based on the Jonestown tragedy and Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, a 1980 CBS miniseries based on the life of Jones and the Peoples Temple. Hader most recently wrapped a four-season run on HBO ...

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The Jonestown deaths were previously explored on TV in the 1980 miniseries Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, which ...

Bill Hader is following up the Emmy Award winning crime-Hollywood satire “Barry” with a HBO series about cult leader Rev. Jim Jones, according to a report.

In addition to serving as executive producer, director and co-writer, the "Barry" co-creator is being eyed to star in the project ...

Who better than comedian Bill Hader to star as Jim Jones in a TV show about the cult leader and his doomed "agricultural project" in Guyana? Variety has learned exclusively that Hader and Daniel ...

Bill Hader's next project has been revealed, and this time he's tackling the true crime genre with a series about Jonestown.

Jim Jones was a complex man ... he had been building since 1974 in the South American nation of Guyana. He named it Jonestown. Occupying nearly 4000 acres of jungle, Jonestown had poor soil ...

On November 18th, 1978, over 900 people died at an American settlement in the jungle of Guyana called Jonestown. In this first of two episodes, we are going to find out how they ended up in South ...

The "Barry" creator is co-writing the series with "Damages" showrunner Daniel Zelman, and could potentially star in it.

It turns out Bill Hader has been drinking the Kool-Aid. Variety has learned exclusively that Hader and Daniel Zelman are currently developing an HBO series centered on Jim Jones and the infamous ...