I was sad to see Carenza leave and sad to hear of the death of Robin Bush. And of course who can ever forget Helen Geakes dress sense and haircuts ! The show ran on the chemistry among the original team, and failed to work as they left or lost interest. Desperate for a good documentary to watch over a late dinner, I discovered Tony Robinson’s Time Team special on the Mesolithic and “Doggerland.” Immediately, I was hooked. You’ve said it all, I totally agree! It seems there was no need for one before Women’s Studies and all those other nonwhite studies. I have scoured the Internet watching every episode I can find, some more than once. It would be remiss of me not to mention that I was so sorry to read of the passing of Mick Aston. Charlie’s comments would carry more weight if the spelling was correct. I am sooooo sorry the series is over. What a great show. I wonder whether the viewing figures took in the worldwide audience – I know lots of people watched and enjoyed it here in Australia. The writing was on the wall though poor scheduling . We shall mourn the loss of TT in Australia, although the episodes arrive on our screens years after they are made, which means we’ll be watching them long after the series ends – we’re still with the old format so I can’t comment on the new look TT. As an amateur digger, I envied TT’s resources – a JCB on call, geophysics, dendrochronology, C14 dating, DNA analysis. here was atransfixing series, turning elitist subject into everyday knowledge for the ordinary man. I am sure the essence of archeology would be attractive to a core audience once again. Tony used the rest of the Team’s expertise to bring to life what was often regarded as a crusty subject before Time Team’s arrival. Why can’t these so-called clever people just leave things alone. But that hasn't stopped him from hiring a prominent anti–death penalty advocate to a top post in his administration. ! In a nutshell, that is the most relevant comment I have read on here. Such an approach was perfectly realised by Graham Dixon, the director of the first few seasons. Taunton historian Robin Bush, 67, died yesterday after a long illness. Victor Ambrus’ peerless ability to bring the past to life on the fly, for example, was harnassed after his artwork caught Tim Taylor’s eye in Readers’ Digest. 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. I’m sure it was meant to interest younger viewers in Archeology, a noble enough concept. Seasons 9-12 are often seen as Time Team‘s golden age. Arrr! If there had been a mission statement for the show during those early days, it would have been the democratisation of archaeology. Here we chart the highs and lows of a revolutionary format that aimed to bring archaeology to the people. I regularly tape the programmes as it is shown on a variety of stations, history,yesterday, and channel 4 being some. Wouldn’t it be lovely if all teams could be like the Time Team? I hate that its producers felt the need to ‘change its face’ to meet the ‘modern’ idea of glamour! look forward to some more american rubbish or more twits in big brother type of rubbish. My youngest daughter honed her love of history sitting with me on a Sunday evening watching Mick and Tony et al. It was so pathetic, TT definitely doesn’t need to have its memory sullied by association with the puerile crassness of the modern C4. I will miss it desperately and want to say thank you to them all.. What a fantastic 20 years… Bye bye Tme Team…I will care for Phil’s hat ….. I was so sad to find out that it is finished–Could we bring it back? TV & life not the same as early 1990s but I think the format is still sound (just don’t turn it into on old OU prog). I have always loved history but the subjects in school were dull. Roberts is one of only three Lady Lions to score 1,000 career points and grab 1,000 career rebounds. My 100year old mother started,me on T.T.years ago & in turn my children and now the grandchildren watch ,ask questions and research . Much better than most of the rubbish we get now that there are so many channels chasing adverts & broadcasting ever increasing repeats. I have loved it from the first episode and who cares if Tony is a little OTT sometimes, he keeps it entertaining and all together. The last series was disappointing without Helen and Stuart who were replaced by people without half their expertise. Mary Ann Ochota – qualified or not – added nothing substantive unless the viewer was starved for gratuitous cleavage shots and huge white beaverish teeth. We wish Phil, Mick, Helen, Sir Tony and the team well for the future and thank them for the pleasure they have brought us. Big Thank’s Time Team,will never get tired of watching the show’s,finger’s crossed you can make some more. Like you, I find nothing more pleasant than to end a hard day in a Free House with a cold one and a good conversation. What a bunch of idiots. 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. x. Condolences to Mick’s family, his friends and his colleagues. 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 times…and 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. It was the highlight of my life ! I absolutely agree with everything you said ! Kitty Kelley got it from somewhere. 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. 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. Sounds as though short sighted suits are at work. violent, infamous scene from Under the Red Hood in which The Joker murders Robin. 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. Join us for our Teatime watch-alongs on Sunday evenings, followed by exclusive behind-the-scenes interviews, masterclasses and more. Please bring together the old team – Mick, Phil, Carenza, John, Francis and Stewart. RIP Time Team. Dec 26, 2017 - West Country historian best known for the TV show Time Team. The Nail was a three issue Elseworlds story published in 1998. You’re right about More4 but try Discovery History which is showing what I think must be very early ones judging by the colour (and amount!) Biggest mistake ever! I am very sorry to see it go. I’m in my mid 40s. Tony was constantly disagreeing with the archaeologists, and for some unexplained reason there was loud ballet music all but obliterating the commentary. I will miss Matt and Bridgit and all the others – especially Phil. The original team brought an impressive breadth of skills to the programme. I take my hat off to them. Telly Tubbies”. What a disappointment that BBC4 chose to cancel the series! It is practically unheard of for a factual, specialist programme to spend two decades as the public face of its subject and become a national institution along the way. The new series is getting nearer to the original format, I think, except for the one featuring the soldiers, which, dare I say it and risk castigation (?) He worked his sox off. or anyone with an IQ of 50 and below, or the attention span a bit longer than a small herring. She had already experienced the death of her daughter, Pauline Robinson "Robin" Bush, who died from leukemia in 1953 at 3 years old. Many of my friends would love to travel to the UK because of shows like Time Team and Escape to the country. Tony Robinson seems an entirely likeable guy and does his presenting job with good humour and humility. 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. The implementation of Planning Policy Guidance 16 in 1990 enshrined archaeology within the development process and paved the way for today’s professional units. Interesting, in these days where we (oldies) are not responding to adverts as much as the supposed young and affluent… to think of alternative crowd-sourcing models for financing programs that we like. 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. I watched every show, every season, and I never noticed that Tony had an “obsession” with Romans. and I’m so grateful to all the Time Team members for a wonderful 20 seasons. I have watched Time Team from day one, and now my 11 and 9 year old daughters love to watch it, in fact my youngest commented she would like to be an archaeologist when she grows up, and this is from watching Time Team, I cannot believe Time Team has been axed, its a national institution. The result was a previously unknown 5th-century monastic enclosure linked to St Columba. So thank you time team I hope someone with a brain brings it back. Oh dear what a shame as it’s such a great program especially with Phil & ALL the team.I think their sense of humour is almost worth a show on it’s own.Anyway a big thank you for many interesting hours as a an armchair archeologist. pain… this is all I can say in thinking that the single most important program ever to put PASSION in archaeology has been culled for giving more profit$ in adverts to run of the mill crap… so long TimeTeam but rest assured you have YOUR place in history now…! The team of Tony, Mick, Phil, Stuart, John, Carenza, Brigid, Guy, etc etc filled me with warmth and satisfaction. Who knows,but hopefully in years to come we might all see a reunion? 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. VALE Time Team, a wonderful Viking/ Roman pyre is burning and we are drinking ourselves to oblivion. We will suffer forever without the seasonal hours of archaeology, in all its forms. With regards to a few folk’s comments about Tony Robinson. Oh Dear. It needed to get back to its roots – look at the early episodes to see why it was successful. This series is in my opinion (and hubby’s) a satisfying end. I have enjoyed Time Team from day one. While Time Team unquestionably experienced problems, particularly in its final years, this much-loved show was an astonishing success, propelling modern archaeology into the public conscious as never before. All of the team can be proud of 20 years of quality television and the many lives touched and informed. I loved it and speaking as an Hibernian, the only thing I found mildly irritating was Tonys’ obsession with all things Roman. Perhaps we could have a US/Canada version? The Twitter page has been great up to now. My second eldest is 18, and we only watch one program together as our interests are so different (that would be Time Team). I have offten mention to my husband, I wonder what the site look like after the the TT have left. 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. Have to admit they are probably the main reason I now spend a lot of my spare time out on the Thames foreshore with the Thames Discovery Programme- enjoying it hugely, and probably have them to thank, they showed us that anyone can get involved. In the country you have more sense of the spirit of a place. Time Team - Robin Bush (1943-2010) Robin Bush (1943-2010) One of the show’s original experts, Robin was resident historian and a key member of the team from the unaired pilot episode, right through until Series 9 in 2003. She has died at the age of 92, leaving behind a … In fact, I actually struggle to watch any anyway, as I made clear at the beginning – the post production is irritating. When I signed there were 1,600 names. The Mick Aston informative, involving wide range of age and expertise-or students out in the field working version, not the americanised teenybopper version as touted by c4 accountants. All the others as far back as 1828 from Ireland and Scotland. You can find her message at https://digventures.com/2013/03/tools-down-for-time-team-raksha-dave-on-the-end-of-an-era-and-her-new-adventure/. (Bog Latin). Channel 4 has lost one viewer it won’t get back. I just love this programme and am very sad to hear that there will be no more. I am shattered by this news. At least we can watch past programmes on More 4 on on the On Demand. 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. Brilliant. Also, the most recent posters may not have heard of Mick Aston’s premature death. Sign up and get your first stock for free. That’s fairly unusual.’. Do specials instead of a series. I am devastated to hear about Mick Aston.. Yeah. The pair bonded on the idyllic Greek island, where Mick’s aptitude for breathing life into the past convinced Tony that archaeology had untapped television potential. What a pity we had to endure that young lady fashion model who merely read her script for a couple of episodes. Somehow I feel her nearness when I watched it after she was gone. Real shame, feels like I’ve lost my friends! Channel 4 you need looking at!!! My wife Ida & I never missed a program for years. I would be very happy, if it was revived. C4 what are you doing timeteam is a great show now u r going to put more rubbish on like big brother I know it not on your channel no more what a shame timeteam will b missed go on bbc take it on, Timeteam what a great show now we got to put up with shows like splash and x factor what is going on with tv now god help. Now a female Bush Tucker Man then you'd be talking. I was disappointed with the change in format, it was like losing family. these idiots decide to change it.i hope they are happy boring peaple.please bring it back. What on earth is going on and who is in charge of these moronic decisions! If ch4 wanted to save money why not repeat them from programme 1 …. Veteran quits as Cambridge beauty joins TV's Time Team Mick Aston, 65, quits historical show after it hires Cambridge graduate Mary-Ann Ochota, 30 Prof Aston was on long-running show for 19 years This comment by Peter Thomas is an excellent precis of all that has been said. "Time Team Digs" The Dark Ages (TV Episode 2002) Robin Bush as Self - Historian You should be ashamed of yourselves, especially the way you have treated Mick Aston after all those years of dedicated service. time team has over the years discovered great things. Thanks to all the past & present members of the crew and cast. It was not the first time that a chance conversation with Mick had got someone thinking about television archaeology. Time Team! there must be a law t HATE all the crap American shows taking over the tv. Save Time Team Campaign is taking off really fast now, over 1,500 signatures & support from celebrity. Meet the Ancestors was also a good programme we need more Archaelogy programmes on TV. TT was an outstanding program. Robin Bush was born on March 12, 1943 in Hayes, Middlesex, England. You were apparently watching a different show than we were. Bush is dead at 94. I note that none of them ever received a gong. Bringing history to life is far from an easy task but the combination of the experts’ knowledge, Tony Robinson’s ability to act as the interested layman – asking questions that the audience wanted to know the answers to, as well as the interaction and camaraderie between the members of the team I felt worked really well. A unique combination of expertise, enthusiasm and humour. The way Phil, Mick, Tony and company have made an impact on my life, you have no idea. Well Done Time Team, sad to hear you are soon to be no more. does anybody really care what those idiots say surely it is what the public want that matters but no channel 4 has a foolllll running it.. heavan forbid we should have a great program T T ware we think and enjoy it plus it is great family veiwing and may i say also very interresting. Fond regards to everyone from the past on TT. Pity – arise Sir Phil???? 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. 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. 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. Please BBC take this show under your wings ! I hope its not the end of Time Team. certainly helped to fill a lot of university places, even if many of those gaining degrees have gone on to other careers. Published: 5:29PM BST 24 Jun 2010 What better way of introducing archaeology to young people than for them to see it on a Sunday afternoon? and I just came across the time team on my tablet in November 2019. The producers screwed it with the inevitable dumbing down and trying to make it a show for the 20 to 30 year olds. So apart from discovering the female cleavage (along with Kleenex tissues) looking for Saxon pottery designed to hold bovine waste, expanding your knowledge of Saxon tea services as well as teaching both Vivian Westwood and Tony & Guy a thing or two…what other skills have you learned since watching Time Team? Thank you to all of Time Team for 20 wonderful years. I and my husband have learned so much over the years (and are still learning): not only about archeaology itself, but about interpreting architecture, landscapes and social history, to name but three. My son in his early 20s always likes to watch it. Thanks to you all. NON of these corporations do they think we are all idiots who will do as they as told like little children in school!!!!! 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 is that dull and droll science of Archeology, which when one attends a lecture on the subject, or a program on television normally results in boredom, numbness, squirming, or easy sleep. For years I had little interest in any of it but as time went by this programme made me interested…. The team also solved a 100-year mystery about a stone monolith bearing Chinese writing, which … What is the matter not retro enough for you ! very sad day in T V HISTORY. As an aside seeing your label “Non-Richardian Yorkist” what are your feelings about the parking lot discovery? Thank you time team, one and all, I constantly watch the reruns on the history channel here is oz. Judged a misfire by Channel 4, it could have been the end. 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. In terms of Cotswolds villas Time Team has probably covered more of them than anyone else. I have been binge watching on YouTube whilst laid up with a medical issue. Discovered Time Team after visiting U.K. Screening 13 episodes a year, as well as live digs and specials the programme was ubiquitous. It will be sad for it to end, but theres still a few epsiodes I havent seen. I’m sitting here on the sofa watching the usual More 4 showing on a Saturday morning. I first came across it a few years back while channel surfing “Hey I know him – that’s Baldrick”. Cutting some excellent TV and radio presenters in favor of younger ones. Fictional Subjects Photography ... Robin Bush obituary. 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. Prof Mick, great bloke and always so calm, Carensa made a lot of episodes more entertaining and TR – a god of comedy and history. I have watched this program over the life of its showing and as a saturday morning archaeologist I was challenged to dig deeper (pun intended) by reading more into the theory and practice of archaeology. The money was well spent, and today only five Time Team sites remain unpublished — a record that shames many UK units and academics. paleo-osteology, finds experts, experts in the Bronze Age or Rome — I am as raptured as Phil squatting in a newly opened trench exclaiming, “Oooh! 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. Tony Robinson, global warming? Totally gutted Time Team is going. Alan Davis and Mark Farmer were the creative team behind the comic. Emails,from those who have just learned that TT was cancelled a year ago are still dropping into my in box. And the journey is not quite over yet. I have watched TT for the last 20 years from my mid 20’s. I too am upset that this has been axed. will take time, i was successfull on a Campaign on another show before so i know what i have to do, The Campaign is to have a new lease of life on another tv channel. The fact that TT was the only programme I regularly watched on Channel 4 I am very sad to see it go. What proved to be the fateful conversation took place in a Little Chef on the Okehampton bypass. Geophysics gives you that instant picture you can then evaluate’. Tony Robinson’s 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. Time Team is a victim of Channel 4’s misguided quest for “progress”, and we hope that, in some form, the programme may rise like the phoenix from the ashes and take on a persona not far removed from the popular format. RESURRECT THE PAST! But it just goes to show how Time Team in ingrained in our family! I have been fascinated by archaeology since reading Golden Books “Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations,” at the age of nine, but only recently stumbled across TIME TEAM quite by accident one night. 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. Shame on Chanel 4! Robin has been a fixture in Batman media as Batman's partner. I have only lately discovered time team and I love it I record as many episodes as I can and I think all of the cast make the show I was never interested in archeology but I am addicted now just watchedthe Salisbury plain one with the soldiers who are coping with life and one said that watching TT helped hime to relax and began to enjoy life again Its prototype was Timesigns, a four-part series that aired in 1991. Carenza’s missing as is Helen, I see Mick walked out as I also presume Stewart has too. Great format, educational safe family viewing. You only have to look at the great interest shown over Richard III to realise that yes there is a market for a programme of this nature. Love the show and all the characters – especially Phil! I have watched Time Team over the years. Only problem is the core members are getting on a bit, so no chance of it going another 20 years. And now our children and grandchildren watch the programme but not for long now. Agree 100%, they should have left it well alone. If I were an enterprising producer on another channel, I would start a new series that build on the fascinating skills of Stuart A. I think he was a lovely man… SO SAD ! if there is a petition please let me know.i would like to put our names down. I hope more episodes are made available on video! Do 5 day digs instead. So thank you TT, you helped rekindle my interest in history and if I’d been 40 years younger you would probably have been instrumental in a career change! Are any available at the moment does anyone know? All rights reserved to Warner Bros. Prior to us, by and large archaeology was something you could only really appreciate if you read books with long words in them. I don’t understand what purpose that serves, but there you have it. […] One of best, very passionate three part on geology of Great Britain was filmed with Mr Tony Robinson who is/was excellent presenter. The time team has brought history, archaeology, geophys and a devoted team of professionals into my life. A number of archaeological old hands were sacrificed in favour of more youthful presenters. I still enjoy my archaeology despite my age not being able to take part in the reality. Hello from the US. Sadly,she passed away 2 years ago but before she went, she told me not to forget to watch TT. You clearly have no idea what you’ve done. It all got too big, too ambitious. It was time … very sad. Please … bring back Time Team with Tony Robinson. i have seen every episode of time team and i’ve 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. 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. Spot on. Will miss the team, at least we have more 4. Reason: we hardly spoke to each other and what we were watching on tv was hardly worthwhile. I download everything I can from the internet and watch on American PBS stations when I can find it. As Mick Aston observed ‘the geophys and Time Team have always gone hand in hand. The whole catering & accommodation aspect could have been trimmed, without loss of such a wonderful program. Us all. 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. The breakthrough came when Timesigns proved an unexpected hit. I for one will not watch any new episodes. There is a huge following in Australia and after the debacle with the producers bringing in you know who as a co-presenter (of cleavage), the show started its slow path to division. 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! If ever there is a petition to bring this back, count me in. Any girl who could debark a tree without killing it and then build a canoe from the bark, hunt fish from it, … In 2014. I would love to see the actual video, audio and transcript and date/time of GHW Bush making those remarks. 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