PBS Kids series Lyla in the Loop will debut in early 2024, with the Mighty Picnic and Pipeline Studios-produced series set to tackle the use of real-world AI tools and release digital episodes incorporating AI-assisted conversation.
Hailing from Mighty Picnic founder and Emmy-winning producer Dave Peth (Odd Squad, Peg + Cat, Scribbles and Ink, Design Squad), the animated series is set to premiere on Feb. 5, 2024 in both English and Spanish. Funded by grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the U.S. Department of Education as part of its Ready To Learn Initiative, the series will follow the adventures of a 7-year-old girl named Lyla Loops (voiced by Liyou Abere), who lives in Philadelphia with her best friend, family, and “fantastical” sidekick Stu (Izzy Woodbury).
“Lyla is curious and resourceful, and when it comes to figuring out solutions to everyday problems, she doesn’t give up, even when it takes several tries to get it right,...
Hailing from Mighty Picnic founder and Emmy-winning producer Dave Peth (Odd Squad, Peg + Cat, Scribbles and Ink, Design Squad), the animated series is set to premiere on Feb. 5, 2024 in both English and Spanish. Funded by grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the U.S. Department of Education as part of its Ready To Learn Initiative, the series will follow the adventures of a 7-year-old girl named Lyla Loops (voiced by Liyou Abere), who lives in Philadelphia with her best friend, family, and “fantastical” sidekick Stu (Izzy Woodbury).
“Lyla is curious and resourceful, and when it comes to figuring out solutions to everyday problems, she doesn’t give up, even when it takes several tries to get it right,...
- 8/2/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This barely feature-length spin-off from the TV cartoon takes our gang to the racetrack and sends them skidding into tedium
They sure do churn em out. Here’s another episode of Nickelodeon’s animated TV show about a team of rescue dogs, jazzed up and padded out into a 48-minute cinema package. As a parent of a toddler, I’m not immune to Paw Patrol pester power. But I find the cinema outings soulless and depressing: three-year-olds disappearing into gawping trances, parents into the glow of their phones.
The new film feels like a cut-price knockoff of Pixar’s Cars, with a dull plot about a rally tournament where the star driver is a flashy but nice kid called the Whoosh (voiced by Joseph Motiki) and the Paw Patrol gang’s job is to crew the pitstop during the race. The villain is mega-sneaky racing driver Cheetah (Addison Holley), who...
They sure do churn em out. Here’s another episode of Nickelodeon’s animated TV show about a team of rescue dogs, jazzed up and padded out into a 48-minute cinema package. As a parent of a toddler, I’m not immune to Paw Patrol pester power. But I find the cinema outings soulless and depressing: three-year-olds disappearing into gawping trances, parents into the glow of their phones.
The new film feels like a cut-price knockoff of Pixar’s Cars, with a dull plot about a rally tournament where the star driver is a flashy but nice kid called the Whoosh (voiced by Joseph Motiki) and the Paw Patrol gang’s job is to crew the pitstop during the race. The villain is mega-sneaky racing driver Cheetah (Addison Holley), who...
- 1/23/2020
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
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