Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown” to Return for Final Season

Anthony Bourdain’s legacy will carry on. 

A final season of Bourdain’s Parts Unknown will be aired on CNN. 

The news comes just two months after the death of Bourdain in France where he was filming an episode of Parts Unknown. He was 61-years-old.

A rep for CNN confirmed that Bourdain’s will posthumously return to the small screen for a seven-episode season. ET has confirmed that one episode includes Bourdain’s signature narration during his trip to Kenya. 

In an interview with The New York Times Amy Entelis, 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.”

Parts Unknown is scheduled to debut in the fall.