Sullivan Entertainment has revealed its new Anne Shirley and firmed up its plans to make Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning for CTV. The network has picked up the three-hour MOW for 2008, scheduled to wrap shooting in Toronto Nov. 12.

The prodco found its Anne through a recent casting call on YouTube and a cross-Canada audition tour. Toronto’s Hannah Endicott-Douglas (The Good Witch, Samantha: An American Girl Holiday) was chosen to star alongside Rachel Blanchard (7th Heaven) and Barbara Hershey (Hannah and Her Sisters), who plays Anne as a woman in her fifties reflecting on her past.

‘To say that we are ‘excited’ about bringing the Anne of Green Gables franchise to CTV would be an understatement,’ said Kevin Sullivan, president of the Toronto company, in a statement, noting that he and CTVglobemedia boss Ivan Fecan worked together at CBC in the early 1990s.