The network Friday announced it is in early development on Bates Motel, a potential series from Universal Television for A&E that would serve as a prequel to the Alfred Hitchcock 1960 classic Psycho.

For Rihanna, meanwhile, Bates Motel marks her biggest scripted acting role to date.The casting comes after the singer revealed that she was a big fan of the A&E series in a Vanity Fair cover story ...