Magpie Pictures Preps The Hive

Magpie Pictures has secured the rights to The World Without Us, a novel by Mireille Juchau, and is adapting it into a drama series, titled The Hive.

The six-part series is a multi-layered mystery drama that tells a story of survival. It follows a mother and daughter in the fictional town of Bidgalong in Northern New South Wales, a community marked by the existence and subsequent loss of the Hive commune in a fire 13 years prior.

With development funding support from Screen NSW, Magpie Pictures has launched an intensive writer’s room in Sydney to further develop the series. Angela Betzien (Total Control) will be the lead writer, working with Blake Ayshford (Fighting Season) as story producer and writer on the series.

Magpie Pictures Producer Lois Randall said: “We are thrilled to have such an exceptionally talented and dynamic writing team to transform this beautiful story into an exciting high-end series for the small screen. It is a visually stunning portrayal of a collision of worlds that is rarely explored on screen. A powerfully timely series, it speaks to audiences who enjoy sophisticated high-end dramas with unapologetic, complex characters and stories set in unique worlds. Mireille Juchau is such an extraordinary writer and has captured this intriguing world and characters so authentically in her novel.”