In 2003, after doing nearly four years' development work with the production company Tandem Communications of Munich, Germany, Duane and Peter Morwood co-wrote the script for the German TV miniseries "Die Nibelungen". The miniseries aired in Germany on the Sat.1 network in late November 2004, and a feature version (titled "Sword of Xanten") screened in the UK in December 2004. A "megafeature" cut of the entire miniseries was aired on Channel Four television in the UK in December 2005. The miniseries aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in the US in late March 2006 under the title "". The miniseries has also been released on DVD in the US and numerous other markets, under various titles (the previous US title was "Curse of the Ring").