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Netflix is rebooting the classic series Little House on the Prairie, which first ran from 1974 to 1983, and per Deadline, seven more actors have just been added to the cast of the revival series. Among those cast in recurring roles in Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie is Barrett Doss, who starred in ABC’s Station 19 from 2018 to 2024.

Additionally, Mary Holland,Michael Hough,Kowen Cadorath (SkyMed),Thosh Collins,Maclean Fish (Shoresy),and Rebecca Amzallag (Titans)were also cast in recurring roles in the new series.

Doss Will Run the Town’s General Store

Doss is set to play Emily Henderson, whose people and number skills land her a job running the General Store. She also takes in an orphan boy named Caleb, who wanders into town. Caleb will be played by Cadorath and is described as a “skinny, prairie handsome pre-teen who has been orphaned and doesn’t say much.

A little over a year after ABC’s Station 19, created by Stacy McKee, aired its final episode, one of its main stars has landed her first small-screen role since then. Barrett Doss is that star, and she has been tapped to appear in the upcoming Little House on the Prairie reboot from Netflix. Set in Seattle, Station 19 is the second spin-off of Grey's Anatomy, after Private Practice, and focuses on the lives of the heroic men and women at Seattle Fire Station 19. The procedural ran from March 22, 2018, to May 30, 2024, comprising seven seasons and 105 episodes.

According to Deadline, Doss will recur as Emily Henderson, a charming woman who is great 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. The Station 19 alum was added to the Little House on the Prairie series alongside six others,...

Exclusive: The recurring cast of Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie reboot is growing by seven with the addition of Barrett Doss, Mary Holland, Michael Hough, Kowen Cadorath (SkyMed), Thosh Collins, Maclean Fish (Shoresy) and Rebecca Amzallag (Titans).

Based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic semi-autobiographical novels, the new series follows the Ingalls family, which will be played by Alice Halsey (Laura), Luke Bracey (Charles), Crosby Fitzgerald (Caroline) and Skywalker Hughes (Mary). Series leads also include Jocko Sims, Warren Christie, Meegwun Fairbrother, Wren Zhawenim Gotts, Xander Cole and Alyssa Wapanatâhk, with Xander Cole in a recurring role.

Described as part hopeful family drama, part epic survival tale and part origin story of the American West, the new Little House on the Prairie is brought to life by showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine and CBS Studios.

Turner-Smith and Cox team up as journalists investigating a presidential candidate. But there is none of the insider authenticity of director Amy Rice’s earlier Obama documentary

Film-maker Amy Rice spent two years on the campaign trail with Barack Obama to make a 2009 fly-on-the wall documentary. So it’s massively disappointing that her new fictional political thriller is so insipid and unsatisfying, and completely lacks any kind of authentic insider knowledge of Machiavellian political skullduggery. It’s as generic as they come, though British actor Jodie Turner-Smith is brilliant as a rookie reporter for the fictional Washington Chronicle who uncovers a scandal with the potential to blow open the presidential race.

Turner-Smith’s character, Eli James, is increasingly frustrated at having to write clickbait lifestyle articles such as “college dorm must-haves”. But when she uncovers a lottery scandal, she teams up with the paper’s Pulitzer-winning columnist Nicholas Booker. Their relationship is nicely played,...

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You can’t fault Peacock for its timing, dropping The Independent just a week before the all-important 2022 midterm elections. Nor can you quibble with the thriller’s grounding in our contemporary political reality, in which an inexperienced celebrity candidate can vault from long shot to frontrunner simply by offering a seemingly viable exit from America’s entrenched two-party stasis, with one side fueling the country’s rage while the other “sits on its hands and whines about it.” Whether election-fatigued audiences will have an appetite for this slick but superficial depiction of moral elasticity in politics and beleaguered truth in journalism remains an open question.

This first narrative feature from documentary director Amy Rice (HBO’s By the People: The Election of Barack Obama) is sturdy enough by the standards of most direct-to-streaming movie premieres. But that’s admittedly not a high bar to clear.