of Reeds. He said: 'We were very sorry to see Mick go, and he leaves an extraordinary legacy. In fact, since Tony had no input at all into what digs were scheduled, I dont see how that could even begin to be true. "[3], As of 2010, Ainsworth has been affiliated with the history and archaeology department at the University of Chester, where he is a visiting professor.[4]. As for the rest of the Team, hats off to you for the great fun and excellent archaeology looking forward to a few TT specials. I loved watching Time Team in Australia, way better than the American version. Real shame its leaving our screens but it did give us so many hours of pleasure along with the odd glimpse of a young Alice Roberts and the occasional grumpiness of Mick. 20 years is a great run for any show on TV. Obviously I am not the only Australian (albeit English-born) to miss Time Team. Please BBC take this show under your wings ! Exploring the archaeology of the Roadford Reservoir, Devon, this came about after Tim Taylor approached Mick Aston to present the series. I loved Mick and Phil and Stuart et all, picking on Matt for any rotton job. And as for the Ooh.. Ah, that be cer monial, that be in the dialect of a village idiot just about summed up the whole package. I regularly tape the programmes as it is shown on a variety of stations, history,yesterday, and channel 4 being some. Keep the show going its fantastic Ive been watching it as long as I can remember I got fed up with running and prancing, daring to contradict real aercheologists. I would love to see as many of the team as posible brought together for specials or even to tell us what they are involved in now. I agree with you . This so Heartbreaking. I am devastated to hear about Mick Aston.. Stewart Ainsworth FSA, MCIfA is a British archaeological investigator who is regularly seen on Time Team the Channel 4 archaeological television series he joined in 1995. Thank you channel 4 Thank you very very much . The students became instant converts to the program. 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. One of the people she missed was Carenza Lewis. Biggest mistake ever! Not a surprise really when you consider the presence of the suits through all the times that Time Team and others have explored and documented. i am disappoited time team is to end after its next series a lot of people learnt more about the history of the uk.My grandchildren learnt more about roman history medieval times and other periods in our countries history than at school, http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/tv_time_team_to_reveal_secrets_of_ancient_norfolk_fort_1_1783360. There was a early chemistry here of personalities, as well as expertise. 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. Long-serving archaeologists Helen Geake and Stewart Ainsworth would appear less often. Channel 4 can go to where it rightly belongs confined to History. I will miss Mick and Phil and Tony. (But not, ever, I would agree, grinning totty!) Its prototype was Timesigns, a four-part series that aired in 1991. Carenza Lewis, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake and geophys genius John Gater will all be returning and are excited about the new sites. 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. I still watch the series on U-tube. Time team is currently repeated on more-4 each midweek day and sometimes Saturdays, but I still miss fresh episodes and the original presenters and everyone should put pressure on c4 for more episodes even if it were one a month ! When . 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.. For me Time Team was a cultural oasis in a desert of dumb and lazy TV. Apart from the marvellous people who made up the Time Team over the years, the way they used the magic of television to highlight features of the dig, overlay geophys visualisations onto the site, extend a fragment of a pot into a full representation, and so on, made this program an exemplar of how to produce truly educational television; and the way the passion of the Team members and their expertise was allowed to shine, coupled with a witty front man, showed that educational does not have to mean dull or dumbed down. Here in NZ we are only now starting Series 19,in Bitterly, at present. 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 banter between him and the otherwise notoriously stuffy academics was legendary. 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. Nevis, West Indies: Part 1: Directed by Graham Dixon. thank god for the repeats. We will miss his humour, his knowledge and his warmth. With Phil Harding also on board, three members of the future Time Team core were in place. Our investigation of the villa and the landscape it occupies will aim to preserve and enrich our understanding of the past and the people who inhabited it. Just watched a poor programme on Brancaster digfull of errors and poor production. Tony used the rest of the Teams expertise to bring to life what was often regarded as a crusty subject before Time Teams arrival. 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! I am going to miss the show. Stewart has always been my top hero too, although I loved everyone without exception till the changes happened. We are shocked to read that Time Team is finished. my gosh, I am from Chula Vista Ca. All the others as far back as 1828 from Ireland and Scotland. Sounds like a bargain to me, how much do the BBC spend on the series presented by David Attenborough? Always worked so hard and made sense of sites that could have remained a mystery. tony and all made history come to life to the public and we {as a family] looked forward to the one great programme aweek but know more,,,,how old are the producers ,if they watched t t perhapes they could learn that life does not always mean MONEY MORE MONEY , What a bummer! I THINK THIS IS A SHOCKING DECISION AND CAN ONLY HOPE THAT IT IS REVERSED!!! Enough said. Were back thanks to the overwhelming support of our fans!. There are DVDs, some available on Amazon uk. 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. Find out more here. I share your sentiments totally. I am so sad and gutted Time Team has been axed. We hope that someone our there will take them under their wing and continue the shows its been great,you have shown us so much interesting archaeology of our past from all the corner;s of our beautiful planet,and its hard work doing all that digging and trying to preserve it for our future children. 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