Fair points all well made, but i still stick by what i said. I feel they set their stalls out a little early on. I was taught to let the evidence speak first, then you can form an opinion, not form a hypothesis, then make (hopefully) the facts fit (or not). The last few series have fallen flat a lot of the time because of that approach.
Anyhoo, just my opinion. I'm glad it's on tele, and i can think of no other current programme that does anything similar without fudging it massively.

I quite like the characters involved too. Somebody further down the thread said that he couldn't understand why Tony Robinson came in for so much stick and I'm with him. I think he does a sterling job pulling all the disparate parts together. Plus, imagine that job, bloody wet dream trawling round the country digging ancient and historical sites AND getting paid a decent wage to do it, not like real archaeology at all, one of the most underfunded yet important areas of modern culture i can think of.