The 1800s will be getting the 2020s treatment. Little House on the Prairie, the NBC show based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's memoir of the same name, will be remade for Netflix.
Like Laura Ingalls putting Nellie Oleson in her place for the umpteenth time, Melissa Gilbert has addressed Megyn Kelly’s concern about Netflix’s recently announced Little House on the Prairie series being,
Netflix has ordered a Little House on the Prairie series, 40-plus years after a long-running adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved books aired its last episode on NBC. The new version comes from showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine ( The Boys, The Vampire Diaries ).
Netflix announced Wednesday it’s planning a reboot of “Little House on the Prairie,” the popular TV show based on Wilder’s books that ran from 1974 to 1983 starring Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert.
Over the years fans have labelled it ‘timeless’, ‘inspiring’ and even ‘one of the greatest TV shows in history’. It’s now been announced the show will be coming back, with Netflix offering a ‘fresh take on the iconic story’. The reboot will be led by Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Boys, The Vampire Diaries) as showrunner and executive producer.
Jan. 30 (UPI) -- A remake of the classic family drama Little House on the Prairie is in the works at Netflix. No casting has been announced yet. Rebecca Sonnenshine -- whose credits include The Boys and Vampire Diaries -- will serve as showrunner.
The fresh adaptation of the hopeful family drama will return to the American frontier and follow the adventures and adversities of the Ingalls on their family farm.
Get ready to head back to the world of "Little House on the Prairie" with a new adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved book series.
The long-gestating project from CBS Studios and Anonymous Content was first announced in 2020. According to Deadline, the Netflix series will follow the Ingalls family — Charles, his wife Caroline, and their children Laura and Mary — as well as characters from the Osage tribe the Ingalls family encounters in Kansas.
More than 40 years since the original series concluded after nine seasons in 1983, Netflix has greenlit a reboot of the 19th century period western series, Little House on the Prairie. According to the streaming platform, the new show will be "part hopeful, family drama, part epic survival tale and part origin story of the American West."