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Time Team is the only example I'm aware of where proper scholarly research was created as a by product of popular television on a regular basis. As the article
by timthorn 14y ago
Time Team is the only example I'm aware of where proper scholarly research was created as a by product of popular television on a regular basis.
As the article states, "It is to the Channel’s credit that it did this [pump £4M into British archaeology]] despite much of that outlay being channelled into post-excavation work that never appeared onscreen."
- nekojima 14y agoAs well as the 225 scholarly reports, plus additional articles, on the dig sites. They exceeded almost all universities and archaeology units in the UK on an individual institution basis for output and quality of work. It may have been a TV series, but the folks doing the work were serious archaeologists who did real work, making a real contribution.