Filming begins in Sydney on ABC and Screen Australia's 'Optics'

ABC and Screen Australia have announced that filming has commenced in Sydney on Optics, a 6-part comedy series from The Feed, Nugget is Dead: A Christmas Story's Jenna Owen and Vic Zerbst, and The Chaser’s Charles Firth.

Written by and starring the trio, Optics is an Easy Tiger and Chaser Digital production, directed by Max Miller, executive produced by Firth, Easy Tiger’s Rob Gibson and Ian Collie of Colin from Accounts, Owen and Zerbst, and produced by Paige Wharehinga.

Optics follows two whip-smart 20-something women (Owen and Zerbst) who are unexpectedly promoted to run crisis management PR firm Fritz & Randell, after the death of office patriarch Frank Fritz. As they battle weekly public relations crises from celebrities, sports stars and corporate titans, and power challenges from veteran PR flack Ian Randell (Charles Firth), they slowly come to realise that their firm might have a scandal brewing of its own, and start to wonder: have they been set up to fail?

Optics received major production investment from Screen Australia and the ABC and was financed with support from Screen NSW. Optics is produced in association with and distributed by ITV Studios. 

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