‘Little House on the Prairie’ Reboot Coming to Netflix
Half-pint has a new home. A reboot of the classic series Little House on the Prairie is coming to Netflix, the streamer announced on Wednesday.
The ‘Little House on the Prairie’ reboot will be ‘part family drama, part survival tale’
“Little House on the Prairie, a reimagining of the Laura Ingalls Wilder book series, is coming to Netflix!” the company said in a Jan. 29 message posted to X. “Part family drama, part survival tale, and part origin story, the series will offer a kaleidoscopic view of the struggles and triumphs of those who shaped the American West.”
Rebecca Sonnenshine will serve as showrunner and executive producer. She’s a long-time fan of Wilder’s novels, the first of which was published in 1932.
“I fell deeply in love with these books when I was 5 years old,” Sonnenshine told Netflix’s Tudum. “They inspired me to become a writer and a filmmaker, and I am honored and thrilled to be adapting these stories for a new audience.”
Trip Friendly, whose father Ed Friendly produced the Little House series on NBC, will also serve as an executive producer through Friendly Family Productions.
“It has been a long-held dream of mine to carry on my father’s legacy and adapt Wilder’s classic American stories for a 21st-century audience in a way that brings together fans of both the books and the original television series,” Friendly said.
‘Little House on the Prairie’ was one of the most streamed shows of 2024
Netflix’s Little House reboot announcement comes as streaming data reveals that the original show, which aired from 1974 to 1983, continues to delight audiences.
In 2024, viewers streamed 13.25 billion minutes of the heartwarming Melissa Gilbert series on Peacock, according to Nielsen. The show performed particularly well among adults between the ages of 35 and 64. It also over-indexed among Black viewers, who accounted for 17% of the total viewership. For comparison, the top streaming original, Netflix’s Bridgerton, had 21.42 billion viewing minutes last year. Little House on the Prairie reruns also air on Hallmark Family and Great American Family.
In March 2024, Little House on the Prairie cast members, including Gilbert and Alison Arngrim, came together for a reunion. Gilbert spoke about how the show continues to resonate decades after it went off the air.
“The show evokes so much emotion in people and made everybody feel,” she said, according to Deadline. “So when they see us, they have the feels, and then the leftover feels from 50 years ago. Now they’re feeling it again through children and grandchildren. There’s this continuity and sense of family.”
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