‘It’s not common to have a show that a family can watch together’

An Anne of Green Gables reboot has got Netflix viewers binge-watching

We are now a nation of bingers. Digital platforms have transformed viewing habits and led to a golden age of television, but although programmes like Stranger Things, GLOW and The Crown dominate chat online and around the watercooler, none of them appeared in Netflix’s list of ‘Top 10 most-binged shows’ – the ones we watch for more than two hours at a time – last year. Instead, it’s programmes like American Vandal, 3% and 13 Reasons Why, aimed at a younger demographic, suggesting that Netflix is powered not by their subscribers but by their subscribers’ kids. Fourth in the list of most-popular programmes of 2017 was Anne with an E, a wholesome yet progressive adaptation of LM Montgomery’s century-old Anne of Green Gables books. Sixteen-year-old Irish-born Amybeth McNulty, who luminously plays…

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