Eva Longoria is taking her food obsession to France. In the latest installment of her Searching for... franchise on, the actor and producer leads an eight-episode trip through Paris, Bordeaux, Brittany and beyond in Eva Longoria: Searching for France.
The new season premieres April 12 at 9 p.m. ET and airs two episodes a week through May 3. Longoria said the show follows her love of French culture, which began when she was married to Tony Parker from 2007 to 2011. “I was married to a Frenchman, so I really fell in love with France through his eyes because he’s such a countryman. I mean, he’s such a patriot,” she said.
Longoria said their time together pulled her all over the country, from Paris in the summers to Leon, Faucon and Limoges, with stops wherever Parker had to play basketball. That experience, she said, left her with “definitely a romantic connection with this beautiful country.”
In the series, Longoria digs into the history behind some of France’s best-known dishes while tasting them along the way: fresh oysters in Paris, bouillabaisse in Provence, frog legs mousseline in Alsace, braised boeuf bourguignon in Burgundy, buttery blue lobster in Brittany and Bordelaise sauce in Bordeaux. “I am such a foodie, and I love to travel, and I love history,” she said. “And then, of course, I have such strong ties and a connection to France, and I speak French fluently, so they allowed me to do France as well. The gold standard of gastronomy is really French cuisine. And so I think all of my three passions combined into one — and I get paid for it — was probably a no-brainer.”
The series comes after previous Searching for... installments that took viewers through Spain and Mexico, extending a format Longoria has made her own over 18 seasons of work for the network. It also leans into a relationship with France that has run through much of her public life: she has been an ambassador for L’Oréal for more than 20 years and has attended the Cannes Film Festival for just as long. Since her divorce from Parker, she married José Bastón in 2016, and they welcomed a son, Santiago Enrique, in 2018. For Longoria, the pitch is straightforward: France gives her food, history and personal memory in one place, and this time the audience gets the full tour.