Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
TV Show · Documentary · Travel

Anthony Bourdain had no reservations about a move to CNN. Shortly after concluding an eight-season stint at the helm of his popular Travel Channel series, the equally popular Emmy-winning host came to the news network searching for `Parts Unknown'. In the hourlong weekend series - similar in premise to Travel's `No Reservations' - Bourdain explores the world to, he says, `eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice ... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get'. Enticed by the opportunity to experience cultures rarely visited by American TV, such as in the Congo, Libya and Myanmar, the chef and best-selling author also takes viewers to Colombia, Peru, Morocco and, closer to home, Koreatown in Los Angeles.

2013 · 40m
Starring Anthony Bourdain
Director Asia Argento, Tom Vitale

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Myanmar
    Anthony and his crew travel to Myanmar and experience the local cuisines of a country that had been, until recently, off-limits to outsiders.
    40 min
  • EPISODE 2
    Los Angeles
    Tony takes a look at a different side of Los Angeles. Not the ritzy, high-class Beverly Hills and Hollywood side, but Koreatown, where he finds a closely woven community still feeling the impact of the 1992 Rodney King riots.
    40 min
  • EPISODE 3
    Colombia
    Tony explores the country from the mountains down to the Caribbean coast to the coca leaf growing inlands that were formerly controlled by drug cartels as the public face of Colombia changes for the better.
    40 min
  • EPISODE 4
    Canada
    Bourdain travels to remote areas within the province of Quebec where he samples local delicacies, explores ice fishing and spends time with two of the most brilliant chefs in Canada.
    40 min
  • EPISODE 5
    Tangier
    Tony explores the Interzone, where artists like Burroughs, Bowles, and the Rolling Stones sought escape from Western moral prohibitions and the possibilities of great empty spaces.
    40 min
  • EPISODE 6
    Libya
    Bourdain looks at the country through personal stories, food and the music of anti-Qaddafi rapper ex-pats who returned to fight.
    40 min

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Cast & Crew

  • Anthony Bourdain
    Host
  • Asia Argento
    Director
  • Tom Vitale
    Director
  • Anthony Bourdain
    Producer
  • Christopher Collins
    Producer
  • Lydia Tenaglia
    Producer
  • S‌Z
    Sandra Zweig
    Producer
  • Tom Vitale
    Producer
  • Anthony Bourdain
    Writer

About

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

Documentary

Anthony Bourdain had no reservations about a move to CNN. Shortly after concluding an eight-season stint at the helm of his popular Travel Channel series, the equally popular Emmy-winning host came to the news network searching for `Parts Unknown'. In the hourlong weekend series - similar in premise to Travel's `No Reservations' - Bourdain explores the world to, he says, `eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice ... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get'. Enticed by the opportunity to experience cultures rarely visited by American TV, such as in the Congo, Libya and Myanmar, the chef and best-selling author also takes viewers to Colombia, Peru, Morocco and, closer to home, Koreatown in Los Angeles.

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CNN
Released
2013
Region of Origin
United States
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Africa, Middle East, and India

  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Botswana
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Cape Verde
  • Egypt
  • Eswatini
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • India
  • Israel
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • Mauritius
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Niger (English)
  • Oman
  • Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia
  • South Africa
  • Sri Lanka
  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan
  • Uganda
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Zimbabwe

Asia Pacific

  • Australia
  • Cambodia
  • Fiji
  • 香港 (廣東話–繁體)
  • Indonesia (English)
  • 日本
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
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  • Malaysia (English)
  • Micronesia, Federated States of
  • Mongolia
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  • Vietnam

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