Isabelle McNally

The Bates Motel set has been demolished

Posted 8 years ago

Although the classic PSYCHO house and motel exteriors still stand at Universal Studios Hollywood, they were not used as a filming location for the A&E television series Bates Motel. Instead, for the last five years a replica of the house...

Check in on Norman with a synopsis and promo for Bates Motel’s final season

Posted 8 years ago

With the season four finale of A&E's Bates Motel, the show officially entered PSYCHO territory, providing the set-up for Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) to be running the titular business himself while keeping the corpse of his mother Norma (Vera Farmiga)...

Rihanna spotted playing Marion Crane on the set of Bates Motel

Posted 8 years ago

This may not seem like the most earth-shattering update, but when an actress has been spotted on a set while playing a new version of one of the most well-known characters in horror history you can't just let the images...

Bates Motel to premiere its final season this February

Posted 8 years ago

Bates Motel has certainly left us with a lot of questions. What will happen to Norman (Freddie Highmore) and Norma Bates (Vera Farmiga) as the fifth and final season converges with the timeline of PSYCHO? How closely will they hew to...

There’s a new sheriff in town: Brooke Smith joins Bates Motel

Posted 9 years ago

Bates Motel is still casting its fifth and final season, and while they haven't made another decision quite on the high-profile level of the controversial choice to have Rihanna star as Marion Crane, they've been quietly assembling a cast of seasoned TV...

Bates Motel casts a Norma Bates doppelganger for its final season

Posted 9 years ago

The final season of Bates Motel is gearing up to be a doozy. When last we heard from the show, they were making the truly inscrutable decision to cast Rihanna as Janet Leigh's ill-fated showerer Marion Crane, but now we're...