User blog comment:Eikakou/Anne (2017) episode 1 - Your Will Shall Decide Your Destiny review/@comment-4934571-20170321105920

Thank you for your review! :) I know you are from Canada and I wondered if you managed to watch the first episode on Sunday. I'm planning to watch it in CBC's web archive today after I come home from school (I didn't have time yesterday, I went to the cinema to see Beauty and the Beast and afterwards I was emotionally broken). I am not your fellow Canadian and I know that the archive is available only for Canadians. But... it is not any obstacle for me and I have my ways how to make the website think that I am indeed from Canada (which I am not, obviously). :D (I can tell you from my personal experience that when you dig on the internet for every Anne-related info or image, you sort of become an excellent stalker and amateur hacker.)

I've already seen the last minute from it because I needed to write down the cast info and upload it here on Wiki and on IMDb as well. I will definitely write my review here in the comments today or tomorrow, depending on the amount of my free time.

As for the next episode... yes, it will be released on April 2. I don't think they stated why, but the first episode is twice as long as the others. And I think that there will be only 7 episodes in the first season. The info is chaotic because at first they said there would be 8 episodes and Niki Caro would direct the 2-hours-long pilot. The cast and crew stated similar things on social media (8 episodes = 9 hours). But then someone mentioned that there would be 8 hours of the show, not 8 episodes. And considering the pilot is 2 hours long, we are left with only 6 more episodes. Also, Amanda Tapping was said to direct the last episode. According to the pictures from the set, she directed the episode with production code 107.