Stick to Postman Pat, Time Team is too intellectual for you. What do we all enjoy about it? 200k an episode? The pair bonded on the idyllic Greek island, where Micks aptitude for breathing life into the past convinced Tony that archaeology had untapped television potential. My oldest son and my husband dream of being as good in tapping flint as Phil! Time Teams legacy leaves much to celebrate. I feel really, really angry about it. After reading, in his youth, a book about Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, and visiting the Tower of London, he formed an interest in the history of landscapes.[2]. 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. I love the show, and I have also fallen in love wit Faye Simpson. I am! Charlies comments would carry more weight if the spelling was correct. Prof Mick, great bloke and always so calm, Carensa made a lot of episodes more entertaining and TR a god of comedy and history. 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. We didnt do much history at school and we have all learned so much from TT. I am appalled. 1951. 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 wonder whether the viewing figures took in the worldwide audience I know lots of people watched and enjoyed it here in Australia. They tried an American version but it didnt have the natural chemistry that the original had. 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. My heart goes out to his family. I used to go into a hole with a size 9 shovel and spent nearly 33 years digging around obstacles like gas, electric, sewers, to name a few and I can assure you that I did not have the patience of some of this team. I would echo it completely. 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. 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. I suppose I will have to go back to Dads Army for a bit of sanity then, Robyn Australia Shame I can now only watch it at 5am on the History channel. Time Team was on television, but not of it. 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. People seem to enjoy them. 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]. Not on the Live I dug at. Congratulations to all concerned on a great program. TT was an utter revelation. To an incredible all round team we thank you and to Phil damn we will miss you! He has since appeared in over two hundred episodes. Lets not overlook Public Broadcastng with its excellent programming, either). 20+ years is a remarkable feat for a television program, and this isnt Dr. Who either. Ive got to say I think he handled the shows well. 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 way, if the executives mild revamp caused viewer figures to plummet, how come it was the programme and not those executives who got the flak? 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!) 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. My wife Ida & I never missed a program for years. Time Team cancelled by Channel 4? Were not archaeologists but were not stupid either it really did feel like they had decided the audience was unintelligent. Miss TT so much. Have only just found out that Time Team has been axed after 20 years and I am gutted. 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. All the best shows are taken off and all we are left with is the boring and so untrue Archers. Desperate for a good documentary to watch over a late dinner, I discovered Tony Robinsons Time Team special on the Mesolithic and Doggerland. Immediately, I was hooked. It is hardly surprising that I rarely watch TV these days apart from repeats of old favourites thank goodness we still have 20 years worth of repeats. Re-assemble the team ! When . Is there any posibility of obtaining a copy of this and the program on the barge in the river Rhine. I hope more episodes are made available on video! Gutted that Time Team has ended! Stewart Ainswort. 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. People like myself really appreciate history coming to life as Time Team presented it. It is located on the Broughton Estate in Oxfordshire, belonging to the Fiennes family. Ive watched TT for years now and thoroughly enjoyed it. Like others I have loved TT right from the start and have always enjoyed it. Sounds as though short sighted suits are at work. But once the old hands started to disappear the magic went too. 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. I started looking to find more information about the history of Henham park & was so sad to see the show has been axed. swinging camera booms. Now British television can be as dumbed down and offensive as American television has become. It was my favourite show for many years and definitely, for me, left so many other scientifically accurate but boring-as-bat-poo documentaries in its dust. these idiots decide to change it.i hope they are happy boring peaple.please bring it back. Slower paced, Timesigns has Mick talking directly to the camera in a style more akin to a history documentary or Open University broadcast. This is in no doubt as a direct result of the post production. Stewart has been interested in history since the age of eleven, after reading a book about Horatio Nelson. Archaeologists from Wessex Archaeology, working in advance of HS2 construction, have been excavating the site for the past three years. Perhaps if Chanel 4 had stuck to the old adage of if it aint broke, dont fix it we would still have had this gem of a program to look forward to enjoying for many years to come.. with shows like Strictly Come Dancing, X Factor, Dancing on Ice, Big Brother etc etc etc all being aired every week, Time Team was an oasis of entertainment and education in a vast desert of mundane TV programming. I still enjoy my archaeology despite my age not being able to take part in the reality. Thank you Time Team for all those wonderful hours of thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. Best wishes, good luck and Gods speed to the lot of you! the cast were so friendly to each other and the show was so intresting and made you think off our past . 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). A former academic at Bristol and Oxford universities, he has worked tirelessly to bring archaeology to a wider audience. I dont think I could stand watching Phils grotty hat for one more season. We wish Phil, Mick, Helen, Sir Tony and the team well for the future and thank them for the pleasure they have brought us. ! Hi. 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. and long may you show them PLEASE pauline x, I am trying to get a contact e-mail address for Tim Taylor (IV) because a group of archeologists in Canada would like to see a Time Team Canada started and we need advice and any other help from the expert. 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.,. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRe_gMtXNo. Meanwhile Tonys role transformed from a quiz master to translator of all things archaeological for a general audience. I would be very interested in acquiring DVDs of the whole series to watch at my leaisure. I used to go into a hole with a size 9 shovel and spent nearly 33 years digging around obstacles like gas, electric, sewers, to name a few and I can assure you that I did not have the patience of some of this team. I continue to be in awe of the fantastic skill and enthusiasm of the presenters.May TT be always available to us. Stopping TT is just another step in the dumbing down of TV and radio. Stewart Ainsworth (born 26 June 1951) is a British archaeological investigator who was regularly seen on . I have watched Time Team since day one, and until the last two or three series have always enjoyed it. The attempted dumbing down of Time Team smacks of dim executives meeting to dish corporate cliches out to one another. 17:30 EST 07 Feb 2012 Tony was the right man to present, no doubt about that. My enduring memory of Tony Robinson during Time Team filming is him spending several hours of every day asleep in a massive American car with the engine running. 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