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Netflix has announced a partnership with Canada’s CBC on an eight-episode series adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s timeless novel, Anne of Green Gables. Titled Anne, the one-hour series is written by Emmy Award winner Moira Walley-Beckett and produced by Northwood Entertainment.
According to a press release, the iconic 1890s story centers around a young orphaned girl, who after bouncing from home to home, finds herself living amongst an elderly spinster and her aging brother. 13-year-old Anne Shirley’s exuberant aura proceeds to transform the family and the small town they live in. Walley-Beckett and Miranda de Pencier developed and will executive produce the series, which will debut in 2017 with a two-hour premiere episode directed by Niki Caro.
In other news…
According to a press release, Netflix has set the cast for Nick Stoller’s upcoming 8-episode comedy series, Friends from College, which will star Keegan-Michael Key. The new show, which centers around a group of Harvard graduates and friends now in their 40s, will also feature Cobie Smulders, Fred Savage, Nat Faxon, Annie Parisse, and Jae Suh Park.
Baseball’s go-to streaming platform BAMTech, which Disney recently invested $1 billion in, has acquired an unspecified stake in college sports streaming company, Silver Chalice Ventures. The new deal enables BAMTech to distribute the ACC Digital Network and Campus Insiders, as well as over 3,000 live college events. [Bloomberg]
In an effort to provide those not yet subscribed to Prime Video with samples of the platform’s original content, Amazon has uploaded select episodes to YouTube for public access. The first episodes of ten original shows including The Man in the High Castle and Transparent, are now available for free streaming. [The Motley Fool]
Netflix has uploaded the official trailer to its forthcoming Sundance-acquired documentary, Audrie & Daisy. Centering around the sexual assault of two teenage girls, the new feature brings to light the injustice done to American teenagers in the age of social media:
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