Anthony Bourdain - Second Chance

Anthony Bourdain Re-visited

“   After the show's first three episodes aired on Fox, the show was put on hiatus due to Fox's coverage of the Major League Baseball playoffs. In November 2005, Fox announced the show would not air during sweeps The show returned on December 5, 2005, with its fourth episode, though only received 3.38 million viewers. Four days later, Fox announced that they canceled the series. Currently all 13 episodes are available via Hulu and a complete series DVD collection has been released. and that only 13 episodes would be produced as it was only averaging 4 million viewers. [Kitchen Confidential (TV series)] ”

After yesterday's mini-rant about Anthony Bourdain's Liberal bent, a number of comments instructed me that the man may have changed.  In the process of looking stuff up, I discovered that his book Kitchen Confidential had been made into a television series. I haven't watched yet, but I will. Including this --  if I can find it. “   In July 2006, Bourdain was in Beirut filming an episode of No Reservations when the Israel-Lebanon conflict broke out. Bourdain and his crew were evacuated with other American citizens on the morning of July 20 by the United States Marines.[11] Because of the unexpected conflict only a few hours of footage were available from the first restaurant on their agenda. Bourdain's producers compiled the Beirut footage into a No Reservations episode which aired on August 21, 2006. Uncharacteristically, the episode included footage of both Bourdain and his production staff, and included not only their initial attempts to film the episode, but also their firsthand encounters with Hezbollah supporters [Wikipedia] ”