Editing Jeremy Isaacs (section)

==Later career==
After leaving Channel 4 at the end of 1987,<ref>"Screen: Buzz", ''The Sunday Times'', 3 January 1988</ref> and having failed to be appointed director-general of the BBC, Isaacs became General Director of the [[Royal Opera, London|Royal Opera House]], [[Covent Garden]], a role he fulfilled until 1996. This was a difficult period for the ROH, which was not helped by the broadcast of the revealing ''[[The House (television documentary)|The House]]'' (1996) documentary series on BBC2. Isaacs also served on the Board of Governors of the [[British Film Institute]] in the 1980s.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=26 January 1985 |title=New governor for the BFI. |journal=[[Screen International]] |issue=481 |pages=15}}</ref>

From 1989 to 1998, Isaacs was the interviewer in a revival of the BBC series ''[[Face to Face (British TV series)|Face to Face]]''; the former politician and journalist [[John Freeman (British politician)|John Freeman]] had filled this role in the original 1959–62 run.

Between 1997 and 2000, Isaacs was president of the [[Royal Television Society]]. He was also chairman of [[Sky Arts|Artsworld]] before it was sold to [[Sky plc|Sky]].