CBC’s new ‘Anne of Green Gables’ series picked up by Netflix

TORONTO and LOS ANGELES – Netflix has signed on as the global partner of CBC’s new dramatic television series Anne, based on Lucy Maud Montgomery's timeless classic novel Anne of Green Gables.CBC greenlit the eight-episode, one-hour series earlier this year, and production is scheduled to begin next month in Ontario. The show will air in Canada on CBC in 2017 and stream globally on Netflix.Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad, Flesh & Bone) is writing the entire first season of the series which will be produced by Miranda de Pencier (Beginners, Thanks For Sharing) under her...