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