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Who knows what you’ll uncover..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

Time Team is an award-winning format that has been on the UK’s Channel 4 for nearly 20 years. The format focuses on one archaeological dig in every programme with the locations for the digs chosen by the team from suggestions by viewers as to where there might be an archeological mystery. The team have three days to dig, research and reveal - excavating everything from Paleolithic remains to oddities from the much more recent past. Illuminating CGI and great experts bring the past to life as the dig unfolds and items buried for hundreds maybe thousands of years see the light of day. Time Team is a format that gives incredible access to the process of archaeology – a real life treasure hunt - ‘as it happens’.

Time Team Worldwide UK Version

Commissioned by Channel 4 (UK)

Produced by Videotext

Seventeen Seasons: 255 episodes

Premiered in 1994

Access / primetime weekly and stripped

Outperforms slot average

Achieves +2 million viewers per episode

Delivers ABC1 audience demographic

Profiled as ‘High Quality’ and ‘Original’*

Distributed to more than 45 territories

*Pulse Research supplied by Channel 4. Ratings courtesy of BARB USA Version

Commissioned by OPB, part of PBS

Season One: 5 x 60’ Catalunia Version

Commissioned by TV3

Produced by Batabat Productions

Season One: 13 x 60’

Episode 1: #1 Rating show in slot in Catalunia

Episode 2: #1 Rating with 19.2% share

Primetime format commission at 10.15pm

#1 rating series for TV3

Outperforming competition with 15% share

#2 Tweeted subject on Twitter (Spain) A further season has been made in Spain. Season 2: 13 x 60 (2010)



Programme Information

  • Genre: Formats

  • Subgenre: Lifestyle

  • Producers: VIDEOTEXT LIMITED

  • Broadcaster: Channel 4 UK

  • Tags: History Archaeology

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