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EXCLUSIVE: Fries!, a documentary about the globe’s obsession with the fried potato, has currently started filming from the Emmy-winning production company behind Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Zero Point Zero (ZPZ). Emmy and James Beard Award-winner Michael Steed (photo above), is directing the non-fiction title…

Anthony Bourdain’s last meal on the final original episode of CNN’s Parts Unknown was as simple as could be: Hard-boiled eggs served up by his old friend, the musician and artist John Lurie, capping an episode devoted to their old stomping ground, Manhattan’s Lower East Side. “I came for heroin and I came for music,&#8221…

Forget This is Us. The emotional roller-coaster of the TV season may have been tonight’s world premiere of the Season 12 premiere of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown at the Tribeca TV Festival. The crowd at Spring Studios laughed, cried, oohed and ahhed as the episode set in Kenya unfolded. CNN has announced five…

UPDATED with full list of winners: Anthony Bourdain’s CNN series and Craig Zadan’s final live musical Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert led an emotional Night 2 of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday, with the shows scoring six and five wins respectively, including taking the top prizes in their fields. The…

For a third consecutive year, FX reigned as top winner at Television Critics Association (TCA) Awards feting programming and performances in the 2017-2018 TV season. Three of FX’s four awards went to Cold War thriller The Americans, including Program Of The Year, Best Drama, and a Drama Series Individual Achievement…

CNN plans to air a final season of the late Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown, with one episode already complete and four others – some set in Manhattan’s Lower East Side – will be finished by the directors who filmed them. The news came in an exclusive Los Angeles Times report today. The sole episode completed before…

Anthony Bourdain’s popular CNN travel and food docu-series, Parts Unknown, will continue to be available on Netflix in the U.S. “for months to come.” Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown had been scheduled to leave Netflix US on June 16 when the streaming platform’s license deal for the show expired. Following Bourdain’s…

Bostonians did not get a helping of Thanksgiving porn after all. Numerous media outlets and a big segment of the internet were fooled by a clumsy Twitter hoaxer today, with news reports claiming that Boston-area cable service provider RCN aired a half hour’s worth of hardcore pornography in place of CNN’s Anthony Bourd…

CNN, looking for some good press after a string of reports on its widespread Turner 2020 layoffs, this morning announced it had renewed for additional seasons This Is Life With Lisa Ling, Somebody's Gotta Do It With Mike Rowe and Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown: From today’s announcement: Three of CNN's successful…

The following are short interviews from Awardsline’s dialogue section. Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum are nominated for Lifetime’s Project Runway in the Host for Reality/Reality Competition Program category. The duo took the Emmy home last year for their hosting duties on the fashionista show, and Klum won in 2009.  Project…

TV in general pretty much underperformed Sunday night, but the season premieres of Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown and Morgan Spurlock Inside Man both surged over their previous season bows by double digits. The 9 PM Season 3 opener of Bourdain’s hybrid foodie travelogue — which visited Punjab, India — posted 325,000…

FremantleMedia Buys Global Format Rights To 'Fittest Family' FremantleMedia has secured the global format rights to Animo TV/Kite Entertainment's Fittest Family. Currently airing on Irish pubcaster RTÉ One as Ireland's Fittest Family, the six-part series features 12 uber-fit and sports-mad families compete for the…