Anthony Bourdain will posthumously return to the small screen for a final season of Parts Unknown.
A final season of Bourdain’s series will be aired on CNN. The news comes just two months after Bourdain was found dead in France during filming. His death was ruled a suicide. He was 61-years-old at the time.
The seven-episode season includes one episode filmed in Kenya that will feature Bourdain’s signature narration.
In an interview with The New York Times Amy Entelis, the executive vice president of talent and content at CNN said that aside from the episode filmed in Kenya, episodes will include Bourdain’s trips to Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the Big Bend area of Texas and the Asturias region of Spain and Indonesia. Four episodes will be finished by the directors who filmed them. Follow up interviews as well as audio of Bourdain captured on location will be used to fill in gaps in the narration.
“Each one will feel slightly different depending on what’s gathered in the field,” Entelis said. “They will have the full presence of Tony because you’ll see him, you’ll hear him, you’ll watch him. That layer of his narration will be missing, but it will be replaced by other voices of people who are in the episodes.”
Bourdain just recently posthumously nominated for two 2018 Emmy Awards. Parts Unknown scored six nods overall.
