Time Team S19-E02 A Village Affair
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- There's a problem in the chocolate-box village of Bitterley in Shropshire. The village's school and cottages cluster prettily around the green. But the village church and the manor house lie more than half a mile away, on the other side of a lumpy, bumpy empty field.
The villagers, led by energetic community archaeology group leader June Buckard, have been exploring the field and believe that their village used to be much bigger, with the field full of houses and streets. They have called in Tony Robinson and the Team to see if they're right.
But they're not expecting the professionals to do all the work. Half the village turn out, ready to dig test pits in their gardens and in any spare piece of land they can get on to. Trenches appear almost hourly in gardens, from the smallest cottage to the grand manor house lawns.
And it takes every hour of the three days for the villagers to get their answer. But judging by how much they seemed to enjoy it, they're probably still out there digging anyway!
No disrespect to Alex, but Stewart and landscapes have whole conversations with each other.
Indeed
Looks as though he is struggling. Not good.
I like Alex, but he's no Stuart
I love Stewart, Helen, Carenza, Raksha & Matt not to mention Phil and Mick. That's the line-up for the best of the episodes.
I thought that Alex did a good job of explaining what he and his co-worker found and the conclusions they came to. Stuart was not perfect in the early episodes of TT and had to develop his commentary chat. TV is not like lecturing where long pauses, coughs and sneezes etc. are easily tolerated.
They should have given more prominent roles to Raksha and Matt and Rachel and Faye instead of bringing in newbies.
Mary Ann contributes literally nothing to the show, and as for Alex replacing Stewart, its almost as though they did not need to find anyone with such an affinity with the earth as Stewart had since technology was translating the land for them, Alex simply filled a role for formalities sake :/
It’s my dream to have a pint with Phil
Thank you for posting these, I have never seen this show before.
Serious question: Why would a village of this age and population NEVER have had a pub, as Tony said? There are villages in the UK with less than 300 inhabitants and two pubs.
Finally! @ 15:33 someone (thankyou Mick) puts that cheeky Robinson in his place.
You may forget they're friends and that was for fun please relax 😊
I learned something! A pottage can be a perpetual stew, which never loses its heat and never goes empty. Whatever you have goes in! Just like my stews, except for the oats and the perpetual part.
Nearly too difficult to watch, with many people I can't stand to watch; Prof. Mick Aston had it right - they effed up Time Team. Getting rid of Stewart was the second dumbest thing they ever did, and and alienating Prof. Aston was the first. What a mess. I'm surprised it lasted into Season 20.
The fool the replaced Stewart with is a ninny...
And moving production from London to South Wales, they lost the majority of the production crew, too.
I am watching it and it's fine. I don't know Alex is? Aside from that
Who's this new Alex kid looking at landscapes? Where is Stewart?? I'm uncomfortable now!
***** Oh wow hey, *thank you* for all the info on his background! My comment was kinda more of a joke about missing Stewart than really asking who Alex is, but your answer is way better than my sarcasm!
+schradeya Seems like they're trying to "sex up" the show with Mary Ann for the lads and Alex for the girls!
+Barnaby ap Robert I thought that. Lots of cleavage from the ladies in this series.
The usual characters left because of the way the progarmme was changing, Mick and Francis did I believe, maybe Stuart did?. I heard that channel 4 wanted a more 'sexy' , modern image, so brought in Alex (who clearly knew his stuff about landscape archaeology) but the otherwise unknown Mary Ann Ohota (never seen since) doesn't ask a single pertinent question....I have heard more pertinent questions asked by 7 year old schoolchildren on a dig. She was just a 'dolly bird' side kick to Tony, to give whatever (nothing basically) to the programme.
+BoSSa mOOd Yeah, I remember reading about all of that, and it was just awful. So sad. I'm not sure if Stewart in particular left for good and all, because I *think* I recall seeing him in something they did a few years after it all ended?
But yeah, IIRC the real greats of the show left, for very good reason, when the producers/studio suits/whoever decided that - even though the show had been extremely successful for such a long time, and even though that success was built on a foundation of being properly educational - the show needed some real dumbing down in order to gain mass appeal, or some bollocks. Really, it started going the way of American edu-tainment, meaning far more emphasis on the "tainment" part, and far less on the "edu" part. And of course, they needed pretty young presenters in tight clothes to... I don't know... lure in the audiences who somehow don't have an interest in the fascinating and genuinely exciting history presented here, or, at the _very least_, the possibility of there being priceless and important historical relics in their very own gardens...?? Sigh, I'll never understand why those decisions were made, and I fully stand on the side of the great minds behind the original format. Oh Mick, you are truly missed.
But I will say Mary Ann contributed a fair bit more than nothing to the programme: lots of tight shirts. Alas.
Wow, another episode that had me laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes...Mick sticking it to Tony!!! And Phil's PUB!!! (The producers would have made me happier without the cleavage...old-fashioned I am.)
Socalist college twerps you mean
Generously endowed barmaids seem to be a longstanding tradition.
Phil: "What looks to me like a piece of roof tile, I'm shore" 40:46 He gives his game away. "It's not pot, and Richard being an expert on matters archi - architectura,l I would like his opinion." Thumb and forefinger holding tightly to the fissure... then 40:57.
Must be great growing up in a village like Bitterly
I love your show's wish you guy's woud do a show in 2018!!! Tony you are cute and funny keep up the good work.
drink a lot more bitterley to figure this out.
Is that the village bike @5:18 ?
Yes they've all been ridden hard and have pasty up manky to skank
I knnnoowww some of these ppl!!!! :D
Think I’ll skip this episode. Why bother without Helen Nd Stewart?
Any harborists watch these? Is that a Giant Sequoia at 26:20? Do they have Sequoias in England?
Giant Sequoias are native to only the western Sierras in California, however British explorers spent a lot of time collecting specimens and bringing them back to the UK. It was vogue for large manor houses to have gardens with 'exotic' plants.
(P.S.- it's arborist)
Mick is looking so sickly here, you can tell his health was getting worst. Very sad to see him suffer for so long, and pass away so early. He will be missed.
He died very suddenly - brain haemorrhage. He had a respiratory disorder for many years, aspergillosis. He wasn't ill at the time of his sudden death, which was it was such a shock.
I do miss Stewart too, but I really miss Helen. She was a font of unpretentious knowledge and always seemed to light up the scene. To get rid of these two for those Bobbsey Twins Alex and Marianne, certainly was a bad decision.
Yes their radical socalist multicultural vomit inducing prescence killed the show literally
I like Maryanne. Alex continues to go unnoticed by me except when he's doing Stewart things.
Mary is not that bad. So far I am not faulting it. As the series goes on really.
big bear fuzzums You summed it up correctly. No wonder Mick walked away from the program.
Helen and Stewart are two of my faves. I feel like without Tony, Phil, Helen, Stewart, Raksha, and Matt together it's just not the same.
In February 2012, it was announced that Aston had left the show due to format changes. The disputed changes included hiring anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota as a co-presenter, dispensing with other archaeologists and what he thought were plans to "cut down the informative stuff about the archaeology".[7][8]"The time had come to leave. I never made any money out of it, but a lot of my soul went into it. I feel really, really angry about it," he told British Archaeology magazine.[7]
I feel very sad with these "new" people. I watch the show every morning and just got to S19.
I don't want to lose the old series. So Sad...
I'm with Mick. Changing the cast was a bad decision.
It was unnecessary and the results speak to the value.
The 2 most endearing people.
Nothing against the the 2 that replaced them, it's a Management mistake.
They’re not ‘cast’ because they’re not actors (except Tony, who’s presenting). They’re part of a team.
@@sgrannie9938 so you think they weren't working to a script?
Oh, honey.
"A village without a pub?" I think they should rename the village from Bitterley to Bitter less.
or bitterley disappointing
Bitterly abstaining to bitters
@@bigbearfuzzums7027 Bitterlynot.
My favorite person in this whole series is------ Ian the digger driver! A very skilled craftsman with his tools and doesn't feel the need to say a word.
Ian looks terrible in this episode, though.
His energy was so endearing in this Series, *"an Archaeologist on a Digger!"*
God bless his Soul eternally! ❤
I wonder if the younger Ian, who is a archeologist and a digger driver, is related to the older Ian🤔
Mary Ann no, Helen Geake is a lot prettier and a hell of a lot smarter.
Each has their own charm. I'm in love with lithe Helen's lovely hair
Mary Ann was annoying and useless
I love it. Phil's reaction to a dry town. And Tony being told he needs medicine to calm down.😂
I wanted to like it, I really did, but with these two new members I don't feel it. Especially Stewart. No ono can do landscape reading like Stewart did. The team was messed up by the producers, and what for? If something works, don't change it.
It's the first rule of any business, isn't it? If everything is great, leave it alone.
The problem for C4 was that the programme was not working and viewers were dropping away left, right and centre. This was not good for the advertisers so management tried to fizz up the content to attract more viewers. I guess that after 20 years there are not so many of us archaeology fans left even though we follow TT here on YT still. There are still lots of 'specials' to watch here and there are off shoots such as Dig Nation and Dig Ventures with videos about our favourite subject.
this episode is the beginning of the end for TT. almost 2 decades of TT with people we all got attached to and like, they f'd themselves changing a great thing. lasted less then half decade after they began to change out our TT family with strangers that had NO chemistry with the rest of the team. they put in people trying to make money at it rather then those who did it to bring archaeology to the people for the sake of the people. they did it for US not for money.
When ratings drop on a commercially produced show like this, the producers are bound to make changes - especially if it's a relatively expensive show to make.. "they put in people trying to make money" No, ALL the participants were compensated and for some (Tony, Phil, John G, Stewart) it was a full time job.
Socalist kill everything they touch including the culture they infect!
@@bigbearfuzzums7027 How is a show that was produced by a commercial TV network, for the purpose of selling advertising time to other commercial entities, socialist?
@@georgedorn1022 It's not. He's probably a fellow American of mine who is a dumbass and thinks anything UK is socialist. Time Team literally has nothing to do with socialism. Don't know what he's on about. Other than being stupid.
Oh, don't be such a misery.
Something is missing in these last two years. I blame the production mostly. But I do miss the regulars like Stewart. Hardly see Matt or Raksha and a few of the others. Two new people aren't the only problems.
I just couldn't watch the last two seasons. Felt lackluster
Did they kick Raksha out too?
I love how Phil is all "what?! what do you mean the village doesn't have a pub?" bhahahah oh Phil!!!
two stones make a wall, two beers make a pub.
Who the hell is this Alex dude?! I need an adult!
As an aside, can i say i really miss Robin. 😢
New guy standing in field pointing at bumps? Bring back Stewart!
They always refer to the nearby children as young archeologists and include them in the episodes.Bravo!
Mary Ann, the kiss of death for TT
I love how much Phil enjoys a good pint. Like every other episode he talks about beer. Love it!
Taylor chose Mary Ann for looks.she was a model with studies in archeology...the right.
Alex is no Stewart...
Tin Taylor according to Mick lost site of real archeology and was pandering to slick t.v.. ...believe Mick was right!!!
I love this episode with all the village pitching in to help discover their own history
+manuelkong10 One of many times this happens and it is definitely nice to see ordinary people taking an interest in the history of their own home.
I had to read the comments to figure this episode out. No geophys, no stewart, no helen, no archaeology except for brief snapshots. I thought they needed to geophys and landscape archaeologist to find out where to dig. What precisely is Alex's job? It feels more like a reality show.
Tony addresses Mick as Michael and Mick says, “Oh, this is like my dad talking now.”
I want to move to a charming, English village. NY isn't all it's cracked up to be.
He may have been ill at this time... but Mick can still put Tony in his place! GOOD ON YA, MICK!
It was scripted. Mick and Tony were always great friends.
It's easy to despise Tony to bolshie to tolerate
The Jayser it’s ok to be great friends but tony should have stopped pretending he knew about archaeology
@@susanhuntley9262 I believe he did the commentator and still dose because he got the Sir stuck to his name
Yes, I know that everyone is commenting about Alex and his contribution to the show, but remember that around this time he was a rising star with the Ruth Goodman immersion Docs, which are quite good.. The producers probably thought he was the perfect person to crossover into TT..
Like Mick ( RIP ), I travelled 20 mi roundtrip for my own favorite buried treasure...petrified wood. I waded over to a small island in a river and searched for half a hour picking up every good candidate.
I took them all to the nearest rock shop where the owner declared each one "a rock", not worth anything. Finally. Bottom of the bag, was a coal black rock the size and shape of my pinky between two knuckles. "Ah! Said he. Petrified wood!". And that's the life of a rockhound.
I miss Stewart but it was Alex Langland and Peter Ginn that brought me to BBC four with their programs of the farm series and the history a Britain. So I'm not sad to see him here, he is a knowledgeable and respected archaeologist.
What the heck did TT do to the show? Why would you add people who are not adding to the show at all. I only found this program about a month ago. I have been binge watching, starting from season one. Season 19 is so different it is unmistakable, almost American, Yikes... No need for two hosts in this show, Tony is great in this role, he doesn’t need any help. If TT does make it back to TV which I do hope they do, bring back the original cast, Please.
they dropped stewart for this
Could not agree more.
Seen a few episodes with Marie-Ann.. Does she do any work?
Well, she cooked dinner in her first episode.
The producers insisted she _dumb down._ She's actually a well-qualified archæologist and has written several books as well as fronted at least one TV show.
alanrtment porter Well let’s not start hiding tits.
Mary Ann did do some digging in this episode and she certainly helped to make Tony brighter in their on screen chats. I thought that Mick found it hard to tolerate her personally as he did not smile much when they were on screen together.
This episode of time team titled " old men find pot in a town without a pub"
This season is like New Coke.
+Bryon Lape There was that nice shot by the camera coming up behind Tracey while she's down on all fours.
@@barnabyaprobert5159 ummm, gross.
@@johnrogers2826Disagree, my friend, disagree.
I do not like the new use of fast-forward film editing. It makes the team look ridiculous - like Keystone Kops.
I think Phil should have been recruited to portray Gaffer Gamgee in 'The Lord of the Rings'. He just comes across as someone who should be a Hobbit.
StutleyConstable phill is awesome
cannot agree at all. Phil is my favorite on this show. if that is a claptrap comment, I am proud of it.
This is what this wonderful show did; it woke folks of all ages up, and got them asking questions about their town history. It encouraged people to be curious, to go have a poke about. I think it made for more respectful renovations. But look at this; most of a village turning out to work on test pits, getting the kids involved, having various experts in to check finds. While it ran, this show was a terrific educator. I'm sorry it had to end the way it did. It would be nice if the BBC could do an archaeology special, with which ever of the old team was available. I liked them, and thought the ladies were great role models for the girls watching.
RIP Mick.
Time Team was on Channel4, never associated with the BBC.
The BBC produce 'Digging For Britain' - usually four episodes a year that show regionally-based round-ups of some of the recent interesting archaeological discoveries. It's not a lot, but better than nothing.
Wish Stewart would drive up, tell them that they’re all stupid, then drive off🤪
That would have been funny 😊
Lol. I thought it was standard for English series to change out their starring actors at the drop of a hat, no matter how popular they are. I know I've had my day completely ruined on a regular basis when tuning in to watch a new episode only to discover one of my favorite characters has been unceremoniously killed off....yet again. I've become rather inured to it. That being said, I quite like Alex but then I saw him in the Farm series before I realised he was on here too; but the new girl seems a bit scatterbrained....although she must be smart enough if she's an archaeologist....
Where the Sam Hill is Stewart???
Love that the village - KIDS- are involved !! Enjoying watch as many of this video's as I can. Thank you.
Good grief! Stewart vs Alex? Should have kept Stewart.
Haha, how appropriate that the 'first' find of episode 02 of series 19 was a coin of 1902
I don't believe I've ever seen Phil so tranquil and quiet.
Bryon Lape I thought the same thing. He's calling out his finds like he is in a library. Hope he's not ill.
Tired. There are several interview videos where he talks about TT (among other things). He probably was as unhappy about the changes as Mick. They were long-time mates.
For me it's those teeth on the, uh, attractive cohostess.It's like looking at a '53 Buick.
I'd add it's like looking at a 2020 Lexus -- flashy with a sneer.
@@egverlander cute a lexus...lol......not her fault. The producers just f 'd up the entire show. I never saw this show 'til last year. So, I didn't know about the drama til I got to season 19,& 20. Wondered where Mick was, ;( ...researched him & was so saddened of what happened and learnt of the rest. I've heard a "saying" most of my lfe, " If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" I've rewatched, binged and found so many other programs from the U.K. I'm in Northern California and fortunately I've missed the fires that surround the town I live in. Many miles away, but the fires are burning through our magnificent Redwoods and famous (infamous? ) vineyards and wineries. The smoke that's 50 miles away must have a ceiling of 20,000 feet. Wow! Stay safe wherever you are and from the C10 Zombie Apocalypse Virus (ZAV...my nickname for it). Plus the UK, Ireland, Wales & Scotland have such a fabulous history I'm never bored watching the shows from from there. Cheers!
@@maeve4686 That was a very quick response! You must be online. So nice to hear from you and your explanation about "...never saw this show 'til last year." is the same as mine. I enjoy all the TT episodes. I am in Long Island, NY.
Most prople probably didn't watch Time Team for the archeology but for the characters in the shows who they watched for years and came to enjoy and love. Then that all changed. Helen was gone replaced by someone with more cleavage than intelligence. They got rid of Mick probably to satisfy the producers and make the show more "modern" with younger people. They dumped Stewart and brought in a no-brainer. Others characters just got fed up with the changes and left. The producers have taken a fine program and ruined it.
*What a beautiful, picturesque, storybook, village! It is a Delicious Feeling Vision.*
... and with *"Phil and his trial" right in the middle of the Story!*
...then it all fades, in the absence of Helen and Stewart.
Why do they screw with "desired perfection"?
Thanks as always Reijer. This will always be one of my all time favorite series!
Hear hear! Huzzah! Bully! Hot sh*t! GOAT!
Lord of the manor 🏰 seems to like the idea of clearing the peasants from view 🙄 ‘it wouldn’t be legal now’.
The last days of a grest show! Stewart went on to do other stuff. I googled him, he looked happy and busy enough. Tony does need to be smacked now and again, but he and Mick were good friends.
Stewart worked (and still does) for English Heritage. One of his EH assignments was to assist TT, so just like John G and Tony, TT was essentially his day job, not an extra curricular activity.
Phil learns why the village is called Bitterly @ (12:30) end of day one. 😺
the guy, working the digger,
he has a skill,!
well, ye wont be able to do it,
without his craft..,xx
should pay thanks to tis digger guy...xx
Shouldn't the church near the field provide some information about an earlier village???
Hope they're not bitterly disappointed >< Tony's face when he says it >
Thanks for posting.
After this episode, Phil quit the team and opened a pub in Bitterly.
😂🍺😂
Again, thanks for posting these. Enjoying them very much. Wish we had something as good to watch currently being produced.
Shocked at how poorly (Ian the senior back hoe operator) looked. He wasn't long for it, sadly.
*It's a shame the Producer made such a definitively Ignorant or Stupid decision.* (No negative intended towards the 2 new cast)
*Definitively Ignorant: unaware of the subject potentials.*
*Definitely Stupid: aware but does it anyway.* ✔
One would assume the latter.
*Helen and Stewart had value and had established part of the Show's Personality, to remove this without cause, on a Grande successful Series, is just "not a wise decision".*
Appreciate there's such a vast number of Shows "with them"!
😘
“It’s time for your medicine, Tony”. Mick’s hilarious 😆!
Mick🌈sweater ✔️
I wonder if we would have loved Alex if he had showed up one or two seasons before under the guidance of Stewart, so that we could get to know him, see his progress under his mentor, and then by this season, we would love Alex on his own. It seems like he really does love his work.
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This series isn't too bad, yet. I thought they all disappeared at series 20. I think the new background music is a bit over the top though. Unless Stewart recommended Alex? Is he with English Heritage?. 14.30 classic Mike line. Makes it all worthwhile lmao "It will be time for your medicine if you go on like that". I love the fact it's not scripted either. Aside from the flaws great episode. Sorry, John has been cut out, DAMN IT......42 minutes in, that's not fair.
Oh come on Tony, theres two pubs in Clee Hill and thats only a short walk away you cruel man, lol
This must be Phils idea of hell. perfect weather, great dig, but no pub at the end of the day.
Tell Alex go away
somebody like phil lived there in the early days, and he complained Bitterley all the time, so the tax collector called the place, the place were i get the most ear ache so the map maker called it Bitterley, so, nothing to do with the english drink of the same name ?
I bet Phil knew from the start there wasn't a pub in the village and that little exchange was just him and Tony taking a moment to have some fun.
First thing I would have looked for😊😊😊
my goodness, just noticed Mick is drinking beer not wine
I would have loved them to have found 3 Bitterley's. Upper Bitterley, Lower Bitterley and Neither Bitterley....similar to Upper Hayford, Lower Hayford and Neither Hayford! Just hate Ochoa.
18:06 Should have just said "Well, the cameraman got in somehow."
Mick was sick and soon to die. Tony isn't as young as he once was. Mary Ann could, had she been given time to learn how, have become the female counter part to Tony.
Finding a replacement for Mick would be nearly impossible.
Which is sad. Properly managed the show could have gone on forever. But they never really gave the younger folks a chance to develop presenter skills to be able to carry the show forward.
Some shows manage that, antiques road show comes to mind. Must don't. The producer needs to think about it early.
Celto Loco The viewing figures had gone down quite substantially though, and TV producers on commercial channels don't like that. The BBC can dump Clarkson and kill off Top Gear because of the licence fee, although for how much longer is open to question..
Celto Loco
You could be right, I can't remember the last time I sat in front of a TV and watched anything, other than a sports event in a bar. The days when you could talk about a TV show with everybody at work have disappeared, even the things that win tons of awards and get huge media coverage like The Wire or Mad Men were only actually watched by tiny audiences.
Who wants a show taken over by vomit inducing socalists scum!
I think the problem was the role they assigned her. It was rather mindless. She was mostly to be eye-candy and ask rather simple questions on their instructions. If Mary Ann could do better as presenter on her own initiative using her knowledge she was never given the chance. Tony at least from the start used all his years of experience of working in TV and such to craft his own role he thought would work for him and the show. The funny thing is Tony probably had a much better sense than the producer in what would actually interest your average person to a show like TT. And people wouldn't be watching TT just to see some attractive women in tight clothes or younger looking guy. They watched for the history first and foremost. They switched out a lot of people who contributed to that history and replaced it with fluff. Mary Ann and Alex brought nothing to the show, and certainly could not replace those that left. However qualified they may have been in other regards.
If the houses were waddle and dob how much would be left? Any one know? The manor where my family came from there was a village with a manor house. pub. market and church. There were hamlets of just houses spread all over the place.
Depends on how acidic the soil is also the moisture content. I've seen them pull chunks of dub out of trenches in the past, but it's pretty rare.
Oddly, the remains of wattle and daub buildings often survive best if they burnt down. Charcoal and heat-baked daub do not break down as easily in the ground.
People ate mean towards new people so sad.
They themselves would have and will do much worse.
Please be nice 😊
But as good Mick may has been, Time Team wasn't his baby. So you have to tell all your missunderstanding to Tim Taylor or better to Channel4 who erected or payed for this show.. That for the first. Next would be that anyone who now speeks against the new type of TimeTeam should have done this (and I think many did) to Channel4. As I have heard Time Team hardly was advertised by Channel4 so that in 20 years time.the number of spectators sank. But I don't want to give only the missimng advertising the fault but twenty years of time are also including a renewal and development of archaeology which had not been payed tribute to by the makers and the crew members. And as I must say, the seletion of digging places in earlier series had been much better. I am nearly through with TimeTeam episodes only a few left to view. But with the time rolling on there are more places with nearly no result than in earlier phaes. And so on and so on.
A fieldarchaeologist
Actually, Time Team WAS his baby - he and Tim Taylor came up with the concept.
Partly his one. But money comes from elsewhere. But nevertheless he shouldn't have acted like he did when nearly everything was changed. Not saying "I'm going . . .", but "let us talk about your changes". He should have been upen minded and not the that concrete wall minded behavior.
***** Mick and all the people he recruited for Time Team were Professors and professional archaeologists and historians. The studio brought in a bunch of young people whose claim to fame was their shiny young face (no expertise) or a Kellog's commercial and big tits. Dr. Mick Aston spent his life making archeology accessible to children, amateurs, and viewers without compromising the integrity of the discipline (look at his books). He had every right and was reasonable to walk away from the project when he became surrounded by sensationalizing, overly-emotional, reality-TV garbage. The camera work, the music, the recording, the focus on minor and trivial jokes and personalities rather than science and history killed the experience. As a viewer, I agree, it killed Time Team.
+Celto Loco I keep reading how Alex has been an Archaeologist for 30+ years and I wonder where did you get that information. He was born in 1978 which makes him 36/37 years old . He really must be a genius if he graduated in Archaeologist when he was 6 or 7.
+Celto Loco No, of course not, and he had the television experience too, but it is a big difference to have Stuart's experience on the field or any of the other members of this team who had 5, 10 or 20 years doing this show in this specific format than to have experience making ( good) shows about historical farming .Anyway I was just pointing out that the information was wrong and I am sorry but no matter how talented one is , experience is a great part of knowledge . Besides, I don't think Alex or the woman had much fault for how wrong and bad the show became, but these episodes are hard for me to watch, little archaeology little no none historical information and that was what , for me, made this show so entertaining and fun to watch. Stuart, Helen and Victor were important and taking them just ruined everything.
What's this estate box all about? Keep all your house documents in a fireproof box?
Village without a pub? why dig it?
I loathe how every comment section for season 19 and 20 episodes are dominated by sexist pigs throwing their weight around about Mary-Ann! She is ridiculously clever! she has a degree in anthropology and has published various books (that I own) on archaeology. 'Hidden Landscapes' is an absolute gem and I've learnt so much from it. I agree they shouldn't of dumped Stewart as he was golden and they should focus more on the actual digging and archaeology ... this is in no way her fault? She got given a bad role to preform but she is very clever so please please please stop putting her down, it's very unfair.
Fair enough. Although she accepted the "role" and was not clever enough to see the archeology on her reputation.
Thanks once again for sharing these episodes,some of my ancestors hailed from Oswestry,Shropshire,and it's wonderful to see some of the land thereabouts.
Finally a time Team about Bitterley, the village of my ancestors! I was able to trace my great great great great great great great great great grandfather to a farm there in the 1660s, but records before that don't seem to exist any longer.
It's unfortunate the Helen and Stuart are no longer part of the series. The were both fun and contributed a lot to the content.
It must be a tough spot to be in for the producer: how to keep the show fresh with characters that have been on for a long time (and thus risk creating a sense of boredom on the part of the viewer), versus getting new “talent” and thus risking the ire of the viewers by adding change.
BTW, I wonder if that pottery expert (Debbie Klemperer) is related to Werner Klemperer (the commandant from Hogan's Heroes).
Don't like Mary-Ann 1 little bit.. :(
hallets1956 Agree due to her lack of knowledge about the subject, etc. Also, her male counterpart, Alex, could learn to be respectful and remove his hat when inside. Or has etiquette changed? His lack of knowledge of archaeology appears to be the same as his female counterpart, whatever her credentials may consist of, apart from superficial smiles, etc. What happened to Stewart and John?
Wotdermatter Alex appears to believe he is a hotshot in the hat. It would
not occur to him to remove his hat out of respect when he is indoors because
it would compromise his dashing appearance.
"due to her lack of knowledge about the subject"
Sod off. Her degree is in archaeology & anthropology.
"His lack of knowledge of archaeology"
Fuck off. His first degree is in mediaeval archaeology. His second one is in world archaeology.
www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/artshumanities/hc/alexlanglands/#accept
Get your head out of your arse.
David..If you are at all familiar with academics then you should know that having a degree can have very little to do with how much knowledge one has...
What happened with the hand made trowel?