{"id":5444,"date":"2014-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2014\/07\/07\/bbc-in-house-comedy-team-recruits-objective-productions-exec\/"},"modified":"2014-07-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T00:00:00","slug":"bbc-in-house-comedy-team-recruits-objective-productions-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2014\/07\/07\/bbc-in-house-comedy-team-recruits-objective-productions-exec\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC In-House Comedy Team Recruits Objective Productions Exec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tLONDON: Ben Farrell, the head of comedy at Objective Productions, has been appointed as an executive producer for BBC&#039;s in-house comedy division, effective September 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSince becoming Objective&#039;s head of comedy in 2008, Farrell has exec produced such hit shows as <em>Toast of London<\/em>, <em>Game Face<\/em>, <em>Parents<\/em>, <em>Big Bad World<\/em>, <em>Pete Versus Life<\/em>, <em>Kerry<\/em>, <em>Felix &amp; Murdo<\/em> and <em>Reggie Perrin<\/em>. Before that, he served as the company&#039;s head of comedy development. Earlier in his career, he was a development producer\/executive producer for Talkback.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMyfanwy Moore, controller for BBC comedy production, stated: &quot;I am utterly delighted that Ben will be joining us in BBC Comedy. He has marvelous credentials, great talent relationships and will be a real asset&mdash;it is an exciting time here and working with the best talent is part of that.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFarrell added: &quot;I&#039;m honored to have worked with many talented people on some great comedy shows at Objective over the last ten years. But I value the BBC hugely, and the offer to work alongside Myfanwy, in the heartland of U.K. comedy production, was too enticing an opportunity to turn down.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Ben Farrell, the head of comedy at Objective Productions, has been appointed as an executive producer for BBC&#039;s in-house comedy division, effective September 2014. 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