Bad idea! At least keep the language clean, I could just see them inserting profanity. :rolleyes:

https://tvline.com/news/little-house-on-the-prairie-reboot-tv-show-netflix-1235403584/

I don't know whether to be excited or worried.

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/little-house-on-the-prairie-remake-netflix

It will be interesting to see what they do with it. I loved the books when I read them as a kid, but the show always bugged me. It wasn't awful, but Michael Landon had some strange ideas for the show. I just hope they don't wokeify it

Melissa Gilbert Reacts to Megyn Kelly’s Threat Against "Little House on the Prairie" Reboot
by Matt Webb Mitovich
January 30, 2025


Melissa Gilbert has addressed Megyn Kelly‘s concern about Netflix’s recently announced "Little House on the Prairie" series being, as they say, “woke.”

Shortly after the reboot was announced on Wednesday, Kelly, a former Fox News vet, called out Netflix on X, saying, “If you wokeify [sic] Little House on the Prairie I will make it my singular mission to absolutely ruin your project.”



After getting wind of Kelly’s threatened “mission,” Gilbert — who of course played Laura on the series — posted to Instagram, inviting Kelly to “watch the original again.”

She noted: “TV doesn’t get too much more ‘woke’ than we did. We tackled: racism, addiction, nativism, antisemitism, misogyny, rape, spousal abuse and every other ‘woke’ topic you can think of. Thank you very much.”

https://tvline.com/news/melissa-gilbert-megyn-kelly-woke-little-house-on-the-prairie-reboot-threat-1235404256/

Melissa Gilbert Reacts to Megyn Kelly’s Threat Against "Little House on the Prairie" Reboot
by Matt Webb Mitovich
January 30, 2025


Melissa Gilbert has addressed Megyn Kelly‘s concern about Netflix’s recently announced "Little House on the Prairie" series being, as they say, “woke.”

Shortly after the reboot was announced on Wednesday, Kelly, a former Fox News vet, called out Netflix on X, saying, “If you wokeify [sic] Little House on the Prairie I will make it my singular mission to absolutely ruin your project.”



After getting wind of Kelly’s threatened “mission,” Gilbert — who of course played Laura on the series — posted to Instagram, inviting Kelly to “watch the original again.”

She noted: “TV doesn’t get too much more ‘woke’ than we did. We tackled: racism, addiction, nativism, antisemitism, misogyny, rape, spousal abuse and every other ‘woke’ topic you can think of. Thank you very much.”

https://tvline.com/news/melissa-gilbert-megyn-kelly-woke-little-house-on-the-prairie-reboot-threat-1235404256/

Lol! Melissa's right and that's why I always thought the show was weird. Some of that stuff had no business being on a show based on the Little House books.

definitely bad idea

Melissa Gilbert Reacts to Megyn Kelly’s Threat Against "Little House on the Prairie" Reboot
by Matt Webb Mitovich
January 30, 2025


Melissa Gilbert has addressed Megyn Kelly‘s concern about Netflix’s recently announced "Little House on the Prairie" series being, as they say, “woke.”

Shortly after the reboot was announced on Wednesday, Kelly, a former Fox News vet, called out Netflix on X, saying, “If you wokeify [sic] Little House on the Prairie I will make it my singular mission to absolutely ruin your project.”



After getting wind of Kelly’s threatened “mission,” Gilbert — who of course played Laura on the series — posted to Instagram, inviting Kelly to “watch the original again.”

She noted: “TV doesn’t get too much more ‘woke’ than we did. We tackled: racism, addiction, nativism, antisemitism, misogyny, rape, spousal abuse and every other ‘woke’ topic you can think of. Thank you very much.”

https://tvline.com/news/melissa-gilbert-megyn-kelly-woke-little-house-on-the-prairie-reboot-threat-1235404256/

Well, there is good woke and bad woke and the original was good woke.

Instead of a reboot:

I would be more interested to see the surviving original actors reprise their roles, with their characters moved up in time several decades -- to match the number of years since the series ended.

It could be just a series of specials. With some exceptions like Shannen Doherty and the guy who played Percival, most of the younger actors are still with us. I'd love to see them in a movie based in later years forward from the original LHoP series, same for the Waltons actors.

Lol! Melissa's right and that's why I always thought the show was weird. Some of that stuff had no business being on a show based on the Little House books.

Swearing is where we draw the line. :lol:

Instead of a reboot:

I would be more interested to see the surviving original actors reprise their roles, with their characters moved up in time several decades -- to match the number of years since the series ended.

It could be just a series of specials. With some exceptions like Shannen Doherty and the guy who played Percival, most of the younger actors are still with us. I'd love to see them in a movie based in later years forward from the original LHoP series, same for the Waltons actors.

I actually suggested this, trying to start a write-in campaign to Trip Friendly, who owns the rights. I did mail him a letter (his address is available online but I was advised to not include it in message board posts etc.) pointing out that Melissa Gilbert is now the age that Laura was when she wrote the books, and that she could star in such a series, and received no reply. I did receive a bit of a scolding from Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson) for daring to think such a scheme would work but that's the only response I got from anyone connected with the show.

Here is the thread where I made the suggestion: https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=460817 If anyone wants I can also post the text of my letter.

As for the Waltons, they screwed up BIG TIME. They did make serious errors on the show, such as 1940 occurring twice and bringing back an undeniably dead character, but they went all out in the TV movies. By the time of the movie set in 1963, the timeline was off by at least 15 years. Elizabeth should have been at least 35 and closer to 36 by 1963 and some of the older characters shouldn't have been around by then at all. Mary Ellen, who was told that due to an accident she couldn't or shouldn't bear children, showed up with about three children which were apparently hers by birth but no sign or mention of her older son John Curtis. Ben and Cindy's daughter Virginia was presented as an only child, where actually they had a son named Charlie who was born at the end of one of the movies--what happened to him?--and probably many other errors. At one point John Walton said his father had been gone for 15 years or something when he died in 1941, well over 20 years previously. I'm not sure how far off they were by the 1969 movie, but way off to say the least.

Megyn Kelly is an attention-seeking charlatan and sow.

What's so sad is that if Melissa Gilbert hadn't tweeted what she did and the new show exactly like the original, the sow would've been raging about how woke the reboot is because of its multi-ethnic casting and episodes around social justice.

This is how these charlatans work. They put this stuff out there to trick their followers unfamiliar with an IP into thinking that it never had any minorities or themes around racism and LGBT to begin with. They do this to encourage their followers to review bombing the IP, pretending to be outraged fans of the IP when they never watched it in first run. You will see people doing this for stuff like Star Trek or The Connors, as in, "I used to love Roseanne growing up and it was never woke, but now it's gone woke because there's a gay kid and an interracial marriage."

Well, there is good woke and bad woke and the original was good woke.

There's no such thing as wokeness. "Woke" is what cowardly Neo Nazis and white supremacists use to complain about seeing minorities and women in prominent roles. It's the same as when they keep dropping "DEI" whenever there's a black person or woman in charge somewhere. Instead of admitting their hate, they hide behind DEI/woke code words. It's disgusting.

To get the thread back on topic, I would be more worried about the reboot picking up where the show left off, and that's relying on cheap shock value for ratings. The show died with May We Make Them Proud and just went darker, more cynical and more mean-spirited towards the end.

This is how these charlatans work. They put this stuff out there to trick their followers unfamiliar with an IP into thinking that it never had any minorities or themes around racism and LGBT to begin with.

I watched every episode of Little House and although many minorities were represented, which was authentic to the time and place, there was no LGBT. There was on Dr. Quinn and also the town's reaction to a black student was much more drastic on Dr. Quinn than on Little House, with terms used both verbally and written that one TV station chose to bleep or blur. Sorry I can't remember the name of the station but it was geared to family programming. They also bleeped terms on The Waltons.

I watched every episode of Little House and although many minorities were represented, which was authentic to the time and place, there was no LGBT. There was on Dr. Quinn and also the town's reaction to a black student was much more drastic on Dr. Quinn than on Little House, with terms used both verbally and written that one TV station chose to bleep or blur. Sorry I can't remember the name of the station but it was geared to family programming. They also bleeped terms on The Waltons.

The point of my comment wasn't to say that Little House on the Prairie had LGBT themes but to expose how Megyn Kelly and these professional trolls work in general. I know LHOTP didn't have LGBT. However, it had an interfaith marriage (Jewish/Protestant), called out racial bigotry (Mrs. Oleson), had episodes about the struggles of blacks and minorities, talked about the immigrant experience and advocated for the disabled. If the reboot had these exact themes, Megyn Kelly would be calling it woke to encourage her followers to review bomb them. Like, for instance, say there was a new version of Mrs. Oleson in the reboot, who was just as bigoted as the original. Megyn Kelly would lie to her fanbase that Mrs. Oleson was a pillar of Christianity in the original but had been turned into a racist Karen because "the woke" hate white successful people. Then her fans would've started review bombing the reboot and even harassing and trolling Melissa Gilbert and anyone connected to the show on social media until forced to quit. The irony is that none of them watched the original or will have seen the reboot.

Again, this is how these scumbags operate. I've seen it more times than I can count.

Original "Little House on the Prairie" Cast Defend Netflix Reboot after Fan Backlash
by Jack Dunn
Feb. 5, 2025


Original “Little House on the Prairie” actors Dean Butler and Alison Arngrim are quelling concerns that the recently announced reboot will tarnish the legacy of the beloved 1974 drama.

In a recent interview with Remind, Arngrim (Nellie Oleson) said she’s heard two distinct fan reactions to the reboot: “People are like, ‘Oh my God, yay, a reboot. It’s the greatest thing that ever happened. The second coming.’ Or [they say], ‘No, no, no, not a reboot. The show is perfect. Don’t touch it.’ And they’re getting upset about it.”




Arngrim clarified the new series is “not really like a reboot” since it will be more faithful to Laura Wilder’s original books than the TV show. She hopes this fact will calm the nerves of “purists”.

“So concerns that they’re going to run amok away from the books and make it into something weird, not happening,” Arngrim said. She added that if anything seemed out of place in development, executive producer Trip Friendly, the son of original producer Ed Friendly, would “pull the plug on it” before it reached the viewers.




Arngrim ended her interview by saying that “none” of the original cast will return for the reboot, but added she is open to a cameo.

“I have been joking for years that I’m finally old enough to play Mrs. Oleson, so call me,” she said.




Butler, who played Almanzo in the original series, said the show isn’t attempting to recreate the work of original series creator Michael Landon, and instead, will deliver a “different” experience for a modern audience.

“It’s never going to be what Michael did,” Butler said. “Michael was Michael. He was a unique creative presence with this magical touch with an audience. And look, the creative team on the new show may also have a magical touch with an audience, but it’s a different touch and it will be different.”

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/original-little-house-on-the-prairie-actors-defend-netflix-reboot-fan-backlash-1236298407/

Netflix's Reboot Of Beloved Western Show And How It Compares To The Books Explained By Original Star (https://screenrant.com/little-house-on-the-prairie-netflix-reboot-alison-arngrim-books-comparison-response/)

Netflix's plans to reboot a classic Western show (https://screenrant.com/db/tv-show/little-house-on-the-prairie-1974/), and how the reboot will compare to the original books is explained by the series' original star.

Melissa Gilbert Says "Little House on the Prairie" Reboot “Will Do Things We Didn’t Get to do So Easily in the ’70s”
by Lynette Rice
February 6, 2025


TV’s original Laura Ingalls is speaking out about Netflix’s plans to reboot "Little House on the Prairie".

In an interview with EW, Melissa Gilbert, aka the Laura in the long-running NBC series from 1974-1984, said, “there’s room in the Little House universe for all different kinds of stories to be told, just like there was always room in the Little Women universe to keep retelling that story.”



“These are classic stories, and no one’s done it where they hewed to the books completely,” Gilbert said.

“[The original] was Michael Landon’s interpretation, and now it’s time for someone else’s interpretation. And I think there’s plenty of room for that. And I think there’s a lot of other stories to mine beyond that. So I think this opens the door in a lot of ways for all kinds of Little House on the Prairie projects.”





Gilbert went on to tell EW that the new iteration will “do things that we didn’t get to do necessarily so easily in the ’70s.” She’s referring to the diversity in casting that the new series hopes to achieve, but is also responding to a recent tweet by Megyn Kelly who lamented the possibility of Netflix “woke-fying” the beloved franchise.

“Did you watch the original? Have you seen the episode ‘The Wisdom of Solomon’? I don’t think we got more woke than that,” Gilbert told EW. “Did she see any of the episodes we did about drug addiction, about nativism, about Native Americans, chauvinists, anti-semitism, rape, child abuse, child neglect, industrialization?

I mean, we covered everything that’s going on in the world still. It’s not my job to defend the word woke, but to my mind, it just means compassion for all. I don’t understand why that’s a bad thing, and I don’t think anyone can ever convince me of that.”

https://deadline.com/2025/02/melissa-gilbert-little-house-on-the-prairie-reboot-reaction-1236280327/

Melissa Gilbert Explains Why she Responded to Megyn Kelly
by Raechal Shewfelt
February 11, 2025


Melissa Gilbert is protective of "Little House on the Prairie" and felt that she had to respond when Megyn Kelly threatened to "ruin" the planned reboot.

"I really wasn't gonna have any comment, and I support the project," Gilbert said Tuesday on "The View". "It's just like, you know, different versions of Little Women. People's interpretation of a classic story. But, when she said that...it shocked me, because you have to have watched Little House on the Prairie to understand what you're talking about."



When co-host Joy Behar complimented "Little House", Gilbert thanked her.

“I loved being a part of it, and I do think there’s room for interpretation," said the actress, who has continued to be a part of fan conventions and reunions of much of the cast over the years.

https://ew.com/why-melissa-gilbert-responded-to-megyn-kelly-little-house-comment-10476153

Netflix's Little House on the Prairie reboot casts 4 key roles (https://tvline.com/casting-news/little-house-on-the-prairie-laura-cast-netflix-reboot-1235442668/#:~:text=Alice%20Halsey%2C%20whose%20previous%20TV,Fitzgerald%20(Palm%20Royale)%20will%20play)

Alice Halsey, whose previous TV credits include playing daughter to Brie Larson in Apple TV+'s Lessons in Chemistry, will play wee Laura; Skywalker Hughes (Joe Pickett) will fill the role of older sister Mary; and Luke Bracey (the Aussie star of 2015's Point Break remake) and Crosby Fitzgerald (Palm Royale) will play ...

As stated above, the cast has been chosen, and where is Baby Carrie? They say they are sticking to the books and Carrie was in the story beginning with the first book. Do not argue with me; I have read them three times! (In real life Carrie was born in Kansas so maybe they are going with that but in the book Carrie was already a few years old in Kansas.) Also, Mary's hair is darker than Laura's so I hope they know what they're doing. The cast at least appear to be white with no tattoos or body piercings so that's a relief anyway. (The Ingalls family really was white.)

No stainx!!

Netflix's Little House On The Prairie reboot adds Jocko Sims, Warren Christie and Alyssa Wapanatâhk (https://deadline.com/2025/05/little-house-on-the-prairie-reboot-jocko-sims-warren-christie-1236410000/)

Meegwun Fairbrother, Wren Zhawenim Gotts, Xander Cole are also boarding the Netflix Laura Ingalls Wilder adaptation. Sims and Christie will play characters from the books while Gotts, Fairbrother, Wapanatâhk and Cole will play newly created characters, members of the same extended Osage family.

Netflix's Little House on the Prairie reboot releases its first cast photos as it begins production (https://deadline.com/2025/06/little-house-on-the-prairie-ingalls-family-photo-netflix-1236429829/)

Production began Monday on Netflix's adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic semi-autobiographical novels.

Boo hi$$!!!

7 Join "Little House on the Prairie" Reboot
by Rosy Cordero
July 17, 2025


The recurring cast of Netflix‘s "Little House on the Prairie" reboot is growing with seven new additions:


- Barrett Doss (Station 19) will play Emily Henderson, a charming woman who excels at interacting with people and handling numbers, which enables her to run the General Store.

Emily kindly takes in Caleb, an orphan boy who wanders into town.



- Mary Holland (Ghosts) will play Jemma James, the wife of Eli James.

Jemma is a confident woman who has an air of big city and is the town’s busybody.



- Michael Hough (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) will play Eli James, Jemma James’ husband.

Eli works for the railroad and is very supportive of the newcomers arriving in Independence.



- Kowen Cadorath (SkyMed) will play Caleb, a skinny, prairie handsome, pre-teen who has been orphaned and doesn’t say much.

Emily, who runs the General Store, takes Caleb in and gives him a job.



- Thosh Collins (IT: Welcome to Derry) will play Louis, White Sun’s good-natured and levelheaded cousin.



- Maclean Fish (Shoresy) will play Adam Scott, who is boyish and handsome but soft.

He appears as though he hasn’t had a day of hardship in his life.



- Rebecca Amzallag (Titans) will play Lacey Aubert, a beautiful and happily widowed outcast who owns a card room and bar on the edge of town.

https://deadline.com/2025/07/barrett-doss-7-cast-little-house-on-the-prairie-reboot-1236461477/

Boo hiss........... B00 Hi$$!!

7 Join "Little House on the Prairie" Reboot
by Rosy Cordero
July 17, 2025


The recurring cast of Netflix‘s "Little House on the Prairie" reboot is growing with seven new additions:


- Barrett Doss (Station 19) will play Emily Henderson, a charming woman who excels at interacting with people and handling numbers, which enables her to run the General Store.

Emily kindly takes in Caleb, an orphan boy who wanders into town.



- Mary Holland (Ghosts) will play Jemma James, the wife of Eli James.

Jemma is a confident woman who has an air of big city and is the town’s busybody.



- Michael Hough (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) will play Eli James, Jemma James’ husband.

Eli works for the railroad and is very supportive of the newcomers arriving in Independence.



- Kowen Cadorath (SkyMed) will play Caleb, a skinny, prairie handsome, pre-teen who has been orphaned and doesn’t say much.

Emily, who runs the General Store, takes Caleb in and gives him a job.



- Thosh Collins (IT: Welcome to Derry) will play Louis, White Sun’s good-natured and levelheaded cousin.



- Maclean Fish (Shoresy) will play Adam Scott, who is boyish and handsome but soft.

He appears as though he hasn’t had a day of hardship in his life.



- Rebecca Amzallag (Titans) will play Lacey Aubert, a beautiful and happily widowed outcast who owns a card room and bar on the edge of town.

https://deadline.com/2025/07/barrett-doss-7-cast-little-house-on-the-prairie-reboot-1236461477/

Then the creators of this show STRAIGHT UP LIED! They are not sticking by the books! I just read these books last summer for the third time and NONE of these people appear in ANY of the books, even as a passing mention. There is a Mr. Scott in Little House on the Prairie, but he does not fit the description of the Scott above.

Netflix is clearly high on its reboot of "Little House on the Prairie" as the streamer said Tuesday it has renewed the drama for a second season ahead of its series debut.

The series will launch July 9.

https://deadline.com/2026/03/little-house-on-the-prairie-renewed-season-2-netflix-1236742677/

Is there going to be a little vegan on the prairie?

Who names their daughter "Skywalker"?

A Richard head.