CNN will say goodbye to Anthony Bourdain with a final season this fall

CNN has enough material to create a final season of "Parts Unknown," starring the late celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, which will premiere this fall, The Los Angeles Times reports. Only one episode — a trip to Kenya with W. Kamau Bell, the host of CNN’s "United Shades of America" — was completed before Bourdain took his own life in June.

It will be the last to have Bourdain’s written narration, which gives the series its personal tone. Four others set in Manhattan’s Lower East Side — in addition to the Big Bend area of Texas along the border of Mexico, the Asturias region of Spain and Indonesia — will be completed by the directors who filmed them for Bourdain’s Zero Point Zero production company, said Amy Entelis, the executive vice president of talent and content at CNN who oversees the network’s original series and films, and launched "Parts Unknown" in 2013.

They will use audio of Bourdain gathered while shooting on location. Follow-up interviews are also being shot to help tie elements of the programs together.

"Each one will feel slightly different depending on what’s gathered in the field," Entelis said. "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."

The penultimate episode will have cast and crew talking about the making of the series, utilizing outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage. The last hour will be devoted to "how Tony affected the world," Entelis said, drawing on fan reactions to his program and sidekicks and friends who appeared on the series. There are no plans to draw on the show’s archives beyond the final two episodes.

"We don’t want to start putting things together that weren’t meant to be," Entelis said.