Yahoo Lifestyle Long-awaited “Little House on the Prairie” reboot coming to Netflix
Walnut grove, here we come (again)!
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Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Sue Anderson, Melissa Gilbert, Lindsay/Sidney Greenbush in 'Little House on the Prairie'Grab your bonnet and lunch pail, Little House on the Prairie fans, because it's time to go back to Walnut Grove.
Netflix revealed Wednesday that it has ordered a LHOP reboot, which will be based on the third book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's series of autobiographical novels. Deadline first reported the news.
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.
The original Little House on the Prairie series — which ran from 1974 to 1983 on NBC — starred Michael Landon as patriarch Pa Ingalls, Karen Grassle as Caroline, Melissa Gilbert as Laura "Half-Pint" Ingalls, and Melissa Sue Anderson as Mary. The news of Netflix's reboot comes on the heels of a Nielsen study that crowned LHOP as the top "legacy" series on streaming in 2024, with 13.3 billion (!) minutes viewed.
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(Clockwise from left): Michael Landon, Lindsay/Sydney Greenbush, Karen Grassle, Melissa Sue Anderson, and Melissa Gilbert in 'Little House on the Prairie'Related: The untold story of 'Sylvia,' the most WTF episode of Little House on the Prairie ever
Trip Friendly, son of original LHOP producer Ed Friendly, has been working for years to get this reboot off the ground.
"It was something that I talked with my father about before he passed in 2007. I really felt it would be exciting to reboot the material," he told Entertainment Weekly in 2020. "Fans are eager to see Little House on the Prairie come back to the screen, and we agree the time is right. We feel optimistic that this will happen." Friendly is an executive producer on the Netflix reboot, while Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Boys, The Vampire Diaries) will serve as executive producer and showrunner.
No casting has been announced, but Alison Arngrim — who starred as the deliciously nasty Nellie Oleson in the original NBC series — told EW in 2020 that she's game to return, albeit in a new role. "I'm just the right age to play Mrs. Oleson," she said. "I'm totally there. I have no shame."
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