Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknownis an American travel and food show onCNNthat premiered on April 14, 2013. In the show,Anthony Bourdaintravels the world uncovering lesser-known places and exploring their cultures and cuisine.The show won twelvePrimetime Emmy Awardsout of 31 nominations, as well as a 2013Peabody Award.The digital series Explore Parts Unknown, an editorial partnership withRoads & Kingdoms, won aPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series.Parts Unknownaired the last collection of episodes on CNN in the autumn of 2018. The series finale, titled "Lower East Side"—bringing Bourdain's culinary travelogue full circle back to Bourdain's hometown ofNew York—aired November 11, 2018.
Bourdain was working on an episode of the show centered inStrasbourg,France, at the time of his death on June 8, 2018.
Season 4 aired from September to December 2014.
Season 5 aired from April to June 2015.
Season 6 aired from September to November 2015.
Source:The season finale (Buenos Aires) was moved to Season 8 when its original broadcast was pre-empted by coverage of theOrlando nightclub shooting.
Season 8 aired from September to December 2016, and notably features an interview with U.S. presidentBarack Obama.Episode 8 (Buenos Aires) was originally scheduled as the Season 7 finale, but was pre-empted by coverage of theOrlando nightclub shooting.
Season 9 was broadcast from April to July 2017.The final two episodes were delayed one week when coverage of theattack near the Finsbury Park mosquepre-empted the June 18, 2017, broadcast.
Season 10 premiered on October 1, 2017.In the premiere, Bourdain traveled toSingapore. Other locations include theFrench Alps,Lagos,Pittsburgh,Sri Lanka,Puerto Rico,Seattle, andSouthern Italy.On November 12, 2017, the show was pre-empted when Bourdain presented his documentaryJeremiah Tower, The Last Magnificent, exploring America's first celebrity chef.
Season 11 premiered on April 29, 2018, and took Bourdain on excursions toWest Virginia,Uruguay,Newfoundland,Armenia,Hong Kong,Berlin,Louisiana, andBhutan.
On June 8, 2018, Bourdain was found dead by his friend and collaboratorÉric Ripertof an apparentsuicide by hangingin his room at Le Chambard hotel inKaysersberg, France. They had been filming an episode in nearbyStrasbourg.
In August 2018, CNN announced that it would broadcast a final season of the series, with a premiere date later set for September 23, 2018. As only one episode (which featured a trip toKenyawithW. Kamau Bell, host of fellow CNN docuseriesUnited Shades of America) was fully completed before Bourdain's death, four of the season's episodes (on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Indonesia, Spain's mountainous Asturias region, and the Texas "Big Bend" area bordering Mexico) were completed using narration and additional interviews provided by guests who were featured in each episode, while the other two episodes will act as retrospectives focusing on the show's production, and a tribute to the impact of Bourdain's life.The episode shot in Alsace at the time of Bourdain's death was not aired; it would have featured scenes of Ripert showing Bourdain around sights and restaurants along theFranco-German border.
The closing credits of the final episode, which featured a tour of theLower East SideofManhattan, ran while a cover of theJohnny Thunderssong "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" played. Prior to his death, Bourdain askedParts Unknownmusic director Michael Ruffino to record a cover version for the show; the recording was not made until after Bourdain's death, and Ruffino asked Bourdain's daughter Ariane to contribute backing vocals.
The series has not been released onDVDorBlu-ray. Besides being broadcast onCNN, the show has been made available on demand through cable on-demand services as well as from streaming video providers includingHBO Max(in the United States) andNetflix(internationally). The series is also available for purchase on theiTunes Store,Vudu, andAmazon Video. CNN has also released the series as an audio-only podcast.
The show was shot inhigh definition, and made available for streaming in bothstandard definitionand high definition.
Following the conclusion of the final season, a special edition collection of the entire series, featuring a Prime Cuts: Through The Years compilation has been made available for purchase on the iTunes Store. On May 27, 2020, with the launch ofHBO Max, the entire series was made available for streaming, omitting the Prime Cuts episodes. Following the launch ofCNN+on March 29, 2022, the full episode library moved to that service, leaving HBO Max with only 8 episodes. Despite CNN+'s quick shut down just 30 days later, the full series has yet to return to HBO Max. On August 19, 2022, the full episode library began streaming on Discovery Plus as part of an extensive library of CNN shows that moved there following the shutdown of CNN+.