Bill Hader is co-writing a Jonestown-centered drama series in development at HBO, with plans to also direct and potentially take on the lead role of cult leader Jim Jones. There’s no official ...

The Jonestown TV series will explore the establishment of the Peoples Temple during the 1950s and the movement's move to Guyana during the 1970s, which ended in the deaths of more than 900 ...

A series about the Rev. Jim Jones, the charismatic cult leader behind the 1978 mass-murder suicide at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project (aka Jonestown) in the Guyanese jungle, is in development ...

Jonestown became internationally infamous in November 1978 when Jones orchestrated a mass murder-suicide of more than 900 members of his Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana.

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 ...

Hader may also star in the series about the infamous 1970s mass suicide. By Rick Porter Television Business Editor Hader and Daniel Zelman (Damages, Bloodline) are developing a drama about ...

Hader would also direct if the project moves forward. Jonestown was a remote settlement in Guyana that was established by the People’s Temple in the 1950s and would become internationally ...

Jones founded the Peoples Temple in 1955 and established Jonestown in Guyana in 1974. Jones and more than 900 members of his Peoples Temple died in a murder-suicide by drinking Flavor Aid (not ...

The Jonestown massacre has been the subject of several documentaries and books. In one of his earliest roles, Powers Boothe starred in the two-part CBS miniseries “Guyana Tragedy: The Story of ...

A series about the Rev. Jim Jones, the charismatic cult leader behind the 1978 mass-murder suicide at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project (aka Jonestown) in the Guyanese jungle, is in ...