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 of Green Gables: The Continuing Story Montgomery's novels; "Rilla of Ingleside" portrays Anne's sons going off to fight in World War I while Anne and husband Gilbert witness the War from the home-front of Prince Edward Island. (Rilla, the youngest daughter, raises someone else's little boy for a few years; he is referred to by the family as "Rilla's war-baby" and he was presumably the inspiration for Dominic in "Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story".) While "The Continuing Story" was set in New York, England, France and Germany, it filmed almost entirely in studio or on locations in Montreal and Southern Ontario, including Toronto. In