 O'Donoghue appeared in the series one of Jamie Oliver's "The Naked Chef", before his first show of his own in Morocco for American Television.This was followed by an invitation to co-present a BBC2 ten part prime-time series "The Best" in April 2002, with an accompanying BBC book of the same name.When he returned to Australia, he went straight into filming the 8-part food and travel series for the ABC called "Surfing the Menu", with Curtis Stone with an accompanying ABC book in early 2003.