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Time Team
''Time Team'' is a British television programme that originally aired on Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014. It returned online in 2022 for two episodes released on YouTube. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode featured a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in lay terms. The specialists changed throughout the programme's run, although it consistently included professional archaeologists such as Mick Aston, Carenza Lewis, Francis Pryor and Phil Harding. The sites excavated ranged in date from the Palaeolithic to the Second World War. In October 2012, Channel 4 announced that the final series would be broadcast in 2013. Series 20 was screened from January–March 2013 and nine specials were screened between May 2013 and September 2014. In May 2021, Taylor announced the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Harding (archaeologist)
Philip Harding DL FSA (born 25 January 1950) is a British field archaeologist. He became a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series ''Time Team''. Harding trained on various excavations with the Bristol University Extra Mural Department and other bodies from 1966; he has been a professional archaeologist since 1971. Life and career Early life Born in Oxford on 25 January 1950 and brought up in Wexcombe, Wiltshire, Harding was educated at Marlborough Royal Free Grammar School in Marlborough. As a young boy, he became fascinated with the Stone Age. He learned flint-knapping from his uncle, Fred, and in only a few months became a skilled knapper, crafting many different hunting tools from pieces of flint. He made his first archaeological finds digging up his parents' garden, much to the annoyance of his mother, Elsie. In 1966, while still at school, he attended a training excavation by Bristol University Extra Mural Department in Fyfield and West Overton. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Taylor (producer)
Professor Timothy Taylor is a British television producer best known for his work as the originator and producer of Channel 4's popular archaeology series ''Time Team''. He is an Executive Producer for ''Time Team America''. Taylor spent five years teaching, including two years VSO in Thailand, after completing a degree at the University of Birmingham and a PGCE at the University of Exeter. On leaving teaching he set up a company which specialised in producing educational programmes for schools. Today, Taylor is an independent writer and producer of archaeology programmes. He devised the format for Channel 4's ''Time Team'',Taylor on the Unofficial Time Team website which was developed from an earlier Channel 4 series '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Bush
Robin James Edwin Bush (12 March 1943 – 22 June 2010) was the resident historian for the first nine series of Channel 4's archaeology series ''Time Team'', appearing in 39 episodes between 1994 and 2003. He also presented eight episodes of '' Time Team Extra'' in 1998. For twelve years Bush was a Liberal Democrat member of Somerset County Council and served as chairman of the council from 2001 until 2005. He also held other positions in public life. Early life Bush was born in Hayes, Middlesex. His father was originally a schoolmaster and then a training college lecturer in Mathematics. Bush attended Exeter School in Devon between 1950 and 1962, and it was here aged 13 that he first became interested in historical research while studying the school's history. His first two research papers were published by the Devonshire Association before he left school. He won a Trevelyan Scholarship, followed by a Stapledon Exhibition and later still a State Scholarship, to read Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Team America
''Time Team America'' is an American television series that airs on PBS. It premiered on July 8, 2009. It is an Oregon Public Broadcasting adaptation of the British show ''Time Team'', produced in collaboration with Channel 4, which commissioned the original show, in which a team of archeologists and other experts are given 72 hours to excavate an historic site. The U.S. version features "freelance and university-affiliated experts homostly join existing excavations ... ndarrive with resources that the archaeologists already on the case usually can’t afford and specific questions that, if answered, will advance the understanding of the site." A second season was announced on October 18, 2011, scheduled to shoot during the summer of 2012 and to air in 2013. On December 20, 2011, PBS announced that Justine Shapiro would host the second season. Episodes When PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Team Digs
''Time Team Digs'' is a British television series that aired on Channel 4 in 2002. Presented by the actor Tony Robinson, the show is a spin-off of the archaeology series ''Time Team'', that first aired on Channel 4 in 1994. It is also known as ''Time Team Digs: A History of Britain''. ''Time Team Digs'' is an eight-part series including highlights from previous ''Time Team'' digs, with each episode focusing on a particular period in history, going from the Bronze Age to the modern day. Production and cast The series producer of ''Time Team Digs'' was Tim Taylor, the creator and producer of ''Time Team'' and its predecessor ''Time Signs''. The executive producer was Philip Clarke and the producers were Jeremy Cross and Laurence Vulliamy. Tony Robinson, the presenter, was also the associate producer. Regular contributors on Time Team included: archaeologists Mick Aston, Phil Harding, Carenza Lewis, Neil Holbrook; Robin Bush (historian); Victor Ambrus (illustrator); Stewart Ains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Hunters
''History Hunters'' is a British television series that aired on Channel 4 from 1998 to 1999. Presented by the actor Tony Robinson, the show was a spin-off of the archaeology series ''Time Team'', first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1994. The series is also known as ''Time Team: History Hunters''. Each episode of ''History Hunters'' featured people trying to discover more about an area and its history. Production The programme's producer was Tim Taylor, the creator of '' Time Signs'' and executive producer of ''Time Team''. Episodes There were seven episodes of ''History Hunters'' shown on Saturdays from 21 November 1998 to 16 January 1999. Each episode features three teams trying to investigate the history of a community by using resources that are available to anyone. The teams have only two days to find out as much as they can. They have the help of a team of experts. The episode looking at malting in Marshfield, South Gloucestershire was shot as the pilot in February 1998, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Team Extra
''Time Team Extra'' is a British television series that aired on Channel 4 in 1998. Presented by Robin Bush, it was a companion programme to the archaeology series ''Time Team'', that first aired on Channel 4 in 1994. ''Time Team Extra'' is an eight-part series, with each episode accompanying an episode of ''Time Teams fifth series. The episodes looked more into the history of the site being excavated. Production The location footage for the series was filmed across the UK and Ireland, including Hampton Court Palace, Jorvik Viking Centre, Stonehenge and Mellifont Abbey. The interviews with the guest were filmed at Hughenden Manor in Buckinghamshire, in the library of Benjamin Disraeli. Episodes Each episode of ''Time Team Extra'' is thirty minutes long and originally aired from 11 January to 8 March 1998 on Channel 4. In each episode, historian Robin Bush and a guest look back at the week before's ''Time Team'' episode. ''Time Teams fifth series aired from 4 January to 1 Marc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Signs
''Time Signs'' is a British television series that aired on Channel 4 in 1991. Presented by Mick Aston, the series tells the story of a Devon valley throughout history. Phil Harding does some reconstruction archaeology. The series was narrated by Ray Brooks. ''Time Signs'' was later developed into ''Time Team'', the long-running archaeology television programme that aired from 1994 to 2014. ''Time Team'' has the same producer and also features Mick Aston and Phil Harding. Production ''Time Signs'' was created in 1988 when producer Tim Taylor asked Mick Aston to present ''Time Signs'', a history and archaeology series that tells the story of Wolf Valley in Devon. Aston asked archaeologist Phil Harding to do some reconstruction archaeology. ''Time Signs'' was filmed at what is now the Roadford Reservoir in Devon. Episodes The four thirty-minute episodes aired from 30 June to 21 July 1991 on Channel 4. The series works back from the modern day to prehistoric times Preh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Time Team Episodes
The following is a list of episodes of ''Time Team'', a British television programme about archaeology, that has aired on Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service ... since 16 January 1994. , accessed 31 December 2014 The twentieth series started on 11 November 2012, with its final episode broadcast on 10 March 2013. Nine further specials (essentially an irregularly scheduled twenty-first series) aired through 2013 and 2014. The episode numbers follow the order of first transmission. Episodes |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
