Time Team is coming back

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Derek Smith said:

Mick Aston was the kingpin. It seemed to lose direction after he died.

A few episodes of the final series had already been on tv when he died.

[silverthorn2151]

It lost something before then, when they bought that woman on board and tried to glam it up a bit. Forget her name but she was an historian.

I remember reading Prof Mick was a bit pissed off about it.

[Leithen]

What's the view on TT from within the Archaeology world?

[crofty1984]

Leithen said:

What's the view on TT from within the Archaeology world?

Really fast motorbikes caning it round an island. What's not to love?

[FourWheelDrift]

LeadFarmer said:

Shame Phil isn't included, I wonder why?

He could be, he's still involved with Time Team. This has just been posted - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCmXfQyyNBQ

[LeadFarmer]

Leithen said:

What's the view on TT from within the Archaeology world?

I always wondered that. Do other archaeologists criticise TT for turning up, giving themselves just 3 days, then buggering off. Do they see it as a rush job?

Or did TT just claim to be there for 3 days, when in fact they were there longer?

[FourWheelDrift]

LeadFarmer said:

Or did TT just claim to be there for 3 days, when in fact they were there longer?

They have done quite a few digs in cooperation with local teams who carry on with it. But TT are there really for just the 3 days (although the geophys team can be there earlier doing scans).

I'd say it's been invaluable in many cases, proving something is there for future evaluation by longer term digs.

[FourWheelDrift]

Interview with Tony Robinson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEA_y-e6wG8

[warch]

Leithen said:

What's the view on TT from within the Archaeology world?

I’ve been a archaeologist for about twenty years. I quite like watching the show myself but I don’t think I’d want to appear on the show, archaeology is full of wannabe tv presenters and competing egos so it’d be a fairly joyless experience.

Tony Robinson has quite an unpleasant rep with archaeologists apparently he is very egotistical and dislikes his past association with Baldrick, he has been known to fly off the handle with people who bring it up.

[Condi]

LeadFarmer said:

YES

Or Prof Suzannah Lipscomb

Or a combo? Have they ever presented together?

I'm pretty sure they have. Can't remember what on, but maybe some BBC "dangers of...." whatever age it might have been. Had to have a long lie down.



Ref Time Team - really glad it's back. Proper reality TV, not like "made up" reality TV. By all accounts Tony Robinson was a bit of an arse when filming though, at least towards the end of its life. Wanted to turn up for an hour or 2, shoot some footage, leave again. Wasn't prepared to get dirty and involved. I guess that can be excused, but always coloured my view of him somewhat.

EDIT - Have they got a TV contract for this, or is just to be released on Youtube and similar? Be a shame if Ch4 or BBC didn't pick it up and give them a proper audience.

Edited by Condi on Monday 22 March 11:53

[Leithen]

warch said:

Leithen said:

What's the view on TT from within the Archaeology world?

I’ve been a archaeologist for about twenty years. I quite like watching the show myself but I don’t think I’d want to appear on the show, archaeology is full of wannabe tv presenters and competing egos so it’d be a fairly joyless experience.

Tony Robinson has quite an unpleasant rep with archaeologists apparently he is very egotistical and dislikes his past association with Baldrick, he has been known to fly off the handle with people who bring it up.

That must have ruled out more than a few cunning plans for additional trenches then...

Thank you for the insight - have any TT sites been in similar areas to your own?

[anonymous-user]

eccles said:

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!

Pretty much sums up my memories by the end.

I do remember the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector episode being pretty epic.

[warch]

Leithen said:

warch said:

Leithen said:

What's the view on TT from within the Archaeology world?

I’ve been a archaeologist for about twenty years. I quite like watching the show myself but I don’t think I’d want to appear on the show, archaeology is full of wannabe tv presenters and competing egos so it’d be a fairly joyless experience.

Tony Robinson has quite an unpleasant rep with archaeologists apparently he is very egotistical and dislikes his past association with Baldrick, he has been known to fly off the handle with people who bring it up.

That must have ruled out more than a few cunning plans for additional trenches then...

Thank you for the insight - have any TT sites been in similar areas to your own?

Yes quite a few. I did a site in Ffrith in Denbighshire I think where Time Team had failed to find any trace of Offa’s Dyke. We however did found the dyke, which was nice.

The filming of Time Team is quite honest in many respects the timescales are true to life and do reflect how rapidly modern fieldwork is carried out.

[Triumph Man]

LeadFarmer said:

808 Estate said:

They should get Alice to host it.

Edited by LeadFarmer on Sunday 14th March 11:27

There's only one person with long blonde hair I want to see on Time Team

[FourWheelDrift]

Roman Villa dig starting this week.

https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/heritage-and-ret...

[FourWheelDrift]

[FourWheelDrift]

First new episodes coming on Friday, Saturday & Sunday on youtube - https://twitter.com/thetimeteam/status/16386242989...

[Big Stevie]

FourWheelDrift said:

First new episodes coming on Friday, Saturday & Sunday on youtube - https://twitter.com/thetimeteam/status/16386242989...

Thanks, I will enjoy watching those.

I listened to Tony Robinsons audio book last year, quite good it was too. He's lead a more interesting life than I anticipated, with both lucky and unlucky breaks in the world of acting, unexpected success in politics etc.

Edited by Big Stevie on Wednesday 22 March 19:55

[Evoluzione]

I'm quite surprised this is deemed not good enough for TV

You can actually go and join in with organised digs, I went on one last year. My god it was dull though, I got more out of chatting to the people there than the actual dig.

[jet_noise]

Evoluzione said:

I'm quite surprised this is deemed not good enough for TV

You can actually go and join in with organised digs, I went on one last year. My god it was dull though, I got more out of chatting to the people there than the actual dig.

I joined a dig as part of school filling the time 'twixt O levels and summer holidays, 1973. Horton Kirby Roman villa, we did the granary.

Hugely enjoyable, had my first ever pint, female girls were on the dig too. Which was nice
I can't remember how long we spent, a couple of weeks at least. From taking the topsoil off, discovering walls and finds. Processing the finds.

Jumpers for goalposts probably