Time Team is coming back
Discussion
Love TT. It was great lockdown telly. It needs slightly eccentric people on it. Nobody could call Mick Aston and Phil Harding entirely normal. It needs geeks. Helen Geake for starters. And the geophys team. And Carenza Lewis. And a coterie of relatively scantily clad muddy kneed juniors to provide trench cam fodder. And guest star super eccentrics who know all there is to know about incredibly niche subjects. Needs an Everyman presenter who knows nothing. Not Sandi Tostig, she ruins it.
Come back Time Team all is forgiven! I've always had a passing interest in archaeology and was always an avid Time Team viewer and today's shows just don't measure up.
I've been watching 'The Great British Dig - History in Your Back Garden' on More 4 (one of the Channel 4 sub channels)
https://www.channel4.com/press/news/hugh-dennis-pr...
Which is okay but relies more on volunteer diggers guided by 'professionals'.
I've been watching 'The Great British Dig - History in Your Back Garden' on More 4 (one of the Channel 4 sub channels)
https://www.channel4.com/press/news/hugh-dennis-pr...
Which is okay but relies more on volunteer diggers guided by 'professionals'.
Phil works for Wessex Archaeology so it may depend if they get involved or if he's self employed and can please himself about what projects he does.
https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/people/phil-harding
https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/people/phil-harding
808 Estate said:
They should get Alice to host it.
Oh yes, I was just thinking that when I scrolled across your post.There is a rather lovely buxom lady who does Greek & Egyptian digs who I could watch all day as well.
Edit to add, Couldn't remember her name, Google come good as usual.
Bettany Hughes
Edited by Total loss on Monday 15th March 10:30
Total loss said:
Oh yes, I was just thinking that when I scrolled across your post.
There is a rather lovely buxom lady who does Greek & Egyptian digs who I could watch all day as well.
Edit to add, Couldn't remember her name, Google come good as usual.
Bettany Hughes
You beat me to itThere is a rather lovely buxom lady who does Greek & Egyptian digs who I could watch all day as well.
Edit to add, Couldn't remember her name, Google come good as usual.
Bettany Hughes
Edited by Total loss on Monday 15th March 10:30
Can see it now, Carenza's found a bit of Roman bowl, Bettany leans forward to pick it up, camera pans down, Lovely!
FourWheelDrift said:
Old team members I can spot, John Gater (GeoPhys), Helen Geake and Carenza Lewis and Stuart Ainsworth are on the splash title screen.
They know what they're doing, they're not going to feck it up.
I could be wrong but the chap on the far right (no pun intended) looks like that idiot who co-presented WW2 Treasure Hunters.They know what they're doing, they're not going to feck it up.
Krupp88 said:
I could be wrong but the chap on the far right (no pun intended) looks like that idiot who co-presented WW2 Treasure Hunters.
No the chap on the right is a Time Team original cast memberhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Ainsworth
PH5121 said:
Krupp88 said:
I could be wrong but the chap on the far right (no pun intended) looks like that idiot who co-presented WW2 Treasure Hunters.
No the chap on the right is a Time Team original cast memberhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Ainsworth
Are you thinking of this chap off the series which dug up WW2 stuff in the UK with Suggs?
https://stephentaylorhistorian.com/about-2/
https://stephentaylorhistorian.com/about-2/
PH5121 said:
Are you thinking of this chap off the series which dug up WW2 stuff in the UK with Suggs?
https://stephentaylorhistorian.com/about-2/
That's him, my opinion was based on his involvement in a rather unsavoury series he featured in several years ago (N&$i War Diggers).https://stephentaylorhistorian.com/about-2/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2594201/N...
Edited by Krupp88 on Monday 15th March 13:28
Krupp88 said:
PH5121 said:
Are you thinking of this chap off the series which dug up WW2 stuff in the UK with Suggs?
https://stephentaylorhistorian.com/about-2/
That's him, my opinion was based on his involvement in a rather unsavoury series he featured in several years ago (N&$i War Diggers).https://stephentaylorhistorian.com/about-2/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2594201/N...
Edited by Krupp88 on Monday 15th March 13:28
Lynchie999 said:
Krupp88 said:
PH5121 said:
Are you thinking of this chap off the series which dug up WW2 stuff in the UK with Suggs?
https://stephentaylorhistorian.com/about-2/
That's him, my opinion was based on his involvement in a rather unsavoury series he featured in several years ago (N&$i War Diggers).https://stephentaylorhistorian.com/about-2/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2594201/N...
Edited by Krupp88 on Monday 15th March 13:28
A different Steve I think.
Time Team was a phenomenon.
The first episode was brilliant, although they didn’t do any digging of course. Here was accessible archaeology. And I didn’t even know I was waiting for it.
Mick Aston was the kingpin. It seemed to lose direction after he died.
It took inspiration, and a lot of faith, to put it on prime time TV, but the first reviews were enough to convince millions to watch. The times we saw a skull being unearthed, and someone suggesting, ‘It’s in great condition,’ when it was all but falling apart.
Back a few years, I visited a museum when on holiday and it was sparsely populated, as you’d expect, right up until the archaeology rooms, which were all but packed. TT had completed a couple of digs in the area, and they had exhibitions of the finds.
Can you imagine the meeting at Ch4. Nutty Don comes in with a suggestion of a programme that could be their biggest hit. A circle of a dozen blokes, all trying to hide their scepticism. ‘Archaeology, Don? What, like old stuff? I think your point that no one else is doing it is inarguable, but have you wondered why?’
The first episode was brilliant, although they didn’t do any digging of course. Here was accessible archaeology. And I didn’t even know I was waiting for it.
Mick Aston was the kingpin. It seemed to lose direction after he died.
It took inspiration, and a lot of faith, to put it on prime time TV, but the first reviews were enough to convince millions to watch. The times we saw a skull being unearthed, and someone suggesting, ‘It’s in great condition,’ when it was all but falling apart.
Back a few years, I visited a museum when on holiday and it was sparsely populated, as you’d expect, right up until the archaeology rooms, which were all but packed. TT had completed a couple of digs in the area, and they had exhibitions of the finds.
Can you imagine the meeting at Ch4. Nutty Don comes in with a suggestion of a programme that could be their biggest hit. A circle of a dozen blokes, all trying to hide their scepticism. ‘Archaeology, Don? What, like old stuff? I think your point that no one else is doing it is inarguable, but have you wondered why?’
They had some really good finds in the first few series and the limited number of days they were allowed to dig was sometimes really annoying. They'd end up stopping just when things were looking really good!
Later on though it wasn't such an easy watch, a few days of digging for a couple of pot sherds and a shadow of a ditch, and even then Phil Harding could make the most amazing leaps and declare what it was that they'd found and the name of the builder!
Later on though it wasn't such an easy watch, a few days of digging for a couple of pot sherds and a shadow of a ditch, and even then Phil Harding could make the most amazing leaps and declare what it was that they'd found and the name of the builder!
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