Time team to become worth watching?

[Pogle]

Terrible news - If Phil Harding goes too, that'll be pretty much the end for Time Team

Why can't these effing producers leave things alone?

WOHS

[TimberWolf]

Awful, no pictures of Mary-Ann Ochota at all.

Here's a pic to make up for the lack of a proper Daily Mail citation and the absence of rectification by the OP



[She's the one to the right of the miserable old fart]

[TimberWolf]

About time he visited the barbers:



How come it's wrong for a woman with an MSc in archaeology to present and yet is okay to have Baldrick as apprentice dogsbody? Maybe she needs a cunning plan.

[MrRobin]

Well, now she's quit too.

[OwlHoot]

Look forward to more dumbing down. ...

How can a program like Time Team be dumbed down anyway?

Not saying it's dumb already, far from it. But as an avid fan for years, I've never seen anything that could be described as baffling or counter-intuitive or even the slightest bit challenging. It's all clearly explained common sense.

Also, you could never even describe it as slow - They keep up a cracking pace, and usually have all kinds of secondary related activities on the go like building a celtic mud hut or forging a sword etc.

I mean what extra bit of dumbness, or dumber quality, could they somehow impart, short of deliberately burying bits of broken pots and odds and ends and challenging the archaeologists to find the real thing among them (and even that has been done, when the team excavated a site that turned out to be a Victorian fake!)