Netflix knows, just like every other one of the biggest and best streaming services on the market, that it has to find ways to create franchises and series that people want to not just watch, but keep coming back to. After all, that's not only its stated mission, but also its best route to keeping its shareholders happy and paid-up. This means that picking up intellectual property with established fans is sort of its dream scenario, if it can do so affordably.
For obvious reasons, I don't have any insight into what Netflix paid for the rights to Little House on the Prairie, but given how beloved the novels are in the US, it wouldn't surprise me if it was quite a chunky deal. Now we're getting closer to the series actually arriving, and it just got another teaser underlining how charming it's likely to be when it does start streaming.
