After call from fans, Netflix will continue streaming Anthony Bourdain’s show for ‘months to come’
"Parts Unknown" was originally scheduled to leave the streaming service on Saturday.
In the wake of Anthony Bourdain’s death last week at the age of 61, some fans — including a Vermont native named Tanner Palin — noticed that Bourdain’s CNN show, “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown,” was scheduled to be removed from Netflix’s streaming library on June 16.
Palin started a Change.org petition six days ago, according to the website, asking Netflix to maintain the show’s availability. The petition has since garnered more than 7,000 signatures.
“Netflix, this show isn’t just entertaining. It is heartwarming, it is honest and it benefits human kind,” the petition reads. “Please keep it on the air.”
On Tuesday, Netflix announced that it will keep “Parts Unknown” available “for months to come.”
“Some fans have noticed that Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown was scheduled to come off Netflix US on June 16,” the company tweeted. “As of today, we’ve extended our agreement that will keep Parts Unknown on the service for months to come.”
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
Palin posted an update to the petition on Thursday.
“Thanks again to all of you who signed this petition,” Palin wrote. “And a big thank you to Netflix; a fantastic service that clearly cares about their customers and the human spirit.”
In a 2014 episode of “Parts Unknown” set in Massachusetts, Bourdain spoke at length about how he got his start in the restaurant world in Provincetown in 1972, when he worked as a dishwasher at the now-closed Flagship restaurant.
“It was here, all the way out at the tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown, Massachusetts, where the pilgrims first landed,” Bourdain said. “And it was where I first landed. 1972, washed in a town with a headful of orange sunshine and a few friends. Provincetown, a wonderland of tolerance, longtime tradition of accepting artists, writers, the badly behaved, the gay, the different. It was paradise.”
