NEW A vastly improved search engine helps you find the latest on companies, business leaders, and news more easily.<doc-sep>Story highlights Netflix was set to stop airing the show on June 16 Online petition to keep the show gathered more than 6,000 signatures (CNN) — Fans mourning the loss of Anthony Bourdain have succeeded in convincing Netflix to continue streaming his show. His series “Parts Unknown” was set to end its run on the streaming giant this month. Bourdain, 61, took his own life last week in France while working on an upcoming episode of his award-winning CNN series. A close friend, French chef Eric Ripert, found him unresponsive in his hotel room. CNN’s Anthony Bourdain dead at 61 There was an immediate outpouring of grief for the former chef whose show premiered on CNN five years ago and took viewers on a trek around the globe in search of food and culture. From $2 sandwiches to travel – how Bourdain inspired you Fans began lobbying Netflix online to continue streaming “Parts Unknown” beyond June 16, which had been the announced date of it ending. Tanner Palin started a petition to keep the show, and it attracted more than 6,000 signatures. “Bourdain lived life like he treated so many of the dishes he consumed. By gnawing it to the bone. So many of us could learn to live just a little more like that,” Palin wrote in an intro to the online petition. “Netflix, this show isn’t just entertaining. It is heartwarming, it is honest and it benefits human kind. Please keep it on the air.” On Tuesday Netflix tweeted it had extended a licensing agreement that allowed “Parts Unknown” to keep airing in the United States. Some fans have noticed that Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown was scheduled to come off Netflix US on June 16. As of today, we’ve extended our agreement that will keep Parts Unknown on the service for months to come. — Netflix (@netflix) June 12, 2018 “Some fans have noticed that Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown was scheduled to come off Netflix US on June 16,” the tweet said. “As of today, we’ve extended our agreement that will keep Parts Unknown on the service for months to come.” CNN is currently airing the 11th season of “Parts Unknown.” After Bourdain’s death, the network decided to air the previously scheduled new episode, set in Berlin, on Sunday. That episode was followed by an hourlong tribute special. The final two episodes of the season will also air as scheduled, at 9 p.m. ET Sunday and on June 24, according to a CNN spokeswoman. The “Remembering Anthony Bourdain” tribute will air again at 8 p.m. ET Sunday. CNNgo is also airing seasons 1-11. CNN’s Brian Stelter contributed to this report.<doc-sep>LAS VEGAS, NV - NOVEMBER 10: (L-R) TV personality Anthony Bourdain, CNN anchor Don Lemon and chef Marcus Samuelsson attend Fans of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown can breathe a sigh of relief, because the show isn't leaving Netflix anytime soon. The popular CNN travel and food docuseries was scheduled to be removed from the streaming platform on June 16, but after Bourdain's tragic death, fans petitioned Netflix to keep it available for longer. "Some fans have noticed that Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown was scheduled to come off Netflix US on June 16. As of today, we've extended our agreement that will keep Parts Unknown on the service for months to come," Netflix announced on June 12. Bourdain was filming an episode of Parts Unknown in France when he died from suicide. Since his death, everyone from Barack Obama to a slew of celebrities and fellow icons within the food industry have paid tribute to the world-renowned chef and journalist. Now fans can continue to enjoy his wit and love of exploring the unknown without worrying that his award-winning series will disappear. If you or a loved one are in need of any help, the National Suicide Prevention organization has several resources and a 24/7 lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.<doc-sep>In the wake of Anthony Bourdain’s death last week, fans began to petition Netflix to keep his long-running CNN travel show, Parts Unknown, on the air, so-to-speak. The series was originally scheduled to disappear from the streaming service on June 16, but in a tweet yesterday, Netflix announced that the show would remain available indefinitely. It would an understatement to say that Parts Unknown is deserving of this outpouring of support from viewers and fans. Bourdain was one of the very few people on television who managed to celebrate food from diverse cultures without appropriating or exoticizing it. He broke bread with indigenous chefs, drank beers with locals on plastic stools, treated roadside food vendors like Michelin-starred chefs. Bourdain also knew that in order to better understand a foreign culture, he had to stop talking and start listening, to just about everyone. Former militia fighters in Libya, lifelong pitmasters in rural South Carolina, Vietnamese refugees who re-settled in Houston—he got to know them all, by listening and asking questions. It’s a show everyone should watch, not just for the sometimes snarky, charming, compassionate voice Bourdain brings to each episode, but because it reinforces a simple idea: everyone, everywhere is deserving of their humanity. Here, the Food & Wine staff picks our five favorite episodes of the series. Houston Personally, I can’t watch this episode without a shedding a few tears. The episode ruthlessly dismantles your preconceived notions about Texas—that it’s unwelcoming and prejudiced—to reveal a city where immigrants are building vibrant communities. Bourdain takes us inside a Bollywood celebration at a grocery store and a high school populated mostly by recent immigrants from all over the world, whose principal is a refugee from Vietnam, concluding that there is still plenty of room left in America for anyone looking for a new home. Charleston Bourdain pals around with chef Sean Brock in this chilled out episode of Parts Unknown but there are so many joyful snippets here: Eating at Husk with Bill Murray, waxing poetic on Waffle House, and later, fishing barefoot by the river. Detroit Most people might find little to celebrate in Detroit, a city that was hit hard by economic recession before slowly but surely beginning to bounce back. Not so for Bourdain, who hooks up with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff, and tours the ruins with a sense of optimism. He eats roadside barbecue, cooks for local fireman, and decides that there’s hope for Detroit after all. Lyon Bourdain tours this region of France in the very capable hands of chef Daniel Boloud. The highlight comes when Bouloud’s parents cook a family meal—a dish of home cooked bread, cream, and mushrooms cooked directly inside a pumpkin—correcting, and debating, their son, on his cooking techniques. San Sebastian Parts Unknown is sometimes more political than it is food-focused, but in San Sebastian—which is packed with Michelin-star restaurants—Bourdain focuses on the high-quality ingredients, and passion for cooking, that makes life in this city such a pleasure. In San Sebastian, “We solve all our problems by cooking because we have a kind of fanaticism about food,” chef Juan Mari Arzak tells Bourdain. Honorable mention: Vietnam<doc-sep>
Following the tragic death of food-world icon Anthony Bourdain last week, fans of the chef/author launched an online petition to keep the first eight seasons of his CNN show Parts Unknown on Netflix past its expiration date of Saturday, June 16. And, after hearing the cries of thousands of Bourdain fans around the world, Netflix has worked out a deal to keep Parts Unknown in its library for months to come. The entertainment titan announced the news this afternoon: Some fans have noticed that Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown was scheduled to come off Netflix US on June 16. As of today, we’ve extended our agreement that will keep Parts Unknown on the service for months to come. — Netflix US (@netflix) June 12, 2018 This is surely great news for Bourdain fans who want to remember the late, great world traveler by watching some of the best TV episodes of his storied career. What remains to be seen, however, is what will happen to the episodes of Parts Unknown that were filmed but have yet to be released. Last weekend, CNN aired a new Berlin-themed episode with an introduction by Anderson Cooper that addressed Bourdain’s death, but the network has not commented on the fate of the last two episodes of Season 11, focusing on trips to Cajun country and Bhutan. The network also has not announced what will happen with the batch of episodes that Bourdain was filming when he died, which, judging by his Instagram photos, likely cover Africa, Spain, and Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Eater has reached out to CNN and Bourdain’s production company, Zero Point Zero, for more details. Stay tuned for updates as they become available. • Keep Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown” on Netflix [Chang.org] • Food TV and Movies to Watch on Netflix and Amazon Prime This June [E] • Anthony Bourdain Is Dead at 61 [E]