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Anthony Bourdain creates animated web series

by Katie Hammel (RSS feed) on Oct 31st 2009 at 11:00AM

I'm a huge fan of Anthony Bourdain and I love No Reservations. A show that combines travel to places both exotic and familiar, pure rockstar gluttony and classic Bourdain snark - how could it go wrong? So when I heard that Bourdain was creating an animated web series for the Travel Channel (relax, it will NOT be taking the place of No Reservations) I figured it couldn't be anything less than awesome.

Based on the sneak peak, the show looks like its going to have plenty of Bourdain's signature sense of humor. In the first episode, "Robo Chef," Bourdain laments how much effort it takes to create the perfect celebrity chef - all that work and then they go off and get their own talk show! - so he decides to make one himself. But when he accidentally puts in Rachel Ray's brain instead of Alton Brown's, things go awry.

According to Bourdain himself, future episodes won't be all about his issues with Food Network chefs. They're designed to be alternative versions of No Reservations - "representing things we never could have done on the actual show - or representing the way things should have gone on the show - or animated acknowledgments of what already went terribly wrong on the show."

One of the six webisodes will be posted on the Travel Channel website each month. The first will debut November 2nd.

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