About a month ago, I heard that two producers of Time Team (no names given), are working with Oregon Public Broadcasting to produce a series of six programs called Time Team USA. The programs will be shown on PBS here in 2009 or 2010. An acquaintance of mine from the Archaeology & Anthropology Dept. at the University of South Carolina told me that the production company was working with a colleague of his on a Paleo-Indian site somewhere in S.C. I’m not sure what period of American history the other sites will consist of. It will be interesting to see how that type of program goes over in this country. After seeing Time Team for so many years, I’ve definitely got a biased attitude. Afterall, there will be no mosaic floors uncovered, no Medieval cathedral ruins, and no Iron Age settlements. I’m afraid it will be a bit boring compared to the history in the UK.
They did one in Caribbean and few years ago on an old sugar plantation that dated back to slavery tying it into a family back in England that was quite fascinating.