So why could it not continue on and evolve in 2013 ? It was the highlight of my life ! But its also the fact that they didnt just impart accumulated knowledge, they made new discoveries as we watched. Time Team announces historic comeback with 2021 dig at huge Oxfordshire Roman villa that may be 'almost the size of Buckingham Palace'. I wonder whether the viewing figures took in the worldwide audience I know lots of people watched and enjoyed it here in Australia. Slower paced, Timesigns has Mick talking directly to the camera in a style more akin to a history documentary or Open University broadcast. Such mass-production was only possible with more rigorous processes guiding filming. 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. Somehow they know that the user is in the US and access is denied. Years earlier, Sir Mortimer Wheeler did some Archaeology pgms on TV and they were always popular. The roman barge in Utrect was particularly interesting and my son in Holland wished to see it. Said no-one, ever. why isn't phil harding in the new time teambt whole home disc keeps disconnecting. Posted By : / nairn ginger biscuits / Under : . Have watched 8 seasons and enjoying them all. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. Through understanding and helping to preserve the past, and sharing it with a worldwide audience, we hope to re-engage with the enthusiasm that so many of our fans have shown over the years., Many of the original team are already involved, both on and off screen. Interested in keeping up to date with the latest archaeological finds across Britain? 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. It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but it was heading there. Give it back all the back room staff and put new life into it , a great progame killed off for no reason , Len. I now live in Australia and love watching shows on my homeland. 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. Yes,he was often guilty of playing the devils advocate, but at such times he was the voice of many of us upon listening to yet another gigantic leap of hastily constructed faith or explanation of purpose for the sake of the less informed viewing massive. Less time looking at the scrapping away of mud from a piece of skull. Having been a loyal fan for 20 years it beggars belief at the changes made in series 19 without any reference to Mick. Just watched a poor programme on Brancaster digfull of errors and poor production. Very sad to hear Time Team is ending. Gutted! 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. If an episode costs 200,000 and average 1.5 million viewers, would 1 million be willing to pay 20p via mobile phone or subscription towards making it, or 400,000 willing to pay 50p per episode? It is the programme really. I loved every member of the cast and crew. A good friend of mine was a guest archaeologist on several T.T programmes and it was my good fortune to go along on production. Being well aired on the Yesterday TV Channel Monday to Friday throughout the day, Time team proved that nothing I is really lost it us just covered up soil sand and water 3 cheers for the team ron atkinson. I loved it and speaking as an Hibernian, the only thing I found mildly irritating was Tonys obsession with all things Roman. Im retired now and would love to get involved in archeology at some level. It is to bad that the show was cut, there are so much more to find, discover and educate us all. I still watch the series on U-tube. I watched every show, every season, and I never noticed that Tony had an obsession with Romans. I made this ages ago and thought someone here MIGHT like it? Loved Time Team and will miss it [endless repeats are not the same but I still find myself watching them anyway]. Im the guy who set it up, iv got the page on Facebook, Twitter and the main website that i run. TV is a wasteland and TT was an oasis in it. Now I will be stuck with overproduced, watered down supposedly historically accurate twaddle , We held a bit of a poll a few years ago with the Pagan Federation as to what the favourite TV programme was. Stranger things have happened! Most of these posts hope that the Beeb could resurrect TT somehow, but AN ENORMOUS THANK YOU TO THE CAST AND CREW FOR THE FABULOUS YEARS THEY HAVE GIVEN US. 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. I am! It makes me chief superfan and supporter all armoury in our shared desire to inspire and stimulate interest in archaeology at all levels., Its great to be back! says Taylor. [3] On 24 July 2008, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Southampton in archaeology. A month after his death, a 'tribute night to Aston was broadcast on More4, showing some of his best moments and most important discoveries. 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. But when he returned to Britain, Tony found the studios equally intransient. I generally watch one episode a night, but on weekends I sometimes binge watch until my eyeballs beg for mercy. How about a petition to Channel 4 demanding its continuation? What a shame to see TT let go. Just started to watch the latest series on C4, very very sad to be losing it soon. 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. In 2003, Matt was recruited as an archaeologist and presenter on Time Team. BBCs own channels will have BBC prefixing the number and anything not by the BBC will obviously by without this prefix. It excited the viewers, gave a good history of The United Kingdom, and made one waiting for the next episode, all due to the enthusiasm and clever programming of the show. Good riddance to Time Team; patronising in the extreme, and as for that prat Robinson leaping about a la Baldrick, reduced the entire thing to music hall. Innit? Time Team return, Time Team is coming back, 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. Alarm bells began to ring for us when Mary-Anne appeared it seemed to coincide with a dumbing-down of the show. This is a project in its preliminary stages, run by Tim Taylor. Channel 4 manages to produce some really rubbish reality programmes to titivate the youthful masses it hopes to attract. There may be mosaics, a bathhouse and perhaps even temples. 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. It is made up of real people and I have learnt so much from it. Its an opportunity to find new voices and should help launch a new generation of archaeologists, under the guidance and watchful eye of Mr Taylor! Please bring Time Team back. Over 333,000 copies of this popular free guide issued worldwide from 2004 to 2020 (and still in demand.) What Time Team once was in the beginning will never be reproduced. Pay per view TV? 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. God, is there nothing for older viewers who actually like to think? This comment by Peter Thomas is an excellent precis of all that has been said. Was it one persons requirements that brought extras into the show, persons not wanted nor needed, also not as talented as a walnut. 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. And anyway, why would we want Channel 4 to keep TT? well done on ending one of the best programs on tele. A group of archaeologists have 3 days to discover historical artifacts in different sites around Britain. Sad that time team is no longer , they should go back to how it all started , dont mess with what is ok . I cannot believe that there will be no more Time Team, I hope the idiots at channel 4 read this site. Never mind Beagle 2's Professor Colin Pillinger - Time Team's Phil Harding is the original yokel hero. He has an excellent track record in a range of organisations in the . 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). 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? There just isn't any of the stuff to dig up anymore". (and its cost increases). Its disadvantage was that it had no scope to include z-list celebrities to manufacture controversy around, and so it was killed. Best wishes, good luck and Gods speed to the lot of you! I have watched Time Team for years as has my son and many many friends. Speaking to Express.co.uk, Tony said he won't be. I do not know he was pretty good towards the end at his archeology. Philip 'Phil' Harding, FSA (born 25 January 1950) is a British field archaeologist. Ive learnt so much and enjoying every minuteo. Special thanks also to the fantastic people behind the research, graphics, computer animation that added so much to each episode. 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. Tapped into the national zeitgeist, its stars were household names and at its zenith Time Team was pulling in audiences of 3 3.5 million viewers. The team are irreplaceable, such a huge whole left in life once the program ended. Do 5 day digs instead. 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. I absolutely agree with everything you said ! Perhaps one of the other channels will see the folly of C4s ways and pick up the program before its too late? 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. Shots of him in woodland seeking out raw materials for a reconstructed axe allowed the audience to witness the hands-on practical process. Suddenly Channel 4 was receptive to the idea of a major archaeology programme. He only lives about 10 miles away. Meet the Ancestors was also a good programme we need more Archaelogy programmes on TV. 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. Thank you to everyone who made this such a wonderful programme. All I can say is thank you to all at Time Team. Surely, the way forward would have been to dig deeper into the technical aspects of the archaeology and to speak to the intelligent audience that made the program in the first place whether the sites themselves or the techniques being employed. It has certainly opened up the world of archaeology to new generations, and has The programs were never the same when Mick wasnt on. Who is Matt Williams married to?Erika Monroe Williamsm. Channel 4s choices are definitely a bit strange to many of us. Like Concorde, should be rescued by someone BBC and revamped ASAP. We always joke about that, but I think its indicative of how people understand archaeology is a process. TT had a great following here in Canada. They had a meeting which they didnt invite me to and said the BBCs Countryfile was the model. With Season 20 airing next year, and a series of one-off specials running into 2014, there is still new Time Team on the way. 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. Just recently I saw a show about Egypt using satellite infra red survey archaeology that could reveal all the subsurface features accross a whole landscape. Hopefully, but unlikely, someone will gather the real TT people and give it a rebirth. It was this show that gave me the inspiration to study history and I will really miss it. I suppose theres nothing wrong with her per se, but her presence is utterly unnecessary. Victor Ambrus peerless ability to bring the past to life on the fly, for example, was harnassed after his artwork caught Tim Taylors eye in Readers Digest. Sounds as though short sighted suits are at work. Time Team's Phil Harding explains why Waterloo Uncovered is such an important project, during our first excavation at Hougoumont Farm in 2015. I watch time team on more 4 Sounds like a bargain to me, how much do the BBC spend on the series presented by David Attenborough? If you had to justify the value of television as a medium that can inform as well as entertain, Time Team would be the perfect example. I note that none of them ever received a gong. Keep the show going its fantastic Ive been watching it as long as I can remember 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. Inever felt patronised and loved the interation beteen Tony, Phil and Mick. Time Team did a superb job and has an excellent track record of quality archaeology, bringing the subject to millions via TV and publishing the results! And we have just recently lost Mick Aston, the Rock of Gibraltar of the show. But would be top stuff if BBC 4 could pick it up and get things back on track. So sad to hear that it came to an end. I am sooooo sad that it is going and so is my family and friends..I would like to know what every one is going to do now our friends we see every week,I love the banter between everyone but no more. The Aussie fans are disappointed too that T T will be finishing up. Whether or not Aston was casting aspersions at the new host, but the timing of his comments about the show becoming 'dumbed down certainly appeared to be pointed in that general direction, or at least lumping Ochota in with what he saw as detrimental changes. I dont think I could stand watching Phils grotty hat for one more season. Here we chart the highs and lows of a revolutionary format that aimed to bring archaeology to the people. Unfortunately my DVD recording did not work. I always look forward to it when I get chance and to know that it is finishing is both shocking and disappointing. Great format, educational safe family viewing. Veteran quits as Cambridge beauty joins TV's Time Team. Phew! This is the sort of Programme that would thrive on BBC 2 in conjunction with The Open University. It was a perfunctory end for a television institution that, over two decades, made British archaeology more accessible and popular than ever. Recently went to Jamestown where the 1st Time Team America was tapedthat was amazing. I hope hell receive belated recognition for that fact. Its a wonder one isnt constantly tripping over roman floor tiles and Anglo-Saxon wine jugs every time one steps out of ones door. How right Mick Aston was. Show creator Tim Taylor has since confirmed they will begin work on two new YouTube episodes, with two more in . Yes, we all love the longtime archaelogists (sorry, cant do stars I would say they wouldnt like it either it is rather derogatory of their abilities!) As a young boy, he became fascinated with the Stone Age. Contents 1 Life and career It seems there was no need for one before Womens Studies and all those other nonwhite studies. TT was an outstanding program. Promotion of family values good natured banter and above all a love of the past which TT has shared with us over the years is disposed of Shame, Shame, Shame. In fact, I actually struggle to watch any anyway, as I made clear at the beginning the post production is irritating. You were apparently watching a different show than we were. Harold Bush is lying. However BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a state-owned institution from inter-war origins. I know more today of English history and Roman occupation than I ever did before. Phil Abramson . The site, discovered by historian and metal detectorist Keith Westcott after years of research, could be one of the biggest villas uncovered in recent times. 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! Not that I want to live there though am quite happy to be an Australian. . 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. Time Team is a British television programme that originally aired on Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014. This little part of the world (so far from Australia) was the birthplace of my father in law. . Do specials instead of a series. With 1.5 million views a month on the Time Team Classics YouTube channel in 41 countries worldwide, the new programs will premiere on YouTube, with additional behind-the-scenes content on the platform Patreon. [8], In 1991, Harding took part in the series Time Signs, which was produced by Tim Taylor, who went on to create Channel 4's popular archaeology series Time Team. The focus groups of today, the council chambers of yesteryear; all determined to make their mark, put their talent on show. i like everything about it. Timothy Power and Mark Horton return to the Old Fort of Stone Town, Zanzibar, to discuss the sites Swahili origins. Philip Harding DL FSA (born 25 January 1950) is a British field archaeologist. Really gutted TT has finished, and shame on Channel 4 for this decision! Tim confirmed they have not found a new presenter yet, however many of the . I have offten mention to my husband, I wonder what the site look like after the the TT have left. Phil Harding is a highly accomplished archaeologist, working in the field since 1971, and inspired a whole new generation of archaeologists and historians through his work on Time Team. What proved to be the fateful conversation took place in a Little Chef on the Okehampton bypass. Regards, Paul Tressel [emailprotected], Time Team was a massive part of my life, Im still watching it even now on more 4 :O. 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. Managing Change Guide. The main loss will be the delight we have got shouting bullshit-ware at the screen as Paul Blinkhorn announces a small lump of stone is in reality early Anglo Saxon teaset. They were digging Roman ruins in someones back garden and explaining in detail what they were doing and what it told them hooked then and there. We will miss Tony, Mick and Phil and the team. 2021 CURRENT PUBLISHING LTD - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. So sad. very sad day in T V HISTORY. Did you watch the episode of operation nightingale where the maimed ,psychologically injured soldiers from conflicts abroad found an inner peace and a feeling that they were no longer helpless in the world. x. Condolences to Micks family, his friends and his colleagues. For complete information about the cookies we use, data we collect and how we process them, please check our. And the team. 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. If they wont reinstate Time Team ,then why not release All episodes in a DVD BOX set . 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. Come on BBC . Therefore, Phil Harding's lucky days are Sundays and Saturdays and lucky numbers are: 4, 8, 13, 17, 22 and 26 . And to lose Mick Aston well, that was it for us. The banter between him and the otherwise notoriously stuffy academics was legendary. Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Emmys Hispanic & Latino Voices STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events.
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