Has Time Team Been Axed?

[Siamese Girl]

Even if the programmes have got more and more formulated as the years have rolled on, it's still an enjoyable hour of TV viewing and I shall be watching when the new series finally arrives.

Carole

[MarieC]

Well, we get it in Australia and I really enjoy it!  Even if it is "set up", it's still interesting and informative.  I'm hoping we will get more of it here soon.

MarieC

[Redroger]

I know from a distant relative in the USA that Time Team is popular there too!

[Mark1973]

Although the programme isn't perfect, it's far better than most of the rubbish that one sees on the box nowadays - especially celeb based programmes.

WDYTYA isn't that bad lol

[Llwyd]

I've never watched the programme since, it was all so false and set up.

Lizzie

Lizzie, I'm not quite sure what you expected.

When finished, T.V. programmes, even factual ones, look nothing like the actual making of the programme. There is all the editing, setting up of the scenes/takes etc. to give the viewer the finished article. I'm sure even the programmes David Attenborough makes look false and set up when they are being made.

T.T. wouldn't be worth watching if they showed it as it is when being made. It would appear contrived, slow and, well, boring. The idea is to entertain, so sit back and enjoy.!

Funny this should come up as I was wondering where T.T. had got to. Plenty of repeats shown on Saturday mornings on one of the Freeview channels.
 

[Ringoroses]

Time Team is partly responsible for honing and nurturing my latent interest in history and all things old - including genealogy! - something they couldn't manage the whole time I was at school, where often it seemed we learned about nothing but dead kings and queens and WWII ! I've watched it since the early days, many moons ago and will continue to watch until Phil gets bored with flint!

It's edutainment (and on Channel 4 at that - hardly known for their fact based documentaries  ) which is why lovely Baldrick/Tony front's it rather than some stuffy droning egghead from Exeter University. 

[Ringoroses]

PS And my kids love it too - and there's not many programmes we can agree on these days!

[newburychap]

Time Team can be interesting, though the sites they investigate often turn up little in the way of finds.  The best one from my viewpoint was Hylton Castle in Sunderland, where my great great grandfather lived - nice to see a bit of one's family history on TV. My great great uncle left a few paragraphs on his life as a child growing up in a real castle.

[LizzieW]

I think I meant by false and set up, that even though they could have filmed the very few finds as and when they were found, they almost had to set the scene and get Tony Robinson to rush around unnecessarily. 

The other thing that astounded me were the number of young things walking around with clipboards under their arms, apparently doing nothing.  I'm sure they were all very important, but I didn't see them doing anything.

Lizzie