Career
He is best known for the internationally successful Finnish television-series The Dudesons, and The Dudesons in America. Tiensuu started his directing career on MoonTV in 1999, and worked for the company until 2003. His directorial works for the channel include the fashion show Dresscode, the game shows Overdose and Play, the adult entertainment show Pornostara, and the literature show Kirjarovio.
In 2003 joined Rabbit Films and started working on the English-language version of the Finnish hit series Extreme Duudsonit.
The name was eventually changed to The Dudesons and Tiensuu was a co-creator, writer, segment-director and editor on the show. The series was launched in 2006 and it quickly became the most internationally successful Finnish television-series of all time, airing in over 150 countries and spawning four seasons.
In 2006 Tiensuu also worked as a co-creator, writer and a director of cinematography and editing in The Dudesons Movie, which was released theatrically in Finland. In 2010 Tiensuu worked as a co-creator, producer, writer and a segment director in The Dudesons in America, an Music Television United States of America series which was budgeted at 6 million dollars.
In 2008 Tiensuu created together with Arman Alizad.
This martial arts show spawned two seasons, written and directed by Tiensuu. lieutenant was distributed worldwide and it aired in over 100 countries. The series was nominated for the Best Finnish television-show of the year in the 2010 Venla-gaala.
Tiensuu has also worked as a television-commercial director for different production companies, such as Verse Productions, Rabbit Films and MoonTV. He has also directed many music videos for popular Finnish artists such as Indica, Paleface and Petri Nygåroad