In October 2010, he wrote and presented a BBC2 series called "Renaissance Revolution", in which he discussed three Renaissance paintings: Raphael's Madonna del Prato; Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights"; and Piero della Francesca's "The Baptism of Christ". In 2014 he wrote and presented a 90-minute documentary for BBC4 on abstract art: "The Rules of Abstraction" considered early modernist beginnings by Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Hilma af Klint, and others, as well as contemporary continuities, ranging from Fiona Rae to El Anatsui. In the same year, Collings appeared in Frederick Wiseman's documentary, "National Gallery" composing and rehearsing a piece-to-camera on Turner's "The Fighting Temeraire", for the documentary "Turner's Thames", (2012), which Collings wrote and presented for BBC4.