A&E is giving up on scripted TV
Bates Motel just wrapped up its five-season run on A&E a few days ago, but unlike Norman Bates himself, the network has no interest in holding onto a mummified corpse it doesn’t have any use for. In A&E’s case, though, the mummified corpse is actually scripted television in general: According to Deadline, it’s completely abandoning scripted shows in favor of nonfiction programming. Bates Motel was the only scripted show to premiere on A&E since 2013 that lasted more than a single season, with older hits The Glades and Longmire having already been canceled a few years back (though the latter has continued on Netflix since then).