She was the presenter of the British reality competition series Scrapheap Challenge and its American counterpart Junkyard Wars.
Rogers joined the BBC as a producer in the early 1990s, specialising in scientific documentaries, including work on the long-running series Horizon.
In 1995 Rogers moved to the independent production company RDF Media, where she helped devise and produced the popular Channel 4 technology reality game show Scrapheap Challenge, known in North America as Junkyard Wars.
In 2001, Rogers was promoted to creative director at RDF Media's new Los Angeles centre, where she oversaw the company's activities in the United States, including the American versions of popular shows such as Faking It and Wife Swap.
She subsequently completed a PhD in Educational Neuroscience at Birkbeck, University of London and has published an introduction to the field.