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Having that voice from my childhood was profound and personal.Ĭho: You’ve now directed eight episodes of Parts Unknown. It was always in the back of my mind that it would be a fascinating show, but I think as the show evolved on CNN, I wondered, “Could you actually do a show there?” When Parts Unknown was more food focused, I thought it was going to be a little tough, but as the scope of the show broadened, shooting here became a no-brainer.Ĭho: Did you get to connect with anyone from your childhood?įallon: We had a family friend at the table with Tony at one of the diners in Lost Creek. I went down there and drove around for, like, three weeks.

I hadn’t gone there for years, when in 2003 a friend and I were scouting for documentary ideas. We lived in an old farmhouse with no electricity. I had lived in central West Virginia when I was a kid, and it was a very formative experience.

Morgan Fallon: Tony and I were shooting an episode for season 9 in Antarctica, and we had been talking about southern West Virginia and how I didn’t think many people knew about it. Helen Cho: How did the idea for the West Virginia episode come about?

Morgan Fallon, who directed the West Virginia episode, sits down with producer Helen Cho to talk about reconnecting with his West Virginia roots, shooting Parts Unknown’s first extended episode, and the pressure to “get it right.”