{"id":2570,"date":"2014-06-19T19:29:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T19:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/06\/19\/abc-boards-lionsgate-tandem-drama-series-project-sex-lies-and-handwriting\/"},"modified":"2014-06-19T19:29:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T19:29:11","slug":"abc-boards-lionsgate-tandem-drama-series-project-sex-lies-and-handwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/06\/19\/abc-boards-lionsgate-tandem-drama-series-project-sex-lies-and-handwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC Boards Lionsgate &#038; Tandem Drama Series Project \u2018Sex, Lies And Handwriting\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Nellie Andreeva \/ Deadline<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>:\u00a0Lionsgate Television\u00a0and\u00a0Tandem Communications\u00a0have set crime drama<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; color: #0568f9;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/tag\/sex-lies-and-handwriting\/\">\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Sex, Lies And Handwriting\u00a0<\/em>at\u00a0ABC. The project, now in development, is intended as straight-to-series, with a fall production start in Vancouver eyed should ABC move to greenlight the pilot script.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Sex, Lies And Handwriting<\/em>\u00a0is the first project to come out of the joint venture Lionsgate Television and Tandem Communications, a Studio canal company,\u00a0launched last year\u00a0to co-finance and distribute hourlong dramas using the straight-to-series model Tandem employed for its first drama series,\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Crossing Lines,\u00a0<\/em>as well as its miniseries including\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">The Pillars Of The Earth<\/em>and its follow-up\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">World Without End.<\/em>\u00a0As expected, the partners tweaked Tandem\u2019s existing approach,\u00a0in which the Munich-based company financed its series (mostly though international pre-sales) and completed the projects before taking the finished product to the U.S.. With\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Sex, Lies And Handwriting,<\/em>\u00a0an American network, ABC, is brought in much earlier in the process for more simultaneous sales in the U.S. and Europe and Canada. Other network development partners already on board for the potential series include Bell Media (Canada), TF1 Network (France) and ProSiebenSat.1 (Germany). The series would be produced in Canada by Sea To Sky, the Canadian studio joint venture between Lionsgate and Thunderbird Films.<span id=\"more-747957\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Inspired by Michelle Dresbold\u2019s book of the same title,\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Sex, Lies And Handwriting<\/em>\u00a0is a witty take on the crime series that follows the exploits of Leslie Bold, an accomplished artist and handwriting expert \u2014 with her own newspaper column on the subject \u2014 who is unexpectedly drawn into the world of crime-solving because of her extraordinary skills. Annie Brunner (<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Saving Grace<\/em>) will write the script and co-executive produce the series, with fellow\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Saving Grace<\/em>\u00a0alum Nancy Miller onboard as executive producer and showrunner. Tandem\u2019s Rola Bauer as well as Jeff Sagansky, Sunta Izaccupa and Chris Barrett also executive produce alongside Sea to Sky\u2019s Ivan Fecan and Brett Burlock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nellie Andreeva \/ Deadline EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Lionsgate Television\u00a0and\u00a0Tandem Communications\u00a0have set crime drama\u00a0\u00a0Sex, Lies And Handwriting\u00a0at\u00a0ABC. The project, now in development, is intended as straight-to-series, with a fall production start in Vancouver eyed should ABC move to greenlight the pilot script. 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