Time Team America
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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]
Time Team America | |
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 9 |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
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Network | PBS |
Release | July 8, 2009 (2009-07-08) – July 7, 2014 (2014-07-07) |
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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]