Time Team America

Time Team America
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes9
Production
Executive producers
Running time60 minutes
Original release
NetworkPBS
ReleaseJuly 8, 2009 (2009-07-08) –
July 7, 2014 (2014-07-07)
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Time Team America is an American television series that airs on PBS. It premiered on July 8, 2009. It is an Oregon Public Broadcasting adaptation of the British show Time Team, produced in collaboration with Channel 4, which commissioned the original show,[1] in which a team of archeologists and other experts are given 72 hours to excavate an historic site.[2]

The U.S. version features "freelance and university-affiliated experts [who] mostly join existing excavations ... [and] arrive 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."[3]

A second season was announced on October 18, 2011, scheduled to shoot during the summer of 2012 and to air in 2013.[4][5] On December 20, 2011, PBS announced that Justine Shapiro would host the second season.[6]

  1. ^ "About Time Team". Credits. PBS. Time Team America. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  2. ^ "About Time Team". PBS. Time Team America. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  3. ^ "Digging (against the clock) for history". The New York Times. 29 May 2009.
  4. ^ "PBS' Time Team America". Facebook. 18 October 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  5. ^ "Time Team America". PBS (home page). Retrieved February 14, 2012.
  6. ^ "PBS' Time Team America". Facebook. 20 December 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2012.