One present on Peacock had over 13 billion minutes of view time in 2024 — even though it’s been round since 1974. Imagine it or not, the title of most-watched Peacock present belongs to none apart from Little Home on the Prairie.
This charming, beloved set of eight books by Laura Ingalls Wilder gained a TV adaptation within the mid-Nineteen Seventies (Wilder’s books first started releasing within the Thirties, and coated her childhood within the late 1800s).
The ebook collection follows Wilder’s whole childhood together with her household rising up and shifting across the U.S. as settlers. Practically each ebook is ready in a model new location, as her household ceaselessly moved to buy new land and pioneer the frontier.
The unique TV collection begins across the fourth ebook in Wilder’s collection, when she was round 8 years outdated. The present spanned for a full 9 seasons, capturing the hearts of viewers in every single place simply as Wilder’s unique books did.
Now, fifty years after its launch, Little Home on the Prairie nonetheless holds the crown for Peacock. It’s not too shocking that this meant different streaming service giants needed to select up the collection for itself; and Netflix determined to take action in a way more unique approach.
Quite than negotiate for the rights to have the unique Little Home on the Prairie collection on Netflix, the corporate determined to make its very personal 2024 reboot impressed by the unique TV present. It will carry a high-quality, fashionable TV replace to an outdated favourite.
The plan is to create a household drama collection that follows the tales within the unique Little Home on the Prairie books, full with a frontier-style exploration that rivals the likes of different Netflix Westerns which have gained reputation lately.
As a result of the Netflix collection is a reboot — reasonably than choosing up the place the unique TV collection left off — it’s seemingly that we’ll see an entire retelling of Wilder’s tales, although there’s no saying but precisely the place they’ll decide up. The unique Little Home on the Prairie TV present selected to start the collection through the fourth ebook as a result of it takes place at an age the place Wilder and her sister have extra interplay with different characters, and still have extra adventures on the Western frontier.
The primary ebook, Little Home within the Large Woods, begins when Wilder is simply 4 years outdated, which makes it barely much less seemingly that we’ll see an adaptation start through the first ebook. Nevertheless, there’s actually loads of room for narrative setups and flashbacks to happen concerning occasions from the primary ebook. Netflix has loads of supplies to work with, and followers are excited to see which tales of Wilder’s they’ll select to inform — and the way they plan on making the variation completely different from the unique collection.
There’s no set launch date for the brand new Little Home on the Prairie simply but, but it surely has been confirmed to be in growth.