Time Team

[dotty.]

Is it me, or is there an ever increasing sense of 'the king's new clothes' with this series. I've been watching it too long I think.

[EvianBaby]

They never find anything that someone else before them didn't already find. Then they pick up a 2cm rock and somehow create a whole village from it. It drives me potty. (I'm sometimes forced to watch it with pops)

[dotty.]

I know what you mean, I've been watching it since it started and increasingly it is disapointing in that I get the value of the finds, but they leap ahead to create a result.

[annadomino]

A crew of anal dipsticks

[Mattk]

...but as they would tell you finding nothing is sometimes as important as finding what they expected as that particular theory can be ruled out.

[DSJ]

If you don't enjoy the programme, why watch it?

[Ratty2E]

I used to watch it many years ago but the novelty soon wore off. It was the same with Most Haunted it's pretty much a case of 'nothing to see here' really.

[Mosaic]

I'd like to remark how gratuitously unpleasant Annadomino's remark is, irrespective of her views on this programmes quality.

Which is the subject of Dotty's post - and in reply, yes, I think I agree broadly that the format has run its course. I think it has played an excellent role over the years - engaging people and forcing professionals to raise their game in terms of explaining their finds and making archaeological reports at least readable.
But it's like many TV milk-cows - they get tired - and many other brilliant history and archaeology programmes are around.