Sir David Frost signs new deal with BBC News

The BBC has commissioned Sir David Frost to host a new series of interviews, entitled ‘The Frost Interview’.
The landmark interviews, in line with Sir David's 40-year career as one of the world's foremost interviewers, will be pegged to key UK and global news stories and will focus on the people at the heart of the news.
The series, the result of a new three-year deal between Sir David and the BBC, will be launched after the next General Election in approximately one year's time at which point Sir David will relinquish his regular Sunday programme ‘Breakfast with Frost’ in order to start work on The Frost Interview.
Week in and week out for 12 years, Breakfast with Frost has been the most quoted show on British television.
Hundreds of leading figures have appeared on the programme since its launch in January 1993.
They range from Presidents and Prime Ministers like Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Vladimir Putin and Tony Blair to sporting icons such as David Beckham, Sol Campbell, Sir Steven Redgrave and Lennox Lewis and music icons like Eric Clapton, Sir Elton John, and Sir Paul McCartney.
Sir David said: "I'm enormously excited about the new series of interviews. The twelve years of Breakfast with Frost have been some of the most fulfilling years of my career but, once we're through the next Election, I feel that the time will be right to ring the changes.
"The new series of interviews will allow us to bring additional insight to the key domestic and global issues and will, as ever, tackle the main players at the heart of the story."
Richard Sambrook, BBC's Director of News, said: "Sir David Frost has made and continues to make a huge contribution to the BBC's news and current affairs programming.
"His remarkable 40 year career has made him a household name and established him as one of the world's foremost interviewers.
"He is indeed the only person to have interviewed the last six UK Prime Ministers and the last seven Presidents of the US.
"The new interviews will capture the intellectual calibre and analysis of world events associated with Breakfast with Frost, reflecting the heart of the news agenda."
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