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bat400
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|  Posted 09-04-2008 at 18:12
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"Time Team to be made in the USA!
A US version of Time Team is imminent thanks to a collaboration between Channel 4 International and American public broadcaster PBS. Now, we all know that the Americans like to do things bigger and with a bit more pizazz, so what can we expect? Well, for a start, Tony Robinson will go out the window and in with Dog The Bounty Hunter. Also, I can't imagine much call for little brushes and trowels. Nope. This version will have huge diggers, monster trucks, fireworks, laser beams and atomic explosives. This is archeology writ big. Of course, the US remix won't piddle about unearthing ancient latrines in Glossop, but rather, places like Oregon's Skull Creek Dune and Death Hammer Hernia Ridge in... okay... I made the last one up.
The show will go to air next year or in 2010 and the brains behind the (very successful) show, Tim Taylor, says: "C4i has done a fantastic job in taking the show to international audiences and Time Team on prime-time US television is a real and exciting breakthrough for us. In the US there are an amazing number of archaeological mysteries waiting to be solved and the archaeological heritage is richer than many would guess."
Fans of the show, brace yourself for dramatic synth-orchestrations in the incidental music, stern voices overs and bombarding information on the screen at all times. Basically, I basing this imagined vision of Time Team USA on the American re-hashes of Supernanny, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and Beauty and the Geek. Still, I reckon I'm right."
Still, I reckon he's a ninny.
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Aluta
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| Posted 09-04-2008 at 22:31
This will probably be a really bad show, BUT it might be a chance for some topics to become "new, amazing breakthroughs." Shows like this hunger for discoveries like things that have been under everyone's nose all the time and never noticed. The eastern stonework could have a shot!
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| Posted 10-04-2008 at 02:01
Actually UK Time Team seem to go pretty heavy on the mechanical diggers at times. They have done a dig in the USA a few years ago (Maryland I think it was) and I seem to remember the US archaeologists found the Time Team rather gung ho. The US archaeologists wanted to go much more carefully, sieving everything down to the minutest sand grain. Presumably as there is sometimes much less to see of a site.
Should be good to get better recognition of archaeology and site protection which seems sadly lacking in some areas. I think it was Frances Prior who said recently that in the days before Time Team, when working in a public place, passers by would think he was very strange digging away, now they ask when he's getting the 'geofizz' in.
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BERNARDQUATERMASS
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| Posted 10-04-2008 at 04:24
Andy B wrote.............
Actually UK Time Team seem to go pretty heavy on the mechanical diggers at times. They have done a dig in the USA a few years ago (Maryland I think it was) and I seem to remember the US archaeologists found the Time Team rather gung ho. The US archaeologists wanted to go much more carefully, sieving everything down to the minutest sand grain. Presumably as there is sometimes much less to see of a site.
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I think it was Jamestown, the first English settlement in America.
As you say the local archaeologists seemed to almost regard the site as sacred, and our lot seemed to go at it like a bull at a gate.
The disinterring of the dead showed a cultural difference, with the Time Team crew not feeling comfortable with such recent burials. I think someone remarked that many British cemeteries of the same date are still in use.
Still, the trip across the pond was worthwhile, with the discovery of an unknown building.
I look forward to seeing the program, if it makes it over here.
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| Posted 10-04-2008 at 14:07
In general, PBS productions are far more focused on science than those of the majority of other networks and most cable offerings. (Although some shows aren't above hyperbole, particularly in the intros and advertising of the show. Nova is occasionally guilty of presenting "stunning new discoveries" that aren't at all new to even a layman interested in the field - but may be new to the average viewer.)
Since this project sounds like a US version as opposed to "Time Team in America", its a little hard to say what they will focus on. I'd prefer to see a pre-history focus for at least part of the shows, but I think the use of historic records (ala Time Team) in conjucntion with digs would be particularly helpful in ruling out European influence at some prehistoric sites.
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