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Keck's Exclusives First Look: Norman Bates Gets Creepy in Bates Motel

• Mar 4, 2013 07:10 AM ET
• by William Keck

What happens in a motel bathroom on the March 18 premiere of A&E's Bates Motel foreshadows the grisly fate that one day befalls the tragic fugitive Marion Crane. And though it will be a while before young Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) dresses up in his mommy's clothes, there are other warning signs of... read more

Why Foreign Actors Are Taking Over American TV

• Jan 31, 2013 08:59 AM ET
• by Ileane Rudolph

Talk about outsourcing! An increasing number of TV's all-American cops, firefighters and doctors are being played by actors not from the U.S. of A.

Of course, foreign actors have been hiding their accents to play Americans for years. House's Hugh Laurie was so skilled at trading in his upper-crust Cambridge lilt to play the titular grumpy doctor that many viewers were shocked to find out he was British when he spoke with his real voice on an awards show or during interviews... read more

Check Out the First Photo from A&E's Bates Motel

• Nov 20, 2012 05:10 PM ET
• by Natalie Abrams

A&E's Psycho-inspired series Bates Motel has come to life.

From Lost's Carlton Cuse, the drama is... read more

Keck's Exclusives: Bates Motel Casts Its Norman

• Sep 14, 2012 05:10 PM ET
• by William Keck

After an exhaustive search for a young man to take over the iconic role immortalized by Anthony Perkins in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece Psycho, A&E's new prequel series, Bates Motel, has cast its Norman Bates.

The part has gone to... read more