“Revolutionary”: That was the word Jim Jones used to describe the mass ... which they called Kool-Aid. So they brought it up here and he said, ‘We’ve put the cyanide in the Kool-Aid.

“Drinking the Kool-Aid.” The Jonestown deaths were previously explored on TV in the 1980 miniseries Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, which starred Powers Boothe as Jones. Breaking Bad creator ...

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.

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