The chattiest, most precocious redhead on TV is sticking around for a while. Netflix and CBC have renewed “Anne with an E” for a ten-episode second season, Deadline confirms. Season 1 of coming-of-age story included seven eps. Series creator Moira Walley-Beckett (“Breaking Bad”) will return as showrunner.
Based on L.M. Montgomery’s classic series of novels, “Anne with an E” centers on Anne Shirley (Amybeth McNulty, “Morgan”), a loquacious, dramatic, and imaginative orphan who is mistakenly sent to live with a middle-aged sister (Geraldine James, “Sherlock Holmes” franchise) and brother (R.H. Thomson, “Chloe”). The siblings wanted a boy to help them work on the farm. While Anne is not at all who they were expecting, the pair eventually come to accept and embrace her.
Scheduled to shoot this fall, Season 2 “will add new characters and storylines, and continue to explore themes of identity, prejudice, feminism, bullying, gender parity, and empowerment through the lens of its 14-year-old protagonist,” Deadline writes.
Three-time Emmy winner Walley-Beckett penned every episode of Season 1, and five of seven eps were directed by women, including Niki Caro (“The Zookeeper’s Wife”) and Patricia Rozema (“Into the Forest”).
