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.
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According to Netflix, “the new Little House on the Prairie is part family drama, part epic survival tale, and part origin story of the American West” and “will offer a kaleidoscopic view of the
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 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."
Decades before Yellowstone and its spinoffs gave us a glimpse of American frontier life, Little House on the Prairie was the show to watch on TV.
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.