While viewers get a look into the past of killer Norman Bates, A&E is hoping Bates Motel will bring in killer ratings. Will the show end up being cancelled or will it be renewed for a second season? Time will tell.
This TV show serves as a prequel to the Psycho movie. The cast includes Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Olivia Cooke, Nicola Peltz, Keegan Connor Tracy, Max Thieriot, Nestor Carbonell, Mike Vogel, and Richard Harmon.
The TV show’s ratings are the best way to tell if it will be cancelled or renewed for a second season. The first season of Bates Motel airs Monday nights and there are 10 episodes.
These figures will be updated as the weeks progress so be sure to bookmark and return to this page:
Final season averages: 1.2 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 2.75 million total viewers.
Episode 01-10: Monday, 05/20/13
1.2 demo rating (+20% change) with 2.70 million (+9% change).
Season averages: 1.20 in the demo with 2.75 million.
Episode 01-09: Monday, 05/13/13
1.0 demo rating (-23% change) with 2.48 million (-9% change).
Season averages: 1.20 in the demo with 2.75 million.
Episode 01-08: Monday, 05/06/13
1.3 demo rating (0% change) with 2.71 million (-9% change).
Season averages: 1.23 in the demo with 2.79 million.
Episode 01-07: Monday, 04/29/13
1.3 demo rating (0% change) with 2.99 million (+2% change).
Season averages: 1.21 in the demo with 2.80 million.
Episode 01-06: Monday, 04/22/13
1.3 demo rating (+18% change) with 2.93 million (+10% change).
Season averages: 1.20 in the demo with 2.77 million.
Episode 01-05: Monday, 04/15/13
1.1 demo rating (+10% change) with 2.66 million (+16% change).
Season averages: 1.18 in the demo with 2.73 million.
Episode 01-04: Monday, 04/08/13
1.0 demo rating (-17% change) with 2.30 million (-19% change).
Season averages: 1.20 in the demo with 2.75 million.
UPDATE: Bates Motel has been renewed for a second season of 10 episodes.
Episode 01-03: Monday, 04/01/13
1.2 demo rating (-8% change) with 2.82 million (-1% change).
Season averages: 1.27 in the demo with 2.90 million.
Episode 01-02: Monday, 03/25/13
1.3 demo rating (0% change) with 2.84 million (-7% change).
Season averages: 1.30 in the demo with 2.94 million.
Episode 01-01: Monday, 03/18/13
1.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 3.04 million total viewers.
Season averages: 1.30 in the demo with 3.04 million.
Cable ratings are typically released within a day or so of the show’s airing, except for in the case of weekends and holidays. They are sometimes harder to come by so there may be occasional delays or gaps.
What do you think? Do you like the Bates Motel TV series? Do you think that it should be cancelled or renewed for season two?
Love this show….look forward to Mondays because of this show. Every episode is better than the last. Keep them coming please.
Love this show glad its being renew
Renew for another season! This show keeps me on the edge of my seat! Great dialogue, great cast, great plot!
The last thing we need is more shows with women being raped tortured and murdered. Great lesson for boys.
I love the show, please renew.
BATES MOTEL GREAT !!! LOVE IT !!! AS GREAT AS AMERICAN HORROR STORY THE TWO BEST SHOWS ON TV !!!!! KEEP IT COMING !!!
I SECOND that opinion! And with both shows too!
It is an awesome show with a VERY convincing cast! And to those who say “Well, if it’s supposed to be a prequel to Norman Bates’ Psycho, then why do they have cell phones?”
Really? It’s Hollywood people . . . they can make it look like dinosaurs are roaming the earth.
Keep up the good work and way to go with the renewal!
Love it!
Please leave this show on….LOVE IT !!!!!!
wow! this first 3 episodes have maintain the ratings and the quality is pretty good too.
Yes! A&E please renew Bates. It had so much potential
Love it. The best show since American Horror Story
we think they’re doing a good job so far. We would like to see it last we are enjoying it.
It’s not working. The characters are mis-cast. Tony Perkins as the original Norman is too emblazoned in our minds to accept anyone else and the mother is too young and not eccentric enough. I thought the original mother was around 65 or 70, but she was dead. The new mother is not how I imagined the old mother to be if she had been younger. It just doesn’t work but I haven’t yet stopped watching it because I want it to work. Definitely no second season.
You are supposed to view this show with an open mind and not expect an exact remake of Alfred Hitchcock “Psycho” identical in details to the last thread. Most of the people who have seen Psycho would’t show much interest or curiosity towards this matter. It’s made in a contemporary time period to draw more audiences in with a refreshing tone, with surprises and plot twists and turns to keep the audience always wondering of the next step.
Was starting to be another “teen” show but the last epy shows that there’s something weird with the town. Might be worth watching a little longer.
Really good. I think Alfred would be proud !