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The season of “Parts Unknown” that Anthony Bourdain was filming when he died in June is coming, and it’s sure to be an emotional rollercoaster.
A mere six episodes, Season 12 of the CNN series will show what Bourdain was up to in the months before he died by suicide. A snippet circulating online over the weekend shows an episode set in Kenya alongside comedian and fellow CNN personality W. Kamau Bell.
“I really felt like a passenger just wanting to be present for it,” says Bell in the clip. “And I didn’t want to suck—that was my overwhelming feeling, like, ‘Don’t screw up his show.’ Everybody who had dreams of traveling with Tony, it’s exactly as cool as you think it is.”
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The show’s final journeys into parts unknown will include Kenya, Spain, Indonesia, West Texas, and Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
As Bell says in a clip filmed after Bourdain’s death about his time in Kenya: “The greater context of the show and the reality and the fact that Tony’s gone makes that like a — it’s like a punch in the gut.”
The new season premieres on Sept. 23 on CNN.