Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel Green Gables " when it premiered on The Disney Channel. Megan Follows was nominated for an ACE Award in 1988 by the National Academy of Cable Programing in the Ninth Annual System Awards for Cable Excellence for Disney's "Anne of Avonlea". Home Box Office led with 112 nominations for the ACE Award, or Award for Cable Excellence. Showtime got 48, Arts & Entertainment 33, and the Disney Channel and Cable News Network 10 each. 30 categories of the 174 ACE Awards were presented on a live broadcast on HBO on January 24, 1988. The other categories were presented at a
Anne Shirley 1919 nor 1934 versions of "Anne of Green Gables" quite got her book right. Writing about the 1934 version of "Anne of Green Gables", Montgomery wrote in her diary that it was a "thousand times" better than the 1919 version, but still it: "was so entirely different from "my" vision of the scenes and the people that it did not seem like "my" book at all". The British scholar Faye Hammill wrote that 1934 film version stripped Anne of the "Canadian and feminist" aspects that the Anne of the books possessed, stating that there was something about Anne that Hollywood