The Demise of Time team.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.guardian.c...9/channel-4-time-team

Will anyone really miss this show?

Two to three days to find what they are looking for, which generally turns out to be a few tiles, pieces of broken pottery, (which by the wonders of computer graphics turn into what the vessel once looked like), a few building foundations, or even different coloured earth, which we all know is where post holes once had been.

Then there are the characters, that guy Phil in the sweat stained bush hat (who incidentally seems to do all the hard work), Brummie Mick Aston in his multi-coloured knitted garments and seriously in need of a hair-cut, that Geo-phys guy with his mobile box of tricks, and finely our own Tony Robinson, who doesn't do anything really, except jumping in and out of trenches looking and sounding very excited for some reason.

I think it would be more interesting to see a load of guys digging in a land-fill site, so as to dig up a few modern day treasures.

[boxtops]

I will miss it hugely, it inspired my interest in archaeology and made me appreciate how much history is lying literally under our feet. I think it's a sad loss to TV. Mick and Phil and Helen etc are university academics, it was a privilege to have them all come together in one programme.

[Hopkirk]

Don't worry, it will be played endlessly for years on one of the lesser channels.

[Mick-Talbot]

No....they almost talk as much botox about a piece of mud, as Noel Edmonds does about a red bleeding box.

[MarkRae]

I haven't watched it for years. It just seemed that every episode was identical, a bit like "Most Haunted"...

[Hopkirk]

Oh, and by the way, Mick Aston left the show some time ago.

[boxtops]

He did indeed, hopkirk, claiming that the show has become dumbed down. Better that it goes now (well, 2014) than it staggers on into old age.

[Mick-Talbot]

Hopkirk

Oh, and by the way, Mick Aston left the show some time ago.



That was pivotal in my decision to stop watching it, Hopkirk.

[Mick-Talbot]

(A little Noel Edmonds quip there)



Boxy........ do you want to get me coat?