Canada’s Neshama develops limited series on life of Anne of Green Gables author

Toronto-based producer Neshama Entertainment is developing a limited drama series about the life of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Canadian author who wrote the classic coming-of-age novel Anne of Green Gables.

The project, titled Lucy Maud, is being written by Susan Coyne (Daisy Jones & The Six, North of North) and stars Megan Follows, who played Anne Shirley in the 1985 Anne of Green Gables miniseries for Canadian pubcaster CBC, and Amybeth McNulty, who starred in CBC and Netflix’s Anne with an E. The latter ran for three seasons from 2017 to 2019.