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 ...

Bill Hader and Daniel Zelman are developing an HBO series centered on Jim Jones and the infamous events at Jonestown.

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Bill Hader ( SNL , Barry ) and Daniel Zelman are working on a series about the Reverend Jim Jones, the charismatic cult ...