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Returning: Time Team

This marks the final series for Tony Robinson and the team.

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2013-05-12_2225There’s always been a loyal following for the long-running Time Team series from the UK.

But, failing talk of some possible specials, this marks the final series for Tony Robinson and the team.

Archaeology isn’t just about digging up the mysterious remains of the long dead.  It can reveal how we used to live in amazing detail.

Tony Robinson and the team explore more fascinating sites and uncover their hidden secrets in this new 10-part series.  They focus on one archaeological dig in every episode with the locations for the digs chosen by the team from suggestions by viewers in the U.K. as to where there might be an archaeological mystery.

The team have three days to dig, research and reveal, excavating everything from Palaeolithic remains to oddities from the much more recent past. Illuminating CGI and the advice of experts bring the past to life as the dig unfolds items buried for hundreds, maybe thousands of years.

In this series Tony and the team uncover the mysteries of their largest ever range and undertake their most ambitious geophysics project to date. They head to the Lake District on an expedition that takes them both higher and deeper than they’ve dug before; they investigate a huge hill near Cardiff that may be immensely significant; and they help charismatic Hektor Rous, the son of ‘Aussie Earl’ Keith Rous, piece together the mysterious history of the family’s Tudor country home in Suffolk.

6pm Monday May 13 and continuing weeknights on ABC1.

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  3. The ABC stripped the last series of Time Team have been doing the same thing with Grand Designs and other shows.

    The advantage is that people know that Time Team/Miniscule/The News are on every weeknight on the ABC and will get in the habit of watching them whenever they are home. Instead of remembering Time Team is on Tuesday, Grand Designs is on Thursday etc.

    With Time Team and the Giro Highlights on SBS2 at 6pm it means my HDR is going to be very busy for a few weeks.

  4. I don’t understand why they’re showing it every night. Why burn up the final series of a high quality program in a couple of weeks? Is there some contractual restriction at play?

    In the past it’s always been Monday or Tuesday night alone, which was just fine. Some of us might like to savour what’s left, not squander it.

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