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The Producers Guild of America's ongoing efforts to ensure health insurance benefits for all its members just got an intergalactic boost. In a significant step towards greater coverage, the homes of E.T., the latest iterations of Star Trek, a Justice League and a Star Wars flick or two have all…

Aaron Baiers has been named President of Television for Alex Kurtzman's CBS Studios-based production company, Secret Hideout. Baiers, who was most recently SVP of Television, will succeed Heather Kadin, who is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. Baiers is getting the promotion after a 10-year tenure as…

EXCLUSIVE: Heather Kadin is going out on her own. After 12 years of running a TV production company, Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout and its predecessor, Kurtzman and Bob Orci’s K/O Paper Products, as President of Television, Kadin is leaving to pursue other opportunities. Her exit is still being finalized, and it is…

Alex Kurtzman, the top producer on CBS Studios’ roster and architect of the studio’s Star Trek universe, has closed a massive new nine-figure overall deal there for his Secret Hideout banner. No financial terms are being disclosed but I hear the pact is in the $150 million range, putting Kurtzman in the very top tier…

EXCLUSIVE: The epic, years-long battle between Al Capone and Eliot Ness, who clashed on the biggest stage in the world on their way to becoming ultimate American enemies, is the subject of a new TV series in early development at Showtime, from Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout, run by Heather Kadin, and CBS Studios where…

EXCLUSIVE: Bestselling author Hugh Howey’s novel Half Way Home is in the works for the small screen. Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout and CBS Television Studios, where Kurtzman is under a deal, have optioned rights to the book to develop as a television series. Half Way Home is a gritty tale of a group of kids who…

EXCLUSIVE: The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t' With Her Mind, the buzzy sci-fi novel, is set to be adapted for television after Secret Hideout nabbed the rights in a competitive situation. Deadline understands that Alex Kurtzman's company, which is behind the Star Trek franchise and has an overall deal at CBS Television…

Robyn Johnson has been promoted to development executive at Alex Kurtzman's Secret Hideout. Johnson, who got her start on films such as Cinderella and Edge of Tomorrow, will work with a team headed by Secret Hideout’s president Heather Kadin and Aaron Baiers, SVP of television. The company recently extended its deal…

Universal’s making room for Alex Kurtzman and his Secret Hideout shingle. They’ve signed a three-year production deal with the writer-director-producer’s new banner, which is expanding its operations on the studio lot. Kurtzman, who first pacted with Universal in a two-year deal in 2012 with Star Trek co-scribe…