During the broadcast of the first episode of Anne with an “E” last Sunday evening on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, several commercials announced what had to be a bold move for the broadcaster: while the CBC announced plans to air the first episode of another new show, Canada: The Story of Us, the following week (March 26), Anne would return on Sunday, April 2, with a rebroadcast of the first two-hour episode (“Your Will Shall Decide Your Destiny”) immediately preceding the initial broadcast of the second episode (“I Am No Bird, and No Net Ensnares Me”). This in spite of the fact that the first episode can now be watched on the CBC website (at least within Canada) and can be downloaded for free on iTunes.
Just yesterday morning, I came across the following tweet from the show’s official Twitter account:
Why wait two weeks? CANADA LOVES ANNE so much, we're bringing an all-new episode THIS Sunday 8/8:30NT! pic.twitter.com/66X67DVLVi
— Anne with an E (@AnneTheSeries) March 21, 2017
Now, according to my PVR machine this morning, here is what’s scheduled to happen next: this Sunday, March 26, CBC will air episode two, “I Am No Bird, and No Net Ensnares Me,” in the series regular time slot of 8:00 p.m. (8:30 in Newfoundland). And then on Sunday, April 2, CBC will rebroadcast, in a four-hour block, the two-hour-long episode one and episode two, followed by the initial broadcast of episode three, “But What Is So Headstrong as Youth?”
Check your local listings for updates: who knows how this schedule might change again!
Will this new Anne series be available on DVD? Down here in Australia we are waiting desperately to hear!
I’m sure it will be eventually! But the show will available worldwide through Netflix as of May 12, so you won’t need to wait that long!
Thanks, Benjamin. Don’t really know how to use Netflix – bit high tech for me. We’ll have to see what we can do. Appreciate the heads up!
To be honest, I don’t have a Netflix subscription either—so I feel for you! As soon as they do announce plans to release the series on DVD, I will definitely post it on this blog.