A preliminary hearing into child pornography charges against former host of ABC series Collectors, Andy Muirhead, was heard in Hobart Magistrates Court.
Question marks hovering over ABC's plans for The New Inventors and Collectors are now being extended to Art Nation, state football and women's basketball.
Amid speculation that The New Inventors is not to be renewed, production staff have again called on ABC boss Mark Scott to halt a broadcaster drift to outsourcing.
Former Top Gear Australia host Warren Brown appears on Collectors to talk about comic book character, Tintin, which inspired him to become a cartoonist.
The Union representing ABC staff is concerned the end of Spicks and Specks signals a growing broadcaster shift from in-house to outsourced productions.