{"id":132108,"date":"2025-10-05T15:44:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T22:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=132108"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:40:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:40:27","slug":"hbo-to-present-limited-series-on-peoples-temple","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=132108","title":{"rendered":"HBO to Present Limited Series on Peoples Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A limited series exploring Peoples Temple\u00a0is currently in\u00a0development\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/results\/?q=jonestown&#038;size=n_10_n&#038;sort-field=relevance&#038;sort-direction=desc\">HBO<\/a>\u00a0, with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bill-hader\/\">Bill Hader<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/daniel-zelman\/\">Daniel Zelman<\/a>,\u00a0serving as co-writers and co-showrunners. Hader also will direct and have a starring role if the project moves forward.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, Hader and Zelman are speaking with Rebecca Moore and Fielding\u00a0McGehee\u00a0at the Jonestown Institute about the project&#8217;s key elements to help establish\u00a0the integrity\u00a0and authenticity\u00a0of the material. The producers have also contacted a number of Peoples Temple survivors for their perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>Hader previously co-created and starred in the HBO series \u201cBarry\u201d for four seasons, with the show wrapping up its run in 2023. He received 16 total Emmy nominations for his work on the show, including sharing in its four nods for best comedy series. Hader himself won two Emmys for best actor in a comedy for the show in 2018 and 2019. He is also known for his time as a cast member on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d as well as for shows like \u201cSouth Park\u201d and for films like \u201cIT: Chapter Two,\u201d \u201cThe Skeleton Twins,\u201d \u201cInside Out,\u201d and \u201cTrainwreck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zelman previously co-created the hit FX series \u201cDamages\u201d with Glenn and Todd A. Kessler. The show ran for five seasons and earned 20 Emmy nominations with four wins. Zelman and the Kesslers later collaborated on the Netflix series \u201cBloodline,\u201d which ran for three seasons and won Ben Mendelsohn the Emmy for best supporting actor in a drama in 2016. Zelman was also an executive producer on the \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d prequel pilot about The Long Night at HBO and served as a consulting producer on \u201cSuccession.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A limited series exploring Peoples Temple\u00a0is currently in\u00a0development\u00a0at\u00a0HBO\u00a0, with Bill Hader and\u00a0Daniel Zelman,\u00a0serving as co-writers and co-showrunners. Hader also will direct and have a starring role if the project moves forward. At the moment, Hader and Zelman are speaking with Rebecca Moore and Fielding\u00a0McGehee\u00a0at the Jonestown Institute about the project&#8217;s key elements to help establish\u00a0the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":132189,"menu_order":43,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-132108","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132110,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132108\/revisions\/132110"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}