TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS AND CHANNEL 4 BUILD A HOME FOR THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH IN THE UK

IAN MCSHANE, RUFUS SEWELL, MATTHEW MACFADYEN, EDDIE REDMAYNE, HAYLEY ATWELL AND DONALD SUTHERLAND TOPLINE ALL-STAR CAST FOR EPIC STORY BASED ON KEN FOLLETT’S GLOBAL BESTSELLER

TANDEM OPTIONS KEN FOLLETT’S WORLD WITHOUT END, THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER SEQUEL TO THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH, TO DEVELOP AS AN EVENT SERIES, WITH SCOTT FREE TELEVISION

2010/03/10

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STARZ AND TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS SET TO UNVEIL EIGHT-HOUR EVENT SERIES, BASED ON KEN FOLLETT’S GLOBAL BESTSELLER‚ ‘THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH’

IAN MCSHANE, RUFUS SEWELL, DONALD SUTHERLAND TOPLINE ALL-STAR CAST FOR EPIC STORY, SET IN 12th CENTURY ENGLAND; PREMIERING THIS SUMMER AND ONLY ON STARZ IN THE U.S.

TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS makes key post production and sales staff announcements

Munich, Germany - Since 1999, the television production and worldwide distribution company, TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS, has produced and co-produced high-end primetime Event programs (Frank Herbert’s DUNE, Ring of the Nibelungs, Dragons’ World – A Fantasy Made Real, The Company, and soon wrapping production on The Pillars of the Earth)...

2009/10/28

TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS AND VMMA ANNOUNCE EXCLUSIVE OUTPUT DEAL

Munich, Germany / Brussels, Belgium - VMMa, the leading independent broadcaster in Dutch-speaking Belgium, has inked an exclusive Free TV output deal with Munich-based TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS.  The announcement was made by Luc Janssens, VMMa’s Head of Acquisitions and Bernhard Schwab, TANDEM’s Sales Director...

SONY PICTURES EXECUTIVE MALISA SCOTT JOINS TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS AS PARTNER AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Munich, Germany - Tandem Communications announced today the addition of Malisa Scott to its management team as Partner and Chief Operating Officer...

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KEN FOLLETT’S THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH, NOW BEING FILMED AS A LIMITED SERIES, HITS THE HALFWAY POINT.  KEN FOLLETT ACCEPTS A CAMEO ROLE.

Munich, Germany - Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominated, Munich-based production and international distribution company, TANDEM Communications along with its Canadian co-producer, Muse Entertainment, and in association with Ridley Scott and Tony Scott’s Scott Free Films, announce that as they reach the midway point in their 110 day shoot, book author, Ken Follett agreed to appear in a one-scene speaking role...

Ian McShane, Donald Sutherland, Rufus Sewell, Matthew Macfadyen, Sarah Parish, Hayley Atwell, Eddie Redmayne and Gordon Pinsent headline star-studded cast for screen adaptation of Ken Follett’s bestselling masterpiece The Pillars of the Earth

TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS AND PRO TV ANNOUNCE EXCLUSIVE, GROUND-BREAKING OUTPUT DEAL

    

Munich, Germany - Following MIPTV Romanian broadcaster PRO TV has inked an exclusive output deal for Free TV with Munich-based TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS. The announcement was made by Sorina Big, Acquisitions Director for Pro TV S.A. and Bernhard Schwab, TANDEM’s Sales Director...

MILLIONS OF NORA ROBERTS FANS DEMANDED MORE AND LIFETIME TELEVISION DELIVERS RATINGS-HOMERUN WITH THE 2nd COLLECTION OF NORA ROBERTS ORIGINAL MOVIES

  

PUBLISHING PHENOMENON NORA ROBERTS' FRANCHISE NOW TOTALLING EIGHT EVENT MOVIES.  PETER GUBER'S MANDALAY TELEVISION AND STEPHANIE GERMAIN PRODUCTIONS DELIVER ON STAR-STUDDED CAST FOR THESE POPULAR ROMANTIC THRILLERS.

Munich, Germany - TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS is proud to announce that High Noon, Midnight Bayou, Northern Lights and Tribute garnered excellent ratings for Lifetime Television when they were aired recently in four consecutive weeks in March and April, 2009...

PATRICIA CORNWELL, THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLING AUTHOR, GIVES THE GO-AHEAD FOR THE FIRST TIME FOR TWO OF HER NOVELS TO BE ADAPTED AS EVENT MOVIES FOR LIFETIME NETWORK

Veteran Producers Stanley M. Brooks and Jim Head Team with TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS to Bring Cornwell’s New Crime Novels to the Screen.

Munich, Germany - TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS (The Company, The Pillars of the Earth) is proud to announce a new deal to co-produce and distribute worldwide excluding the Lifetime window, two movies-for-television based on a pair of the newest, acclaimed novels by world renowned author and publishing sensation Patricia Cornwell...

IMPACT, THE EVENT MINISERIES STARRING DAVID JAMES ELLIOTT, NATASHA HENSTRIDGE, STEVEN CULP AND JAMES CROMWELL PICKED UP BY ABC NETWORK

Miniseries also has second window on SCI FI CHANNEL in the U.S.

Munich, Germany - TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS, Jaffe/Braunstein Entertainment and Muse Entertainment Enterprises are proud to announce ABC Network’s acquisition of the American television rights to Impact, a four-hour internationally produced disaster epic...

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NIGHT AND DAY

Fires Up for Production

Montreal, Canada - Muse Entertainment begins principal photography on Night and Day, a pilot for TNT of a series that dynamically combines crime drama, family drama, and coming of age... a blend of action, suspense, humor and heart. The series is created and written by Emmy® award winners Joel Surnow, co-creator of the smash hit series 24 and Todd Robinson (White Squall, Lonely Hearts). Muse Entertainment is producing in association with TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS, which is also the series’ international distributor...

TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS announces key staff expansions in development, production, marketing and sales to meet its continuously growing slate of Event programs

Munich, Germany - Since 1999, the television production and worldwide distribution company, TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS, has labelled itself a boutique operation - producing and co-producing high-end primetime Event programs (Frank Herbert's Dune, Ring of the Nibelungs, Dragons - A Fantasy Made Real, The Company - to name a few) as well as distributing them along with programs from such mini-majors as Lions Gate and Mandalay...

Muse Entertainment and TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS proudly announce Night And Day, a new Joel Surnow series for TNT.

Night And Day, a gritty crime series with heart, is created and written by Emmy® award winners Joel Surnow, co-creator of the smash hit series 24 and Todd Robinson (The Last Full Measure, White Squall, Lonely Hearts). 

Munich, Germany - Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominated Muse Entertainment (Human Trafficking, This is Wonderland, The Flood) will produce in association with Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominated TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS (The Company, Lost City Raiders, Ring of the Nibelungs) who will also distribute internationally a new primetime network series to launch at Mipcom 2008...

TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS ANNOUNCES EXCITING NEW SALES AND DELIVERIES UPDATES AS IT RAMPS UP FOR MIPCOM 2008 (OCTOBER 13 - 17, 2008)

TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS AND SLOVAKIA TV JOJ ANNOUNCE EXCLUSIVE, GROUND-BREAKING OUTPUT DEAL

Munich/Germany, Bratislava/Slovakia (2008/09/24) - Slovakian broadcaster TV JOJ has inked an exclusive output deal for Free TV with Munich-based TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS.  The announcement was made by Erika Tothova, Head of Acquisitions for the broadcaster and Bernhard Schwab, TANDEM's Sales Director...

TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS Builds the Financial Pillars of Ken’s Follett’s Best-Selling Phenomenon, The Pillars of the Earth as an Event Television Series with ProSieben/Sat.1’s German FreeTV Group and Spain’s Sogecable. The TANDEM / Scott Free Production will Begin Prep in the Fall.

Munich, Germany - Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominated TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS (Ring of the Nibelungs, The Company) announced having inked deals with the German FreeTV Group, a division of Germany’s ProSieben/Sat.1 AG, as well as Spain’s Sogecable S.A. (for their Pay TV network, Canal+ and the Free TV broadcaster, Cuatro) for Ken Follett’s worldwide bestseller The Pillars of the Earth as an 8-hour event series...

IMPACT - THE EVENT, 4-HOUR MINISERIES BUDGETED AT US$14 MILLION STARTS PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY, STARRING NATASHA HENSTRIDGE, DAVID JAMES ELLIOTT AND JAMES CROMWELL.

Munich/Victoria, British Columbia/Los Angeles, California. TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS, Jaffe/Braunstein Films and Muse Entertainment Enterprises proudly announce start of principal photography, shooting on location in Canada in Victoria, B.C., of IMPACT, ... 

THE NORA ROBERTS COLLECTION II: BY POPULAR DEMAND, THE FRANCHISE CONTINUES. MILLIONS OF VIEWERS WORLDWIDE WANT MORE OF THE PUBLISHING PHENOMENON’S BOOKS AS PRIMETIME TELEVISION EVENT MOVIES.

THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH, THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BY WORLD-RENOWNED KEN FOLLETT WILL BE THE EVENT SERIES OF 2009.

Munich/Germany. Eighteen years after its first publication, The Pillars of the Earth, considered by most to be Ken Follett’s masterpiece, is once again Number #1 on the New York Times trade paperback list and has been optioned by TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS to be made into a limited television series.

PROSIEBEN AND TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS PROUDLY ANNOUNCE PRODUCTION OF LOST CITY RAIDERS.  THE 2-HOUR, EVENT MOVIE, WHICH HAS BEEN CO-DEVELOPED WITH THE SCIFI CHANNEL (USA) BEGINS PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON MARCH 13TH ..

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THE COMPANY GARNERS AWARD NOMINATIONS: GOLDEN GLOBE®, CRITICS’ CHOICE & WRITERS GUILD AWARD

Munich, Germany - Industry Kudos for the Six-Hour Mini from Exec Producers Ridley Scott, Tony Scott & John Calley in Association with Sony Pictures Television, in Co-Production with TANDEM Communications and Alchemy Television Group..

2007/10/22

TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS PROMOTES BERNHARD SCHWAB TO INTERNATIONAL SALES DIRECTOR

Munich, Germany - Bernhard Schwab joined TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS in September 2004 as a Sales Coordinator in the International Sales Department, responsible for papering sales agreements as well as the overseeing and coordinating backroom operations...

MIPCOM 2007: Tandem Communications expands into Japan

Munich, Germany - Munich-based production and international distribution company, TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS, has been building its volume of business in the Japanese market...

Tandem Communications and CUATRO signed multi-title deal

Munich, Germany - TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS and Spanish network Cuatro signed a multi-title deal today, encompassing most of TANDEM’s output of miniseries, movies and long running series...

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PRODUCER JONAS BAUER JOINS

ROLA BAUER & TIM HALKIN AS PARTNER

IN TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS     
 

Munich, Germany - Jonas Bauer, who joined forces initially with TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS in August 2004 as an affiliated producer and sales agent for the Italian and Spanish markets, has joined the Munich-based production and distribution company's management team as a partner....

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NORA ROBERTS' MOVIE COLLECTION CONQUERS EUROPE           
 

AFTER SUCCESS IN USA, PUBLISHING PHENOMEON'S EVENT PIX WIN PRIMETIME IN GERMANY

Munich, Germany - After tripling Lifetime Network's average Monday night primetime ratings, the 4 event movies based on books by Nora Roberts are now sweeping their way across Europe proving the publishing-star's (over 290 million books sold worldwide) strength in the international market...

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Millions of Viewers tune in into Nora Roberts’ Montana Sky, the 1st of a Roberts Event Movie 4-pack, on ARD in Germany

Munich, Germany - TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS is proud to announce that Montana Sky, starring My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Sex in the City’s John Corbett, the first of 4 event movies based on the romantic thrillers from the publishing phenomenon, Nora Roberts, aired in primetime on Germany’s ARD last night, claiming a 19.1% rating in the demo 3+, winning the night in primetime…

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TANDEM Takes MIPTV by Storm with int’l launch of new Starz Action Series PAINKILLER JANE    

SCI FI (USA) SCORES STRONG RATINGS WITH PREMIERE

Munich, Germany - The Network’s Best Friday Primetime Performance in the past 7 Months: Painkiller Jane Premiered in America on April 13th on the SCI FI Channel…    

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2007/02/02 

THE US PREMIERE OF NORA ROBERTS’ ANGELS FALL WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS, TRIPPELING THE NETWORK’S AVERAGE VIEWERSHIP

Munich, Germany - The first of four adaptations of Nora Roberts’ best-selling novels, Nora Roberts’ Angels Fall, starring Heather Locklear, premiered on Lifetime Monday, January 29th, in the US enjoying an extraordinary success…

STARZ MEDIA AND TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS SIGN A CO-PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION PACT
 

TANDEM ANNOUNCES NEW LINE OF PROGRAM FOR AFM 2006

Munich, Germany - Starz Media, a production and distribution company what is wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp. Unit Starz LLC, has announced a co-production and distribution pact with European-based TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS...

2006/03/28

TANDEM’s Strategy Delivers:

4 Event Movies Based on Publishing Phenomenon Nora Roberts; Robert Ludlum’s The Hades Factor for CBS; TANDEM Produced Mini Dark Kingdom Premieres in the USA

Munich, Germany – TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS, a television production and distribution company co-managed by Rola Bauer and Tim Halkin, is beefing up its sales arm and winning international distribution of major television primetime event programs...

2006/01/09

TANDEM's Event Programming is Networks' Favourite Holiday Choice

European Networks results: average of 21% Market Share in key demo

Munich, Germany - Ring of the Nibelungs (2 x 2 hr. mini), P.I. – Post Impact (90 min. movie), Dragons – A Fantasy Made Real (90 mins. doc) and James Cameron’s Expedition: Bismarck (90 min. doc) highlighted holiday programming in the UK, France, Germany and the USA...

TANDEM Film Projects Air During Holiday Season

Munich, Germany - TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS' features and miniseries will be airing internationally between now and early January, including...

Discovery And TANDEM Nominated For Emmy

Munich, Germany - The 2005 Emmy Nominations have been announced, and TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS and Discovery Channel have been nominated for an Emmy in the category "Outstanding Animated Program (Or Programming of One Hour Or)"...

Pair Peddle Their TANDEM Across Tv's Borders

From Variety, June 27 - July 10, 2005:

By Ed Meza

Berlin, Germy - As North American toppers of a German company selling TV content to the world, Rola Bauer and her TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS partner Tim Halkin have always looked beyond borders...

TANDEM Announces 4-Hour Event Miniseries, The Hades Factor

Munich, Germany - The Sanitsky Company, Ludlum Entertainment and TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS team up to co-produce Robert Ludlum novel, The Hades Factor as 4-hour Event Miniseries...

TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS and Seven One International Join Forces

Munich, Germany - TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS and SevenOne International join forces in a distribution joint venture to launch at MipTV 2005...

TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS Scores With a Double Ratings Homerun

Munich, Germany - Ring of the Nibelungs (aka Dark Kingdom - The Dragon King, aka Sword of Xanten) and Dragons - A Fantasy Made Real on German network Sat.1...

TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS & Vip Media Funds Announce Commencement of Principal Photography on Fantasy/Adventure

Kingdom in Twilight

Munich, Germany - TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS and VIP Media Funds are pleased to announce that the epic Fantasy/Adventure motion picture, Kingdom in Twilight, commenced principal photography on the 17th November in Cape Town, South Africa...

Eur 20 Million Event Motion Picture Adaptation, The Ring

Munich, Germany - TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS and VIP Medienfonds are pleased to announce a € 20 Million event motion picture adaptation of The Ring of the Nibelungs under the present working title: The Ring...

TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS Lights The Way For The Tv Fall Season

Munich, Germany - Munich based production and distribution company, TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS, is presenting the action-drama A Light in Dark Places at this year's MIPCOM...

*miniseries *series *Tv movie

Munich, Germany - Munich-based TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS can look back on its most successful month in the production company’s young history...

Mip 2000 Sees TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS in Full Swing

Projects with Wolfgang Petersen’s Radiant Productions, KirchMedia, Endemol Entertainment and UFA International

Munich, Germany - Since its launch in August last year, Rola Bauer’s Munich-based TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS has grown quickly, assembling a top team and taking on several high-profile projects...

TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS In Full Swing

Munich, Germany – Since its launch in August last year, Rola Bauer’s Munich-based TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS has grown quickly, assembling a top team and taking on several high-profile projects...

Rola Bauer Launches Munich-Based TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS

Munich, Germany – Rola Bauer, late of Germany’s ProSieben Television Network, has created TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS GMBH...

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