Bates Motel

Finding Your Roots

A "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.

Mystery

Crime

Drama

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Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees.  Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.

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Date	Bates Motel	Finding Your Roots
Apr 24, 2026Apr 24, 2026	0.629	0.627
Apr 23, 2026Apr 23, 2026	0.576	0.62
Apr 22, 2026Apr 22, 2026	0.631	0.793
Apr 21, 2026Apr 21, 2026	0.662	0.611
Apr 20, 2026Apr 20, 2026	0.648	0.572
Apr 19, 2026Apr 19, 2026	0.79	0.547
Apr 18, 2026Apr 18, 2026	0.805	0.47

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