In a strategy designed to build on the success of its recent his TV series Swift Street, which premiered in competition at Canneseries 2024 and screened on SBS, Magpie Pictures has announced new Development Producer and Business Executive appointments. The new roles, funded by Screen Australia Enterprise Business support, will see Matthew Kelly, a highly experienced media and communications executive, join founding Producer Lois Randall and newly promoted General Manager Meredith … [Read more...] about Australia’s Magpie Pictures announces new company appointments
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Magpie Pictures secures rights to the novel ‘The World Without Us’; adapts best-seller into a six-hour drama series
Magpie Pictures has announced that it has secured the rights to Mireille Juchau’s award-winning novel The World Without Us and is adapting the novel into a six x one-hour drama series The Hive. Angela Betzien, one of Australia’s most exciting emerging screenwriters (Total Control and best known for her work in theatre) will be the lead writer working with multi-award-winning writer Blake Ayshford (Fighting Season) as story producer and writer on the series. The Hive is a vivid multi-layered … [Read more...] about Magpie Pictures secures rights to the novel ‘The World Without Us’; adapts best-seller into a six-hour drama series