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
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