He was one of the people behind the launch of ITV station TV-am in 1983. He was the inaugural host of the US newsmagazine programme Inside Edition. He hosted the Sunday morning interview programme "Breakfast with Frost" for the BBC from 1993 to 2005, and spent two decades as host of "Through the Keyhole". From 2006 to 2012, he hosted the weekly programme "Frost Over the World" on Al Jazeera English, and the weekly programme "The Frost Interview" from 2012. He received the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2005 and the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Emmy Awards in 2009.