I assume it will be more imported American rubbish or so called comedy. Didnt like the changes either to the team it change the dynamics of the program but kept watching anyway. That doesnt work in the US. Phil Harding - Biography. I would just like to thank Tony Robinson, Mick Aston, Phil Harding and all of the crew at Time Team for many years of fascinating TV. The above link is a petition which was put together by Lee Brady. As a Aussie viewer addicted to Time Team (even if we do seem to get more repeats than would seem necessary) I am amazed that this program has been axed. Most days, I have been watching the TT repeats on More Four in the afternoons. Despite some great new people who learnt fast, expecting them to produce the same calibre of product immediately was just too big a demand. Such a fantastic guide, love it. Tim Taylor devised the name Time Team, and in 1992 a pilot episode was filmed in Dorchester-on-Thames. Yes, really hope so! Please ressurect it someone soon. 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. He became a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series Time Team . 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. Stranger things have happened! I hugely regret the demise of the series and sincerely hope that it will resume or that a similar, archaeology-based series will take its place. As a lowyal Time Team viewer from Australia, I am devastated. I am signing up to the campaign to keep Time Team! What a shame to see TT let go. 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. 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. 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. there must be a law t Especially ones which dig a site. I agree what will replace it I can see more reality programmes cooking programmes selling houses nothing to work the mind channel 4 must be out of thier tiny mind. All Rights Reserved, We use cookies to enhance your experience while using our website. We have several equally exciting sites lined up that we hope to investigate with support from our fans on Patreon., Already Patreon supporters have rallied behind another fantastic site a mysterious Iron Age settlement with underground passages in Cornwall. You talk rubbish mate! 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. I KNOW i keep on saying it but i cannot get my head around channel 4 is getting rid off such a great programme it is seen all over the world. What a great detective. 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. Thank you, thank you, Ive loved the passion, warmth, fun, humour and absolute professionalism that you all have brought to history. Can anyone help us with the contact? 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. I really loved the show and learned so much. Much better than most of the rubbish we get now that there are so many channels chasing adverts & broadcasting ever increasing repeats. Ace Custom: Phil Harding uses a personal shovel that he's modified to suit his needs. Ive got to say I think he handled the shows well. Not any more. 19891997. I suppose I will have to go back to Dads Army for a bit of sanity then, Robyn Australia 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. I am wondering how many viewers watch the Time Team now. 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. How amazing to see the history of England being unearthed. I am now watching past digs being repeated on More Four. archaeology..is what my 11 year old gran daughter is looking into training for..shows like these are needed more. Sad to hear the show is coming to an end but hopefully repeat episodes will frequent our screens for a long time to come. 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. It wasnt perfect but the catty remarks are uncalled for. The collection of grave goods dubbed the Harpole Treasure after the name of the local parish has been dated to AD 630-670. Southern Gaulish Samian ware, or Green Glaze, 14th Century. Observing how so many, different, recondite specialty fields come together paleopalynography. In mid October 2012 an all-points bulletin was emailed to Time Team staff. 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. What a hero! You wonder what kind of palsy comes over TV programers when they occasionally axe the best shows, shows with strong, solid substance!!! So sad to see my favourite programme on Channel 4 being axed. Never mind Beagle 2's Professor Colin Pillinger - Time Team's Phil Harding is the original yokel hero. There were times when I would have liked to see some longer digs being featured and I would still like to see that, but it seems likely that it will not be Channel 4 doing it. In the immediate aftermath of a programmes cancellation it is traditional to attempt a post-mortem of what went wrong. The breathtaking 3D model it produced of the buried structures persuaded English Heritage to commission a complete survey on the spot. Hated that they axed Mick Aston and brought in other new people!!! axed is their a petition running ????? 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. Changing all the staff behind Time Team was a big mistake, but ending it is even bigger. Lets hope that somebody in control is also a fan and a compromise can be reached. Last Name. My parents watch it. Thank you, Time Team!!! Telly Tubbies. The old team are the best Mick, Phil, Tony et al.. think Channel 4 have made a HUGE mistake bet they wont listen to the public.. Out of interest, Time Team fans, how many of you would be willing to pay directly to watch new programs? A political gesture aimed at building up regional television, Time Team was picked because it seemed a safe pair of hands. Time Team brought archaeology to the publics attention (including mine) and will be sorely missed. Sounds as though short sighted suits are at work. irritating but he was a part of a recipe that worked for a long time. This page was last edited on 1 January 2023, at 22:21. With Channel 4 keen to attract more supposedly affluent viewers in their 20s and 30s, season 19 also tinkered with the format. Such an approach was perfectly realised by Graham Dixon, the director of the first few seasons. Plans: Tim said they now have enough funds to film two new episodes for YouTube, with another two in the pipeline. A terrible loss to the worlds of broadcasting and archaeology alike, with luck a pheonix will rise from the ashes. He became a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series Time Team. It also produces some amazing factual programmes to expand our knowledge and it is extremely worrying that the latter are being sacrificed for moronic programmes like Big Fat Gypsy Wedding which add nothing to our cultural enlightenment. 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. 2003Michelle Johnsonm. 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. Now everyone knows the word geophys. I never had any interest in my UK ancestors heritage and the conditions they must have endured until I watched the team in action. He worked initially for the Southampton City Council Archaeology Unit, combining this with five seasons of excavations (19721976) run by the British Museum at the Neolithic flint mines of Grimes Graves, Norfolk. What a wonderful 20 years we/they had. This feature was published in Current Archaeology issue274. And so disappointed in ch4. In the country you have more sense of the spirit of a place. Thanks Julia and Lizbeth. | Waterloo Uncovered", "Deputy Lieutenant Commissions LIEUTENANCY OF WILTSHIRE", "New deputy lieutenants include TV archaeologist and Wiltshire College chairman", "University looks forward to Graduation 2008", "Time Team archaeologist Phil Harding wins Current Archaeology's prestigious Archaeologist of the Year award for 2013", Lectures by Phil Harding for Waterloo Uncovered Project, Interview with Phil Harding during Salisbury 2020:Digital Big Weekend, Salisbury Sites Blog and Salisbury Uncovered film, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phil_Harding_(archaeologist)&oldid=1130968750. 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 disadvantage was that it had no scope to include z-list celebrities to manufacture controversy around, and so it was killed. Just heard about the axing of Time Team what a shame! Tony Robinsons role seems to one of a viewer who does not completely understand what is going on although logic says he must have a reasonable knowledge of the subject. Learning? He started his career in 1973 at Marquee Studios as Tape-Op and by 1979 as engineer, then from 1984 at PWL Studios as chief engineer and from 1992 at The Strong Room.Collaborated on a regular basis with production partner Ian Curnow since 1986. There is definitly an opportunity for BBC2 together with The Open University to take over when Time Team ceases. Towards the end of its run an average episode would cost around 200,000 a budget more on the scale of a small drama show in the eyes of television insiders but over 20 years Channel 4 pumped 4 million directly into British archaeology. Watched it since the beginning, some great episodes and fantastic digs. Mick, can I come work for you? Mary-Ann Ochota caused the Time Teams slow demise as she and the behind the scene executives strangled a Team that had worked played and laughed together over so many years making not good but great viewing. I loved every member of the cast and crew. if there is a petition please let me know.i would like to put our names down. Can you use an induction pan on a regular stove? Thanks to you all. One only has to consider the creative arc of Channel Four itself, to have noticed that its a shadow of what it set out to be and frankly, those who run it now should be ashamed of themselves, relieved from duty, and prevented from working in TV ever again. One of the people she missed was Carenza Lewis. 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. Most of what I feel about the demise of TT has already been said here. The couple married after the ABC helped bring them together. 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. John and his team must have walked miles. Yet time and time again they did it with grace, charm, humor and knowledge. Yes, the original core team with Carenza, and then Helen Geake, were great. We live in USA. Failing that I can recommend looking at Google Maps satellite pictures of your local area looking for earthworks hours of fun! 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. Yes, Upton Castle was a bit of a mess in terms of style, but it held our interest. I have been in awe of the items the team dig up and the re-constructions. It used to be on in the early evening at a specific time every week, but in recent years it has been moved to late afternoon with the start time changing by 5, 10, 15 minutes over the weeks making watching and even recording it more problematic. Please, please would someone bring the show back, This is just another example of Managements old adage: Its perfect; lets New and Improve it 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. Time Team you have inspired so many people .THANK YOU. We do have money too you know. I used to love all the research that they put into it. I have missed Time Team SO much.. You should be ashamed of yourselves, especially the way you have treated Mick Aston after all those years of dedicated service. I loved it and speaking as an Hibernian, the only thing I found mildly irritating was Tonys obsession with all things Roman. With only some strange earthworks exciting the curiosity of local amateur archaeologists to go on, the programme was flexible enough to be able to take a gamble. Completely unable to absorb and assimilate well presented information in an entertaining style, and you completely misread the ironic style of Tony Robinson. My grandson is a budding archeologist and watches it over and over again. I watch time team on more 4 Personal life. Afterall SA is used to watching loads of rubbish repeats every day!!! My wife Ida & I never missed a program for years. Mick Aston, 65, quits historical show after it hires Cambridge graduate Mary-Ann Ochota, 30. In 2003, I joined the amateur Biggar Archaeology Group which, among other achievements, discovered the oldest known archaeological site in Scotland. 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 offten mention to my husband, I wonder what the site look like after the the TT have left. .As always it will, I supposed be replaced by some run of the mill program, American sit com or soap. I have watched time team since episode one and I am gutted . anyway the technology is facinating and makes history come alive. Francis Pryor and Phil Harding filming a classic episode at Brancaster (Photo: Time Team Digital) It appears that the programme has unexpected healing properties. 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. Trained on excavations with the Bristol University Extra Mural Department and other bodies from 1966, he has been a [] I know we have no Roman history, but there are thousands of of places that date back thousands of years. 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