Veteran TV producer Jeffrey M. Hayes, who oversaw development of “MacGyver” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation” as executive VP of Paramount Pictures, has died from an illness unrelated to Covid. He was 68.
Hayes started his career as a producer, writer and director with Aaron Spelling Productions, where he worked on memorable series including “Vega$” and “T.J. Hooker.”
In the late 1980s, Hayes went to Australia’s Gold Coast where he began to build the infrastructure for a longstanding operation that would produce over 300 hours of international television. He later served as president of Village Roadshow Pictures Television, where he executive produced “Sahara,” “In Pursuit of Honor” and the TV remake of “Mission Impossible.”
In 2000, Hayes started his own production company, Coote/Hayes Productions, and served as executive producer for projects such as “Salem’s Lot,” “Starter Wife” and “Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King,” where he first met director-producer Brian Henson.
Hayes started his career as a producer, writer and director with Aaron Spelling Productions, where he worked on memorable series including “Vega$” and “T.J. Hooker.”
In the late 1980s, Hayes went to Australia’s Gold Coast where he began to build the infrastructure for a longstanding operation that would produce over 300 hours of international television. He later served as president of Village Roadshow Pictures Television, where he executive produced “Sahara,” “In Pursuit of Honor” and the TV remake of “Mission Impossible.”
In 2000, Hayes started his own production company, Coote/Hayes Productions, and served as executive producer for projects such as “Salem’s Lot,” “Starter Wife” and “Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King,” where he first met director-producer Brian Henson.
- 3/22/2021
- by Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
Jeffrey M. Hayes, a veteran producer and a former executive VP with Paramount Pictures Network Television who oversaw the development of “MacGyver” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” has died. He was 68.
Hayes died peacefully on March 9 in Los Angeles from an illness unrelated to Covid-19.
Hayes began his career as a producer, writer and director with Aaron Spelling Productions and worked on the series “Vega$” and “T.J. Hooker.” He then left Spelling and joined Paramount, overseeing “MacGyver” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” He also later worked as president of Village Roadshow Pictures Television and executive produced “Sahara,” “In Pursuit of Honor” and the TV remake of “Mission: Impossible.”
In 2000, Hayes formed his own production company Coote/Hayes Productions and executive produced television features, series and miniseries including the remake of “On The Beach,” “The Lost World” series, “Salem’s Lot,” “Starter Wife” and “Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King,...
Hayes died peacefully on March 9 in Los Angeles from an illness unrelated to Covid-19.
Hayes began his career as a producer, writer and director with Aaron Spelling Productions and worked on the series “Vega$” and “T.J. Hooker.” He then left Spelling and joined Paramount, overseeing “MacGyver” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” He also later worked as president of Village Roadshow Pictures Television and executive produced “Sahara,” “In Pursuit of Honor” and the TV remake of “Mission: Impossible.”
In 2000, Hayes formed his own production company Coote/Hayes Productions and executive produced television features, series and miniseries including the remake of “On The Beach,” “The Lost World” series, “Salem’s Lot,” “Starter Wife” and “Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King,...
- 3/22/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Jeffrey M. Hayes, a longtime producer whose executive tenure at Paramount Pictures Network Television saw him overseeing the development of series including MacGyver and Star Trek: The Next Generation, died March 9 in Los Angeles from an illness unrelated to Covid-19. He was 68.
His death was announced by Michelle Orsi of Three.Sixty Marketing & Communications.
Hayes’s career in producing, writing and directing began at Aaron Spelling Productions, where his projects included Vega$ and T.J. Hooker. From there, Hayes became Executive VP of Paramount Pictures Network Television.
In the late 1980s, Hayes moved to Australia’s Gold Coast to help build a production operation that would span over 25 years and produce over 300 hours of US/International television. As President of Village Roadshow Pictures Television he executive produced Sahara, In Pursuit of Honor, the remake of the television series Mission Impossible and The Thorn Birds – The Missing Years with The Wolper Organization.
His death was announced by Michelle Orsi of Three.Sixty Marketing & Communications.
Hayes’s career in producing, writing and directing began at Aaron Spelling Productions, where his projects included Vega$ and T.J. Hooker. From there, Hayes became Executive VP of Paramount Pictures Network Television.
In the late 1980s, Hayes moved to Australia’s Gold Coast to help build a production operation that would span over 25 years and produce over 300 hours of US/International television. As President of Village Roadshow Pictures Television he executive produced Sahara, In Pursuit of Honor, the remake of the television series Mission Impossible and The Thorn Birds – The Missing Years with The Wolper Organization.
- 3/22/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Written by Brenden Fletcher | Art by Elmer Damaso | Published by Titan Comics
Issue 4, which I guess means its end-of-the-first-story-arc time, this being the era of the four issue story, which coincidentally package up rather nicely into trade paperbacks. Completely unrelated of course. Sometimes of course this means stories are artificially scrunched into smaller chunks than intended, and it shows. The story suffers, as you would expect. A good writer fits his story to the space available, not just squeezing the story he wants to tell in the available space. Brenden Fletcher is a good writer, and the pacing and reveals have been perfect so far, and I’m expecting a great wrap up. Or else.
If you’ve been reading up to now, I’m assuming you now the lie of the land and don’t need a full recap. All you really need to know anyway is that Dana Sterling...
Issue 4, which I guess means its end-of-the-first-story-arc time, this being the era of the four issue story, which coincidentally package up rather nicely into trade paperbacks. Completely unrelated of course. Sometimes of course this means stories are artificially scrunched into smaller chunks than intended, and it shows. The story suffers, as you would expect. A good writer fits his story to the space available, not just squeezing the story he wants to tell in the available space. Brenden Fletcher is a good writer, and the pacing and reveals have been perfect so far, and I’m expecting a great wrap up. Or else.
If you’ve been reading up to now, I’m assuming you now the lie of the land and don’t need a full recap. All you really need to know anyway is that Dana Sterling...
- 1/16/2020
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Brenden Fletcher | Art by Elmer Damaso | Published by Titan Comics
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That was my first thought when I heard that Titan were replacing the excellent Robotech book with Robotech Remix. Since 2015, Brian Wood, Simon Furman, Marco Turini and Hendry Prasetya routinely turned in outstanding stories, both script and art wise. The characters were as well fleshed out as could have been expected with the animated source material. Like all good things though it came to an end, and on the plus side it never outstayed its welcome.
So, Robotech Remix clearly isn’t just going to be more of the same. At first glance, the art has reverted to the manga/anime style most commonly associated with Robotech, and the book is supposed to be a sequel of sorts to the last one, both of which liberally took as their...
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That was my first thought when I heard that Titan were replacing the excellent Robotech book with Robotech Remix. Since 2015, Brian Wood, Simon Furman, Marco Turini and Hendry Prasetya routinely turned in outstanding stories, both script and art wise. The characters were as well fleshed out as could have been expected with the animated source material. Like all good things though it came to an end, and on the plus side it never outstayed its welcome.
So, Robotech Remix clearly isn’t just going to be more of the same. At first glance, the art has reverted to the manga/anime style most commonly associated with Robotech, and the book is supposed to be a sequel of sorts to the last one, both of which liberally took as their...
- 10/16/2019
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Simon Furman | Art by Hendry Prasetya | Published by Titan Comics
The first 20 issues or so of this book were pretty fantastic. A great mix of action, political intrigue, mystery, goodies turning bad and baddies turning good, and pretty much every genre covered at some point. Even reality TV. But let’s not go there…As great as that all was, ending with the huge fight that devastated Earth but saw it victorious against Dolza and his Zentraedi forces, Simon Furman then revealed that this was almost a prologue to the real story. That guy. Turns out a huge event on the horizon was coming called, ahem, Event Horizon. This involved a plan to alter reality itself by The Invid’s Queen,Regess, and also the small matter of a traveller from the future, Dana Sterling, who had arrived at the same time as the Sdf-1′s original crash into Macross Island.
The first 20 issues or so of this book were pretty fantastic. A great mix of action, political intrigue, mystery, goodies turning bad and baddies turning good, and pretty much every genre covered at some point. Even reality TV. But let’s not go there…As great as that all was, ending with the huge fight that devastated Earth but saw it victorious against Dolza and his Zentraedi forces, Simon Furman then revealed that this was almost a prologue to the real story. That guy. Turns out a huge event on the horizon was coming called, ahem, Event Horizon. This involved a plan to alter reality itself by The Invid’s Queen,Regess, and also the small matter of a traveller from the future, Dana Sterling, who had arrived at the same time as the Sdf-1′s original crash into Macross Island.
- 7/19/2019
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Simon Furman | Art by Hendry Prasetya, Pasquale Qualano | Published by Titan Comics
There’s something warm and cosy about this Robotech book at the moment. That’s a compliment, by the way. It’s reliable, it’s consistent, and it always delivers. You can count on it. Sure, there some flashier books out there, but in between the constant relaunches, fiddling with characters, and having the book’s tone veer from one extreme to another, who know what the hell’s going on. This book gives the fans what they want, and if that isn’t the brief every book should be working towards I’ll eat my hat. Full disclosure, I don’t wear hats, but I’ll eat an imaginary one with gusto. But I digress.
Even though everyone still thinks Roy Fokker is dead, in reality his clone of course, writer Simon Furman is not...
There’s something warm and cosy about this Robotech book at the moment. That’s a compliment, by the way. It’s reliable, it’s consistent, and it always delivers. You can count on it. Sure, there some flashier books out there, but in between the constant relaunches, fiddling with characters, and having the book’s tone veer from one extreme to another, who know what the hell’s going on. This book gives the fans what they want, and if that isn’t the brief every book should be working towards I’ll eat my hat. Full disclosure, I don’t wear hats, but I’ll eat an imaginary one with gusto. But I digress.
Even though everyone still thinks Roy Fokker is dead, in reality his clone of course, writer Simon Furman is not...
- 3/7/2019
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Simon Furman | Art by Ivan Rodriguez, Pasquale Qualano | Published by Titan Comics
Last issue was a corker, wasn’t it? A lot happened, as those delicate strands of plotting weaved over several issues started to wrap tighter and tighter around the main story, with previously separate or seemingly unrelated storylines starting to merge to form into ‘Oh, now I get it’ moments. Furman has indeed been writing his proverbial socks off, and the art by Hendry Prasetya has been nicely consistent, so colour me surprised to see his name missing this month and replaced by Rodriguez/Qualano. Hmmm. Nothing against those two, but hoping this is just a ‘breather’ issue allowing Prasetya a little break from monthly schedules. We shall see.
Last issues shenanigans included Rick telling Minmei she may be infected by the same robotechnology he is, Lisa Hayes learning the Sdf-1 will not be allowed back...
Last issue was a corker, wasn’t it? A lot happened, as those delicate strands of plotting weaved over several issues started to wrap tighter and tighter around the main story, with previously separate or seemingly unrelated storylines starting to merge to form into ‘Oh, now I get it’ moments. Furman has indeed been writing his proverbial socks off, and the art by Hendry Prasetya has been nicely consistent, so colour me surprised to see his name missing this month and replaced by Rodriguez/Qualano. Hmmm. Nothing against those two, but hoping this is just a ‘breather’ issue allowing Prasetya a little break from monthly schedules. We shall see.
Last issues shenanigans included Rick telling Minmei she may be infected by the same robotechnology he is, Lisa Hayes learning the Sdf-1 will not be allowed back...
- 1/10/2019
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Simon Furman | Art by Hendry Prasetya | Published by Titan Comics
I think it’s safe to say we are starting to enter payoff territory with this book. While it has never had a problem cueing up nice situations, or hinting at exciting developments, it has not exactly been quick to resolve them either. Some plots, like who exactly murdered Captain Gloval, seem to have been going on so long you almost wonder if you’d be bothered when we find out who did it. Now, though, I sense a speeding up of events, a slow jog turning into a canter into a run. With so many juicy plots to juggle I guess Furman had no other choice than to launch full speed ahead. Which is nice.
The main storyline has essentially splintered into three parts. We have the events on board the Sdf-1, where Rick has gone blind but gained some robovision power,...
I think it’s safe to say we are starting to enter payoff territory with this book. While it has never had a problem cueing up nice situations, or hinting at exciting developments, it has not exactly been quick to resolve them either. Some plots, like who exactly murdered Captain Gloval, seem to have been going on so long you almost wonder if you’d be bothered when we find out who did it. Now, though, I sense a speeding up of events, a slow jog turning into a canter into a run. With so many juicy plots to juggle I guess Furman had no other choice than to launch full speed ahead. Which is nice.
The main storyline has essentially splintered into three parts. We have the events on board the Sdf-1, where Rick has gone blind but gained some robovision power,...
- 11/16/2018
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Simon Furman | Art by Hendry Prasetya | Published by Titan Comics
Last issue was the best for a good few issues, with a lot happening to really drive on storylines that had started to slow to a glacial speed. Obviously writers plot out their story arcs, or ‘beats’, over multiple issues so you expect to get some issues that tread water, but this seemed to happen every other issue of late so I hope we are moving upwards and onwards from now on. A whole lot happened last week, with Rick developing a strange matrix-like ability to view things in a technological way, Breetai essentially being sacked as Zentraedi commander, and Roy being shot by,er, Roy. Another Roy that is. Fun stuff.
This issue starts with…. a ‘The Story So far’ page, plus a cast of characters page. two things that warm the cockles of this old heart.
Last issue was the best for a good few issues, with a lot happening to really drive on storylines that had started to slow to a glacial speed. Obviously writers plot out their story arcs, or ‘beats’, over multiple issues so you expect to get some issues that tread water, but this seemed to happen every other issue of late so I hope we are moving upwards and onwards from now on. A whole lot happened last week, with Rick developing a strange matrix-like ability to view things in a technological way, Breetai essentially being sacked as Zentraedi commander, and Roy being shot by,er, Roy. Another Roy that is. Fun stuff.
This issue starts with…. a ‘The Story So far’ page, plus a cast of characters page. two things that warm the cockles of this old heart.
- 10/10/2018
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Simon Furman | Art by Marco Turini | Published by Titan Comics
Last issue saw Brian Wood passing the Robotech torch on to Simon Furman, although with a plotting credit for last issue and this Wood holds Furman’s hand a little as he gets up to speed on the book. If you hadn’t looked at last issues credits you wouldn’t really have noticed the difference, Furman being the experienced safe pair of hands he is. Apparently he had some sort of background writing other metallic characters of some description…
So last issue was all about the continuing ramifications of Captain Gloval’s ‘death’. I’m a little unconvinced that Gloval really is dead, but we need to see how this all plays out before we really know. In his absence Lisa Hayes has to step up as acting Captain, a role she struggles in. Not because she...
Last issue saw Brian Wood passing the Robotech torch on to Simon Furman, although with a plotting credit for last issue and this Wood holds Furman’s hand a little as he gets up to speed on the book. If you hadn’t looked at last issues credits you wouldn’t really have noticed the difference, Furman being the experienced safe pair of hands he is. Apparently he had some sort of background writing other metallic characters of some description…
So last issue was all about the continuing ramifications of Captain Gloval’s ‘death’. I’m a little unconvinced that Gloval really is dead, but we need to see how this all plays out before we really know. In his absence Lisa Hayes has to step up as acting Captain, a role she struggles in. Not because she...
- 1/24/2018
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Simon Furman | Art by Marco Turini | Published by Titan Comics
The common practice these days when a new book is launched, or a tired property is relaunched, is to attach a top creator to it, have him or her do their bit to get it off the ground, then pass the baton on. The hope is that enough groundwork has been laid, and interest generated, that readers will stay with the book even though the start creator leaves. Coincidentally you may notice Brian Wood is credited just as a plotter this issue, with Simon Furman coming on board as scripter. Wood has done a good job giving this incarnation of Robotech its own feel, and the characters their own voices, but I am a little unsure if he has done enough to just pass it off. Time will tell of course, and Simon Furman is a very safe pair of hands.
The common practice these days when a new book is launched, or a tired property is relaunched, is to attach a top creator to it, have him or her do their bit to get it off the ground, then pass the baton on. The hope is that enough groundwork has been laid, and interest generated, that readers will stay with the book even though the start creator leaves. Coincidentally you may notice Brian Wood is credited just as a plotter this issue, with Simon Furman coming on board as scripter. Wood has done a good job giving this incarnation of Robotech its own feel, and the characters their own voices, but I am a little unsure if he has done enough to just pass it off. Time will tell of course, and Simon Furman is a very safe pair of hands.
- 12/20/2017
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
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