Miss Shirley and PBS

November 30, 2017

By Josh Albarran

L.M. Montgomery's Anne of The Green Gables The Good Stars.
(PBS)

If you had watched the latest instrument in the Anne of Green Gables series L.M. Montgomery's Anne of The Green Gables The Good Stars last Thanksgiving weekend on PBS, well this is an must-seen holiday tradition between these two storytellers.

Anne of Green Gables started an children's book from Canadian Lucy Maud (L.M.) Montgomery published in 1908 about an orphan girl named Anne Shirley. Living with their siblings at the Green Gables in Avonlea, goes to school with her best friend Diana Barry and haves an love relationship with Gilbert Blythe. The Anne of Green Gables book series was sold more than 50 million copies to kids and all-ages worldwide.

PBS is an non-profit broadcasting organization first went on the air back in 1970 with more than 350 member stations across the United States offering educational primetime and children's programming to viewers, well known for presenting the Anne of Green Gables series. PBS aired all four Anne films from Kevin Sullivan between 1986 and 2010 as well the animated series for PBS Kids in the early 2000s and recently the L.M. Montgomery's Anne of The Green Gables series last year.

In L.M. Montgomery's Anne of The Green Gables The Good Stars, Anne Shirley is turing thirteen years old and is facing her friends, adults and Gilbert. According to the PBS website, "Her free-spirited nature is challenged by her perceived need to be sensible, a journey fraught with confusion and some unfortunate, albeit amusing, mishaps."

Ella Ballentine is played once again as Miss Shirley alongside the returning cast from the 2016 telefilm including Martin Sheen as Matthew Cuthbert, Sara Botsford as Marilla Cuthbert, Juila Lalonde as Diana Barry and Drew Haytaoglu as Gilbert Blyhte. They all expected to return in 2018 on PBS with their third telefilm Fire and Dew.

In case you missed L.M. Montgomery's Anne of The Green Gables The Good Stars, it may reair throughout this holiday season on your PBS stations or stream the full movie at PBS.org (and on the PBS app) and make sure to order the DVD of L.M. Montgomery's Anne of The Green Gables The Good Stars available now from PBS Distribution.
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