Dean Butler shared his thoughts on the news of Netflix's upcoming 'Little House on the Prairie' reboot, including why he thinks it will "never" be like the original series, on which he played Almanzo Wilder from 1979 until 1983.

News of the reboot comes days after Nielsen’s streaming report for 2024, which revealed that the original Little House is one of the most popular “legacy titles” on streaming, logging over 13 billion viewing minutes on Peacock. For Netflix, a Little House reboot will be like striking gold. Ballerina Farm must be shaking in her egg apron.

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,

More than 40 years since the original series concluded after nine seasons in 1983, Netflix has greenlit a reboot of the 19th century period western series, Little House on the Prairie. According to the streaming platform, the new show will be "part hopeful, family drama, part epic survival tale and part origin story of the American West."

A Little House on the Prairie reboot is heading to our TV screens in a “reimagined” way! Fans received the news in January 2025 that “a new generation will have its own version” of the “treasured novels” on Netflix.

And don’t worry — the new show is not actually a reboot of the original 1974 series. Rather, its a re-imagining. Or, as Arngrim put it, “This [show] is part of the Laura Ing

It was recently announced that Netflix would be rebooting the beloved 1970s western series Members of the original cast of Little House on the Prairie are reacting to news of the upcoming reboot. After Netflix announced that a new Little House on the Prairie series was in the works,