<Li> A German - style board game by Michael Rieneck and Stefan Stadler was published in 2006 by Kosmos and released at the Spiel game fair as Die Säulen der Erde . The game sold out long before the fair ended . It has been awarded the 2007 Deutscher Spiele Preis, the Spanish "Game of the Year 2007" and the Norwegian "Best Family Game of 2007" and the GAMES Magazine Game of the Year 2007 . </Li> <Li> A 2 - player game was published by Kosmos in Germany and reprinted in the US as Pillars of the Earth: Builder's Duel . </Li> <Li> A trivia game, attributed to E. Follett, was first published in 2008 by the British publisher Sophisticated Games . </Li> <P> A German - Canadian co-production was developed by the Munich - based Tandem Communications and Montreal - based Muse Entertainment, in association with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Films, to adapt the novel for a television movie . It premiered on 23 July 2010 in Canada on The Movie Network / Movie Central and in the United States on Starz . Its UK premiere was in October 2010 on Channel 4 . The Australian premiere was 9 December 2012 on ABC1 . </P>

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