<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Website </Td> </Tr> <P> Anne (titled Anne with an E for international distribution on Netflix) is a Canadian drama television series based on the 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, and adapted by Emmy Award - winning writer and producer Moira Walley - Beckett . It airs on CBC in Canada, and elsewhere in the world it is available for streaming on Netflix . The first season consists of seven episodes, with Niki Caro directing the 90 - minute season premiere . The series premiered on March 19, 2017, on CBC, the season finale airing on April 30, 2017 . </P> <P> On August 3, 2017, both CBC and Netflix renewed the series for a 10 - episode second season to premiere in 2018 . Season 2 began production in November 2017 . </P> <P> In the late 19th century, brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, both in their old age by that historical period's standards (Matthew is 60), decide to take on an orphan boy to help out around their ancestral farm of Green Gables, on the outskirts of the town of Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island . When Matthew goes to pick the child up at the railway station, he finds not a boy, but a high - spirited and talkative girl, Anne Shirley . At first, the Cuthberts are inclined to send her back, particularly after Marilla's brooch goes missing, and Anne, in despair, runs away . Reconciled and settled in her new home and school, Anne once again displays boundless enthusiasm which is nevertheless easily turned into despair when things go wrong, which they often do . Slowly, her ebullient nature wins over those around her . </P>

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