Remake of Little House on the Prairie is Coming to Netflix

[icecream]

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

https://tvline.com/news/little-house...ix-1235403584/

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

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

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...remake-netflix

[TSMIV]

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

[JamesG]

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-gilb...at-1235404256/

[TSMIV]

Originally Posted by JamesG

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-gilb...at-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.

[Chocolate Moose]

definitely bad idea

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

Originally Posted by JamesG

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-gilb...at-1235404256/

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

[biffbronson]

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.

[JamesG]

Originally Posted by TSMIV

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.

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

Originally Posted by biffbronson

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...d.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.

[dee2364]

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."

[dee2364]

Originally Posted by Cori aka ChrisSCrush

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.

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

Originally Posted by dee2364

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.

[dee2364]

Originally Posted by Cori aka ChrisSCrush

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.

[JamesG]

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/ori...sh-1236298407/