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 also partners with award winning writer Neil Forsyth with Objective Fiction’s cousin label Tannadice Pictures.

Ben’s credits at Objective Fiction and Tannadice Pictures include Feel Good, Legends & Wayward for Netflix, The Gold, Witless & Eric, Ernie & Me for the BBC, The Larkins for ITV, Year of the Rabbit, GameFace, Toast of Tinseltown & Feel Good for C4.

Before forming Objective Fiction was an Executive Producer at BBC in-House, where his credits included Tracey Ullman’s Show, People Time & Professor Branestawm.

Prior to that Ben was Head of Development and later Head of Scripted at Objective Productions, where his credits included Strutter for MTV, Pete Versus Life & Toast of London for C4, Parents for Sky, Reggie Perrin for the BBC, and Big Bad World for Comedy Central.

Previously he spent 10 years as a freelance producer, 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

Head of Drama

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 Objective Fiction at the start of 2020 as Development Producer.

At Objective Fiction, Rhian has worked on a range of drama and comedy drama including FEEL GOOD, THE GOLD, and the upcoming WAYWARD for Netflix. She became Head of Drama in 2025, and is particularly interested in propulsive, popcorny projects that have something to say about the world today.

Jane Harrison

Head of Production

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. She was appointed Head of Production in 2026.

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.

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.