Season 1 (2013) Season 2 (2013) Season 3 (2014) Season 4 (2014) Season 4 aired from September to December 2014.
Season 5 (2015) Season 5 aired from April to June 2015.
Season 6 (2015) Season 6 aired from September to November 2015.
Season 7 (2016) Source: The season finale (Buenos Aires) was moved to Season 8 when its original broadcast was pre-empted by coverage of the
Orlando nightclub shooting.
Season 8 (2016) Season 8 aired from September to December 2016, and notably features an interview with U.S. president
Barack Obama. Episode 8 (Buenos Aires) was originally scheduled as the Season 7 finale, but was pre-empted by coverage of the
Orlando nightclub shooting.
Season 9 (2017) Season 9 was broadcast from April to July 2017. The final two episodes were delayed one week when coverage of the
attack near the Finsbury Park mosque pre-empted the June 18, 2017, broadcast.
Season 10 (2017) Season 10 premiered on October 1, 2017. In the premiere, Bourdain traveled to
Singapore. Other locations include the
French Alps,
Lagos,
Pittsburgh,
Sri Lanka,
Puerto Rico,
Seattle, and
Southern Italy. On November 12, 2017, the show was pre-empted when Bourdain presented his documentary
Jeremiah Tower, The Last Magnificent, exploring America's first celebrity chef.
Season 11 (2018) Season 11 premiered on April 29, 2018, and took Bourdain on excursions to
West Virginia,
Uruguay,
Newfoundland,
Armenia,
Hong Kong,
Berlin,
Louisiana, and
Bhutan.
Season 12 (2018) On June 8, 2018, Bourdain was found dead by his friend and collaborator
Éric Ripert of an apparent
suicide by hanging in his room at Le Chambard hotel in
Kaysersberg, France. They had been filming an episode in nearby
Strasbourg. 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 to
Kenya with
W. Kamau Bell, host of fellow CNN docuseries
United 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 the
Franco-German border. The closing credits of the final episode, which featured a tour of the
Lower East Side of
Manhattan, ran while a cover of the
Johnny Thunders song "
You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" played. Prior to his death, Bourdain asked
Parts Unknown music 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. == Availability ==