But this new version will have to work as hard as the fictional Miss Shirley herself to win over a generation raised on the warm and cozy version. The always-popular ginger is the subject of several new film, stage, and TV adaptations, including a gritty reimagining by Breaking Bad alum Moira Walley-Beckett that was first broadcast by the CBC and will air on Netflix starting this Friday. We are now in the midst of another Anne boom. Montgomery novels, and inspiring a generation of women to emulate the brainy, ambitious, hot-tempered, and kind-hearted Anne. (on PBS and, later, the Disney Channel), the four-hour event and its 1987 sequel, Anne of Avonlea, became instant classics-winning Emmy and Peabody Awards, reinvigorating interest in the L.M.

At the time, the CBC production was the most popular TV program to ever air in Canada. In fact, Anne has inspired a number of films, TV shows, and stage productions.īut outside of Japan, one adaptation in particular-the 1985 Canadian Anne of Green Gables mini-series, starring Megan Follows and directed by Kevin Sullivan-struck a nerve. Anne is big in Japan thanks, in some part, to a 1979 anime version of Anne of Green Gables. Anne has kept the tourism industry in her home of Prince Edward Island booming, particularly among Japanese fans.

The character was so immediately popular that Montgomery penned seven sequels to Anne of Green Gables over three decades. Small, smart, redheaded, scrappy, and imaginative, Anne Shirley has been winning hearts and minds ever since Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery introduced her to the world in 1908.

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