Almost eight weeks after saying goodbye to Anthony Bourdain, CNN is getting ready to say goodbye to his series Parts Unknown too.
In an interview with the the Los Angeles Times published Wednesday, Amy Entelis — the executive vice president of talent and content at CNN who oversees the network’s original series and films — revealed that Bourdain’s program would air its final season this fall, consisting of five episodes, only one of which was completed before Bourdain’s death by suicide in June.
“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.”
Bourdain’s written narration will accompany the installment featuring a trip to Kenya with W. Kamau Bell, the host of CNN’s “United Shades of America.”
Entelis told the Times four other episodes set in Manhattan’s Lower East Side — in addition to the Big Bend area of Texas along the border of Mexico, the Asturias region of Spain and Indonesia — will be completed by the directors who filmed them for Bourdain’s Zero Point Zero production company.
The network plans to use audio Bourdain gathered while shooting on location and include follow-up interviews to bring the programs togethe
