“The kingdom of heaven is coming, I promise you,” says Taylor Kitsch as religious leader David Koresh in Paramount Network’s trailer for upcoming show Waco.

The six-part series will premiere in January 2018 when Paramount Network is slated to take over Spike.

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The series is based on the true story of the 1993 standoff between the FBI and Koresh’s spiritual compound in Waco, TX. The cast also includes Michael Shannon, Melissa Benoist and John Leguizamo.

A quarter century after this seminal moment in American history, Paramount Network will present several perspectives of the events that unfolded when The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) conducted a massive raid on Koresh and his followers, known as the Branch Davidians.

After what became the longest gun battle in U.S. law enforcement history, four ATF agents and six civilians were dead and dozens more were wounded. A 51-day standoff ensued, and the conflict ended after an FBI assault led to a fire that engulfed Mount Carmel, killing 76 men, women, and children.

The series is based on two biographies about the incident: “A Place Called Waco” by Branch Davidian David Thibodeau, one of the nine survivors of the final fire on April 19; and “Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator” by former FBI Head of Crisis Negotiation Unit Gary Noesner.

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