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Time Team. It's one of my all-time favorite TV shows. It was (and sort of is) a British archaeology TV show where real archaeologists have three days to uncover information about a site, usually in Britain. It was on for over 20 years. Most of the episodes are on YouTube.
AND YET I CAN'T FIND ANYONE TO TALK ABOUT IT WITH!
Could you link some of your favourite episodes? I'd love to check it out!
Too many to pick from, but here's a couple of good ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynk2xRM1mnM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v76SowXuDgg
That was fascinating, thanks for sharing! Or should I say sensational :D
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I met someone who worked as a tour guide at a site that Time Team did an episode on. They told me a couple of interesting things about behind the scenes stuff, it might spoil it for you if I spill though.
It's up to you. I'd be interested.
Ok so there was a dig being carried out already before Time Team visited, and they'd made a few interesting finds. Time Team asked them to put one of them back in the ground, and cover it up, and then they would film one of the Time Team guys 'finding' it. The site crew absolutely refused to fake something and for a TV presenter to take the credit for the find of one of their people (who may well have been a volunteer, I don't remember, but difs tend to rely on volunteers for a lot of work), and they were all pretty disillusioned with the show after that. Also, apparently Tony Robinson was a twat, really rude and shitty to everyone, which is a real shame, because I loved him in Maid Marion and Blackadder when I was younger.
This was the site, in case you're interested: https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/ten-fascinating-facts-about-liverpools-old-dock
Ah, that sucks. Still a fun show though.
Wow fuck that's a blast from the past. I used to watch that years ago. I think it was on discovery over here
It was canceled in 2014. There are three or four new episodes on YouTube they funded through Patreon, but they don't have Tony or Phil in them (and Mick has sadly passed away), so they're less fun.
But like I said, almost all the old episodes are on YouTube too.