Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown will get one final season

Prior to Anthony Bourdain's death in June, enough footage was shot to create a final season of his hit CNN show Parts Unknown, the network announced Wednesday.

The episodes will premiere in the fall. The acclaimed chef, author, and television host finished one full episode before he died by suicide, traveling to Kenya with United Shades of America host W. Kamau Bell. This will be the last episode to have Bourdain's narration. One of the show's final episodes will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Parts Unknown, and the last hour will focus on the effect Bourdain had on the world, according to Amy Entelis, CNN's executive vice president of talent and content.

To finish the other episodes — set in Manhattan's Lower East Side, Texas, Spain, and Indonesia — producers are using audio of Bourdain captured while on location, and conducting follow-up interviews. "Each one will feel slightly different depending on what's gathered in the field," Entelis told the Los Angeles 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." Parts Unknown, launched in 2013, is one of CNN's most successful programs.

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