CNN blocks Bourdain TT special

Bourdain, a chef, author and television personality, visited the country in January to film an episode for his Emmy award-winning food and travel show which has been on the air since April 2013.

A trailer of the episode was released on social media showing Bourdain holding a Carib beer, eating doubles, saying he “loves the food”, watching a steelband perform and a jab jab costume display, and chatting with locals.

He was also shown chatting with local singer Kees Dieffenthaller.

The episode is scheduled to air tonight at 9 pm but Flow in a release yesterday advised customers that CNN will black out the episode due to the lack of distribution rights outside of the United States and Canada.

Flow reported that while the show will be listed on the TV guide CNN will air substitute programming instead of the show.

“We do apologize to our customers, however, this is outside of our control,” Flow added.

In an article on travelandleisure.

com Bourdain reported speaking to locals about some of the problems the island faces including gang violence, drug trafficking and ISIS recruitment.

There was some backlash on social media by locals who disagreed with Bourdain’s inclusion of this country’s crime issues in his