Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story the course of developing original characters and stories for seven seasons of "Road to Avonlea", the time frame of Sullivan's fictional world evolved into a 20-year difference from the Montgomery novels. As a result, Sullivan decided to make "Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story" a completely original work that took Anne and Gilbert to the battlefields of World War I instead of their children as in Montgomery's novels. The film was also criticised for introducing a continuity problem. Following Colleen Dewhurst's death in 1991, Marilla Cuthbert's death was written into the series "Road to Avonlea". At Marilla's funeral, Hetty
L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables broadcasting it on November 24, 2016 (Thanksgiving Day). The network claims the television run was seen by more than 3.2 million viewers, with an additional 230,000 watching online. The movie has also seen a release in Germany, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. In Japan, it was released theatrically on May 6, 2017 and later home video, by Happinet Corporation and Synergy Entertainment. On September 19, 2016, YTV's parent company, Corus Entertainment announced that they had given the greenlight to two sequels; "Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars" for broadcast in 2017, and "Anne of Green Gables: Fire &