Extremely Important Anne of Green Gables News

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Oh my Gilbert Blythe, they're making a new Anne of Green Gables!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, Sparklers, in an announcement that we can only assume was timed to coincide with Books Week, the CBC has said that they're working on a brand-new adaptation of the classic series about a feisty bookworm who's basically the OG Sparkler.

We're thrilled, of course, but we're also a little scared. As the gals at Jezebel point out, the new series will be set "in a more modern era," and that's worrisome. What if the CBC gets too modern? If they make any of the following changes, we're staging Occupy Avonlea.

• one-room schoolhouse --> tony Upper East Side private school
• broken slate --> cracked iPhone screen
• puffed sleeves --> jorts
• unhealthy obsession with the Lady of Shalott --> unhealthy obsession with paranormal teen fiction
• gentle farmer uncles --> drunken blogging aunts
• bridge makeouts --> sexting
• drinking current wine with Diana --> drinking Purell
• typhoid --> HPV
• the white way of delight --> Facebook

Do you love Anne of Green Gables? Will you watch the new series?

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