If you're an Anne of Green Gables fan have you heard about the new series?

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Written by the creators of Breaking Bad (!) so bound to be on the dark and gritty side. Coming to Netflix in May.

I think Megan Follows will always be 'my' Anne but I'll certainly give this a watch. There was a recent film version of AoGG on TV and it was really terrible, a stage school Anne-brat with false freckles. I wanted to slap her

Sorry, I LOVE Murdoch Mysteries....it fits right in with the period romantic mysteries that I love to read.
But I loved Murder She Wrote and Castle and all sorts of predictable 1 hour dramas with NO suspense.

Knowledge Network in BC occasionally does some good documentaries. And of course the NFB does great work (but that's not tv). But overall it's embarrassingly bad.

Schitz Creek is growing on me but that's only because the son (whathisname, Dan Levy) is very funny w great timing.

1. the name Anne asks Matilda to call her

2. Morgan's daughter

Coming for you Sofia! ;) I find Murdoch unbearably stilted and cheesy (ditto Murder She Wrote and Father Brown, though Father Brown at least has a lovely village and stonkingly good art direction & costumes). I like murder mysteries very much, just not those ones.

Straw, what lovely names. Tbh, I don't think you can really go wrong with AoGG names though .

To PP, isn't Orphan Black a Canadian show or did I imagine that? Because it is brilliant.

Does anyone know if they made a film or a series of the Emily books? God I love those.

Yes, I think they did in either the late 90s or early 00s. The Emily books were much darker, and Dean was downright creepy.

I'm a huge fan of the Megan Followes AOGG, although perhaps she was a bit too pretty for Anne. This Anne looks younger and gawkier and perhaps closer to Montgomery's description of her. Coleen Dewhurst was just perfect as Marilla, although Geraldine James is interesting casting too.

Orphan Black isn't really set in Canada though. We make loads of stuff that's either set elsewhere (dating myself by saying X Files) or, like Orphan Black, is ambiguous. When I say Canadian tv is bad I mean dramas or comedies about us, for us (that hopefully others can appreciate too). While we're ahead of the game w novels and musicians, we're too often in the first job "good effort" stage w tv.

Ah, misunderstood what you meant, sorry.

Oh, that's okay, I wasn't very clear. And I don't know that other countries skulk around pretending to be America or wherever instead of thinking their stories are good enough to be set somewhere other than California, NYC or London. Britain sets wherever in the U.K., Scandinoir plops down in Denmark, Sweden etc. It's only us that puts out an American postbox and pretends to be somewhere and something we're not.

Yes, i was wondering, in the way that we have all discovered Scandinavian drama, whether there was undisvovered Canadian TV. Interesting to read the comments.

Orphan Black looks really good, haven't watched it.

I wasn't a fan of the recent film, despite adoring Sheen in everything else ever.

I love Martin Sheen, but he was not right as Matthew. Everything was wrong about that film tbh.

I like Geraldine James so think she may make a good Marilla.

I'm old enough to remember the BBC series with Kim Braden as Anne in the 1970s. But I saw the Megan Follows version as an adult and loved it. Wonderful books - I should go back and read them.

I adore the Megan Follows series and have it on DVD. Don't think anything will be as good as that one but will watch this one.

Did anyone ever watch Anne - The Continuing Story where she hares across Europe dressed as a singing nun (!) in order to break Gilbert out of a POW camp.

A little smoke still comes from my ears if I think about it too much.

squoosh . I have seen the third instalment but try to pretend it doesn't exist.

Squish - that's what's putting me off watching this new version - I'm scared it might end up like that.

Just watch the trailer it does look quite gritty but I am definitely going to give it a go.

I'm with Labtest7. The third instalment did not happen, Anne and Gilbert's story ends on the bridge with "I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you".

Megan and Jonathan (and indeed Colleen Dewhurst) were such perfect casting. From the trailer this version seems to be going a bit grittier (no-one ever shuns Anne for being an orphan? Josie Pye might have a few tart remarks) but it could never be the same as that version so it's right that it finds its own voice.

I may say as well Megan Follows is the only redeeming thing about Reign. She is brilliant (and very un-Anne-ish) as Catherine de' Medici.

I love Martin Sheen but Matthew he is not. Would expect him to pull his jacket on over his head, draft everyone in the village to plough his fields for him and then say "what's next?".

In Canada and watching. It's very different to previous versions and not all that true to the plotlines in the books. I think it's excellent, and DD2 and my DMum are loving it so it appeals to all ages. The production values are amazing.

And it has a Tragically Hip song as the theme tune when the opening credits are rolling. That right there just makes it the coolest thing.

Canadian TV is not as good as British TV and I find I either love or hate Canadian shows, they are like marmite!

Love
Anne
Schitts Creek
Letterkenny

Hate
Corner Gas
The Beachcombers
Murdoch Mysteries

You can't mention Canadian TV without mentioning the wonder that was Degrassi Junior High!

Hellz yeah!

'Wake up in the morning feeling shy and lonely, gee I gotta go to school'

I'm glad everyone else hated the third Anne instalment too. I do try to pretend it doesn't exist but sometimes I can't help but remember her dressed as a singing nun and almost falling for the questionable charms of some random mystery writer 😅

But at least I learned my lesson though, and refused point blank to watch the Anne prequel that came out a couple of years ago where from what I could gather she discovered that she wasn't even an orphan. Or something equally as sacreligious.

Queen how could I forget Degrassi!

The real Degrassi Street is not all that far from us. It's an unremarkable street in a fairly nice neighbourhood of central Toronto. Degrassi Junior High doesn't really exist though. Sadly!

I will be very interested to hear what you all think of the new Anne.

It is being marketed differently in the USA (and maybe the UK). It's ridiculous. They have completely de-Anned her. And they are touting it as a "Netflix Original Series" when it is nothing of the sort - it is produced by the CBC and Northwood, a Canadian production company. Netflix is just distributing it.

Buzzfeed article here

This is such exciting news!