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Bates Motel
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★ 8.1A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series begins after the death of Norma's husband, when she purchases a motel located in a coastal Oregon town so she and Norman can start a new life.
- Aired
- 2013–2017
- Seasons
- 5 · 50 episodes
- Status
- Ended
- Created by
- Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin, Anthony Cipriano
- Network
- A&E
- Genres
- Drama, Crime, Mystery
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TV series
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- A&E
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Runtime
- 60 min
- TVMaze rating
- 8/10
Key facts
- Genre
- Mystery Psychological horror Drama
- Based on
- Characters from Psycho , by Robert Bloch
- Developed by
- Carlton Cuse Kerry Ehrin Anthony Cipriano
- Starring
- Vera Farmiga Freddie Highmore Max Thieriot Olivia Cooke Nicola Peltz Nestor Carbonell Kenny Johnson
- Composer
- Chris Bacon
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English
- Number span no of episodes
- 50 ( list of episodes )
- Executive producers
- Mark Wolper Roy Lee John Powers Middleton Kerry Ehrin Carlton Cuse Vera Farmiga Tucker Gates
- Producers
- Justis Greene Steve Kornacki Alyson Evans Scott Kosar Erica Lipez Christopher Nelson Tim Southam Jamie Kaye Wheeler Cory Bird
- Production locations
- Vancouver , British Columbia
- Cinematography
- Thomas Yatsko John S. Bartley
- Editors
- Christopher Nelson Sarah Boyd Ryan Neatha Johnson Vikash Patel Edward Warschilka
- Running time
- 40–47 minutes
- Production companies
- Cuse Productions Kerry Ehrin Productions Universal Television
- Network
- A&E
- Release
- March 18, 2013 ( 2013-03-18 ) –, April 24, 2017 ( 2017-04-24 )
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Encyclopedic overview
Bates Motel is an American psychological horror drama television series based on characters from the 1959 novel Psycho by Robert Bloch that aired on A&E from March 18, 2013, to April 24, 2017. It was developed by Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin, and Anthony Cipriano.
A "contemporary prequel" to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho, it depicts the lives of Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) and his mother Norma (Vera Farmiga) prior to the events portrayed in the film, albeit in a different fictional town (White Pine Bay, Oregon, as opposed to Fairvale, California) and in a modern-day setting. However, the final season loosely adapts the plot of the novel Psycho. Max Thieriot and Olivia Cooke both starred as part of the main cast throughout the series's run. After recurring in the first season, Néstor Carbonell was added to the main cast from season two onward. Both Nicola Peltz and Kenny Johnson had main cast roles at different points throughout the series’s run.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bates Motel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.