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Petition to save Anne with an E hits one million signatures, breaks record

SaltWire Network | Posted: July 28, 2020, 11:04 a.m. | Updated: July 28, 2020, 1:05 p.m. | 3 Min Read
A photo from the filming of Season 2 of the TV series Anne with an E, on CBC and Netflix. Netflix announced in November 2019 that the Season 3 of the series would be its last. Fans started a petition to save the show - a petition went viral and now has more than one million signatures. - Photo courtesy of Chris Reardon
A photo from the filming of Season 2 of the TV series Anne with an E, on CBC and Netflix. Netflix announced in November 2019 that the Season 3 of the series would be its last. Fans started a petition to save the show. The petition went viral and now has more than one million signatures. - Photo courtesy of Chris Reardon

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Nine months after the cancellation of the cult favorite show based on Anne of Green Gables, fans still rally to save Anne with an E.

More than one million fans signed a viral Change.org petition calling for Netflix and the CBC to save the show, making it the largest entertainment petition to target Netflix in Change.org history. 

Upon hitting the one-million signature milestone, the hashtag #AnneOneMillion began trending on Twitter — even in countries such as Russia, Peru and Italy - showing its international appeal.

Netflix/CBC announced in November 2019 that Anne with an E, would be cancelled after three seasons. 

Fans were deeply upset, taking to Twitter under the hashtag #SaveAnneWithAnE in the US/Canada and #RenewAnneWithAnE in the UK, both of which were trending in the top 10 at the time.

Fans even created custom art pleading for renewal. That passion continues.

Executive producer Miranda de Pencier addressed the petition late last year — which at the time had amassed about 66,000 signatures — to tell fans that “there is just no way to revive Anne with an E anywhere at this point. It will not happen." Yet fans clearly still hold out hope - especially with this one-million milestone. 

TV shows have been saved by co-ordinated fan campaigns and viral petitions in the past - in one memorable instance, fans petitioned to save The Expanse after it was cancelled by SyFy - and they were heard. It was picked up by Amazon, who cited the online fan response as a major motivating factor for them.

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