Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown” Final Season Airs This Fall on CNN

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Anthony Bourdain in Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)

Almost eight weeks since the death of Anthony Bourdain, CNN has decided to air the final season of his show, Parts Unknown.

According to ET, the seven-episode season finale will premiere in Fall 2018, including one episode – a trip to Kenya with W. Kamau Bell, the hose of CNN’s United Shades of America­ – which was completed before Bourdain’s death last June where he was found dead in his hotel room in France. It will be the last to have his signature narration.

The executive VP of talent and content at CNN, Amy Entelis, gave further details about the final season in a recent interview with Los Angeles Times. The final season will use audio of the famous chef collected while shooting on location and will also feature follow-up interviews. On top of the episode filmed in Kenya, there will be episodes that contain Bourdain’s trips to Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the Big Bend area of Texas along the border of Mexico and the Asturias region of Spain and Indonesia.

The second-to-the-last episode will have cast and crew discussing about the making of the series, including outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage. The final part will be devoted to “how Tony affected the world.”

“Each one will feel slightly different depending on what’s gathered in the field,” Entelis told the Times. “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.”