Details about Anthony Bourdain's secretive Detroit project are coming to light.

CNN today announced that the noted chef and television star will be producing a four-part historical documentary series for the cable channel about Detroit.

"Detroit 1963: Once in a Great City," (working title) will focus on the Motor City at its "high point when their auto industry was the envy of the world and Motown ruled the airwaves," according to the synopsis.

Bourdain will act as executive producer on the project along with Lydia Tenaglia, co-founder of Zero Point Zero productions, which produces Bourdain's "Parts Unknown" for CNN.

Set to make its debut in 2018, the docuseries "will take viewers back to a time in America when people believed in the power and goodness of big corporations, had high hopes for racial parity, and looked to institutions like unions and the government to solve their problems."

The working title takes its name from the 2015 David Maraniss book "Once in a Great City," upon which the series is based.

Bourdain hinted at the project in an interview with the Free Press last September, saying then that he was working on "a fairly sizable project that would encompass more than an hour of television."

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