''Time Team America'' is an American

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that airs on

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. It premiered on July 8, 2009. It is an

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adaptation of the British show ''

Time Team ''Time Team'' is a British television programme that originally aired on Channel 4, Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014. It returned online in 2022 for two episodes released on YouTube. Created by television pro ...

'', produced in collaboration with

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, which commissioned the original show, in which a team of archeologists and other experts are given 72 hours to excavate an historic site. The U.S. version features "freelance and university-affiliated experts homostly join existing excavations ... ndarrive with resources that the archaeologists already on the case usually can’t afford and specific questions that, if answered, will advance the understanding of the site." A second season was announced on October 18, 2011, scheduled to shoot during the summer of 2012 and to air in 2013. On December 20, 2011,

announced that Justine Shapiro would host the second season.

Episodes

When

introduced a video player on its website in mid-April 2009, an episode of ''Time Team America'' became the most viewed. Original air dates are as announced by PBS, but may vary by PBS station.

Season 1 (2009)

Season 2

After a four-year gap, Videotext Communications/PBS produced the second season, which aired in 2014.

Reviews

A ''

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'' reviewer wrote :"''Time Team America'' at moments, employs napproach much in favor at PBS, which worries – needlessly, I think – that the only way to make serious subjects appealing to the attention-deficit-disordered youth of our TV nation is to throw in plenty of zing, zest and zip. ... But don't hold any of this against the show, because it's engaging, thoughtful, smart, nicely produced and really, really interesting."

DVD

All five episodes of the first season have been released on separate DVDs.

References

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External links

* * {{Time Team PBS original programming 2009 American television series debuts 2009 American television series endings 2000s American documentary television series Archaeology of the United States American television series based on British television series Time Team