About
Objective Fiction specialises in original scripted content. Past and present productions include Peep Show, Feel Good, The Gold, The Larkins, Fresh Meat, Toast of London, Eric, Ernie & Me, Year of the Rabbit, GameFace and Witless.
The Team
Ben Farrell
Chief Creative Officer
Ben is responsible for leading Objective Fiction’s scripted drama and comedy growth both creatively and strategically across its bases in the UK and North America. Always focussed on strong and supportive relationships with the industry’s most talented creatives, both emerging and established.
Ben’s credits at Objective Fiction include Year of the Rabbit, Eric Ernie & Me, GameFace, Toast of Tinseltown, The Larkins, Feel Good, and Witless. Alongside a development and future production slate with projects in with platforms across both the UK and US including the BBC, C4, ITV, Sky, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Paramount+, HBO and FX.
Ben also partners with award winning writer Neil Forsyth with Objective Fiction’s cousin label Tannadice Pictures, the producer of The Gold.
Prior to Objective Fiction, Ben spent two years at BBC in-House, where his credits include Tracey Ullman’s Show, Professor Branestawm, People Time, & Harry Hill’s Look At Love.
Before moving to the BBC Ben spent ten years at Objective Productions, firstly as Head of Development and becoming Head of Comedy in 2012. His credits there included Strutter, Pete Versus Life, Parents, Big Bad World, Felix & Murdo, and Toast of London.
Previously he spent 10 years as a freelance producer, working at various companies including Ginger, Talkback, Avalon and Thames.
Hannah Mackay
Senior Vice-President
Hannah is based in Los Angeles and oversees Objective Fiction’s US development. Previously she was Objective’s Head of Scripted in London.
Hannah has worked on some of the UK’s most critically acclaimed shows: from multi-award winning Fresh Meat, to cult favourite Dirk Gently, to Golden Rose winning Toast of London. In 2015, she produced the final, BAFTA-nominated series of Peep Show, before creating and exec-producing an original sitcom for the ABC Network in the States. Most recently, she produced Year of the Rabbit for Channel 4 and IFC, starring Keeley Hawes and Matt Berry.
Prior to her television work she spent several years working as a croupier in a West End casino and is the author of The Poker Encyclopedia.
Charlie Lewis
Head of Comedy
Charlie recently produced series 2 of Mae Martin’s multi-award winning Netflix smash Feel Good. Prior to this, she developed and produced Roisin Conaty's critically acclaimed C4 series GameFace. Her other credits for Objective Fiction include producing all three series of BBC3’s Rose D’Or nominated comedy-thriller Witless, starring Kerry Howard. She is also an executive producer on The Larkins for ITV1.
Charlie began her career in comedy-entertainment, working in both production and development for Objective and various other companies including Hat Trick, Talkback and Roughcut. Her credits during this time include Room 101 (BBC One); Keith Lemon’s LemonAid (ITV1); Comic Relief (BBC1); Ant and Dec’s Push the Button (ITV1); and John Bishop’s Britain (BBC One).
Rhian Petty
Development Producer
Rhian began her career script reading for a number of drama indies, going on to work in development at Tiger Aspect where she script-edited a wide range of shows including DECLINE AND FALL and RIPPER STREET. As Head of Development at Tiger, Rhian drove forward new and existing projects on the slate while working to develop relationships with emerging talent in the drama and comedy worlds. She left Tiger to story produce Desiree Akhavan’s THE BISEXUAL at Sister Pictures for Hulu and Channel 4, then went on to work in script development for New Pictures and Fremantle before joining the Objective Team at the start of 2020.
Jane Harrison
Production Executive
Jane joined Objective Fiction as Production Executive in November 2021, after spending the year with the company Line Producing the first series of The Larkins and The Larkins at Christmas.
Prior to joining, Jane had 20 years experience in scripted comedy production as a freelance Line Producer & Production Manager with various production companies including Fudge Park, Avalon, Baby Cow, Channel X and Talkback Thames, working on shows such as Breeders, White Gold, Damned, Nighty Night, Gavin & Stacey and Nathan Barley.
Through the 90’s and 00’s, before working in scripted comedy, Jane had a career producing music videos. She travelled the world having a rock and roll life and making videos for bands such as Kasabian, Razorlight, Blur, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Bluetones, Stereophonics, Orbital plus many more who neither she nor anyone else can remember.
Linda Duan
Development Coordinator
Linda joined Objective Fiction as Development Coordinator in March 2023. She started her career in 2015 as a Film consultant, bridging the Chinese and European territories.
To strengthen her knowledge, she graduated from the MetFilm school with a Distinction in MA Producing in 2022.
She started her relationship with Objective Fiction by shadowing Charlie Leech on Toast of Tinseltown, and subsequently worked as Assistant to Producer and Directors on The Gold.
Sinead Patel
Label Assistant
Sinéad joined Objective Fiction in March 2024 and supports Ben Farrell and the entire Fiction team across all productions. Prior to joining, Sinéad worked as Production Secretary on Have I Got News For You and as an Office Runner at Hat Trick Productions.
Before entering TV, she worked as a content and marketing data analyst for global news organisations.