PBS to Unearth Time Team USA

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

PBS green-lit a primetime series that will put archeologists on the clock as they try to unearth mysteries at excavation sites across the country.

Time Team USA is based on the British series of the same name (except without the "USA," of course).

Archeologists are given 72 hours to dig up artifacts and report their findings, with the help of 3-D computer reconstructions.

The series will be produced by Grahame Dixon, who was a producer on the U.K. version.

The PBS version will be a co-production of Oregon Public Broadcasting and Videotext Communications. OPB is also producer of PBS' History Detectives.

Funding is provided by Britain's Channel Four International, OPB, PBS and viewers.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.