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n. (plural of collector English)
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Collectors is an Australian television series that was shown at 8.00pm on Friday on ABC1 and repeated at 6.00pm on Monday on ABC2. It investigated a variety of collections from museums and private collectors. It was hosted by comedian Andy Muirhead, a former biologist, and featured a panel of experts: Sydney-based fashion designer Claudia Chan Shaw, antiques dealer and restorer Gordon Brown and professor of sociology Adrian Franklin. The panel formerly included museum curator Niccole Warren, and Lauren Carpenter. Past guests have included former Australian immigration minister Amanda Vanstone, former Australian federal opposition leader Kim Beazley, and musician Pete Cooper from The Porkers.
On 11 June 2010, it was reported that host Andy Muirhead had been charged with one count of accessing child pornography. Collectors was off-air for a month and Muirhead took unpaid leave during proceedings. The website for the show was also taken down temporarily. These actions have been criticised for giving an impression of guilt. It was announced the following week that the show would return without Muirhead in July. In October 2012, Muirhead was sentenced to 10 months in jail for child pornography offences after pleading guilty in July 2012.
Collectors returned on 9 July 2010 without Muirhead as host. Hosting duties were largely taken by Chan Shaw and repeats of the episodes of the show featuring Muirhead were pulled from programming schedules to be replaced with the new episodes.
In August 2011, the ABC announced that Collectors would be "rested" following a strategic review of the network's arts programming. The last episode in the series aired on 23 September, with the team behind the show producing a new program called Auction Room for 2012.
On 20 November 2012 the ABC announced that it would be closing its Tasmanian production unit. The managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Mark Scott, stated that "Tasmania does not have the scale and market to justify the high fixed costs involved in maintaining an internal television production unit and associated labour and infrastructure". It was confirmed that Collectors and Auction Room would not be recommissioned.
Usage examples of "collectors".
The collectors are dancing in place, dying to know whether their personal collections will be enhanced or diminished by the tomb goods.
At some time in the past, the jade was burned, perhaps in a tomb fire, perhaps later in a collectors home that was destroyed by war.
Businesses, collectors, owners of all kinds of Chinese artifacts simply packed them up and shipped them to Vancouver or Seattle, San Francisco or L.
I have told you before that there are a great many unscrupulous fossil collectors about these days.
Fossil hunters were a shameless lot and she was constantly on her guard around collectors such as Mr.
Fossil collectors can be a very unscrupulous lot, as I have told you, my lord.
I have made the acquaintance of many collectors here in London and I can think of several who strike me as a bit shady.
You have now seen for yourself just how unscrupulous these fossil collectors can be.
Then he tried flint hatchets and other implements of Primeval Man, but by and by discovered that the factory where they were made was supplying other collectors as well as himself.
At the bottom was a thick packet of correspondence to and from various men of science and collectors, held together by an ancient string that flew apart when she touched it.
Quite common among big-game hunters and collectors in the last century.
Its value had been placed at some 22 million credits, but, like all collectors, the evaluation of his collection was dealt with in terms of emotion rather than currency, for no piece would ever be offered for sale.
Once the signal had been reflected beyond Soviet borders, land-based or airborne collectors could intercept it.
When I get duplicates, I exchange with other collectors, and thus increase the variety of my stock.
Like other collectors I have had copied for the Villa the Hermaphrodite and the Centaur, the Niobid and the Venus.